Andriy Zolotoiy Photography Blog

Lightroom 4 is buggy

admin — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 13:48:52 +0000

Lightroom 4 seems to hang on me quite often during raw photo selection / ratings where LR3 used to work just fine. First major version of the software always have some issues that just cannot be tested by a single company, when they release application they pretty much letting world users to crash test their product. There is so many possible combinations of hardware, OSs, camera files etc. which makes it completely impossible to say that software is 100% bug free and will work on every single platform.

World Show

admin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 03:31:53 +0000

Here are few shots from World Show by Orange Tree Beauty Salon. Body painting by Natasha Kudashkina.

Published: Eternal Commitment in VEUX Magazine

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:04:57 +0000

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

Brides

admin — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:24:15 +0000

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.

The Glowsticks. Part II

admin — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:11:08 +0000

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.

From the archives: magnificent collar

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 01:25:57 +0000

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.

New color creatives

admin — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:23:37 +0000

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.

How do you do your chores?

admin — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 11:26:52 +0000

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

From the archives: Mosh

admin — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 15:26:32 +0000

Model: amazing Mosh
Clothing: Healing Heart Designs

Expressions

admin — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:08:05 +0000

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