Andriy Zolotoiy Photography Blog

Occasional writings from Toronto photographer

Feb-7-2012

Published: Eternal Commitment in VEUX Magazine

This editorial was shot very recently, we barely made it for Valentine’s issue of VEUX magazine. The studio was pretty much empty so we improvised a bit to create different environments for story moods. First spread was shot with umbrella key light, and the rest with just 8.5” reflectors and grids. I also employed here colour gels; they are life savers when interior decoration is lacking character.

Model: Ada Adams
MUA: Linda Radan

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Posted under beauty photography, fashion photography
Jan-30-2012

Brides

Just gotten my hands to edit few photos from Orange Tree Beauty Show back in April. Decided to give these little retro look. This particular series were challenging due to white on white scenario, showing details is important while not blowing out whole thing.

Orange Tree Beauty Show

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Posted under beauty photography, fashion photography
Sep-24-2011

The Glowsticks. Part II

Over a year ago I shot very interesting duo The Glowsticks. New band manager recently contacted me to shoot them again. The band has new members now and getting them all together for the photoshoot was quite a lengthy process. We started the shoot later in the day than we expected, surroundings were getting dark pretty fast as we were shooting under Gardiner expressway downtown Toronto.

This was first photoshoot where I used new Nikon D7000. Camera proven to be working properly without a hitch. I used 85mm f/1.8 for individual shots and 16-35mm f/4 for group photos. Everything was lit with two SB-600 flashes in TTL mode fired via built-in commander.

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Posted under music photography
Sep-12-2011

From the archives: magnificent collar

Very old photo here. I remember hair styling took over 3 hours here and still wasn’t finished. At the end I had about 15 minutes to shoot.

Hypercube shoot 2

Posted under beauty photography
Sep-8-2011

New color creatives

It’s been a long time since shot something like this. The secret ingredients here are lotsa makeup powder, some semi-liquid stuff, macro lens and hard colored light. I normally just use regular reflectors with grids and colour gels. See more on flickr.

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Posted under beauty photography
Aug-27-2011

How do you do your chores?

Be fashionable, be happy, consider it the exercise. More here.

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Posted under fashion photography
Aug-9-2011

From the archives: Mosh

Model: amazing Mosh
Clothing: Healing Heart Designs

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Posted under fashion photography
Jul-28-2011

Expressions

I find it fun to randomly look at these. They cause some emotions, I’m just not sure which ones.

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Posted under portrait photography
Jul-28-2011

Nikon 70-300mm AF-S VR F4.5-5.6 for portraits

While some might say that this lens is no good for portraiture I will disagree. Certainly, it’s not razor sharp as 70-200 VR2 but you can still get good subject isolation at f/5.6 and pretty decent sharpness.

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Jaynee N McKenzie

The lens is flare resistant, shooting against setting sun didn’t cause any issues.

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Posted under gear review, portrait photography
Jul-26-2011

Nikon D700 sync speed override

There is an option in D700 (and many other Nikon cameras) to set flash sync speed to 1/320 sec. While originally intended to be used with built-in flash it works for me with Alien Bees / Einstein and Cybersync triggers. Getting to 1/320 sec. allows to cut significant portion of bright daylight without closing aperture too much. While I was shooting outside under midday sun I could still see a little bit of darkening beside one edge of the frame but nothing too serious to even crop it. I’ll try this next time with D300 and see if APS-C size sensor makes any difference.

Posted under gear review, photography