this post is rather a longer photoreport of AMFO 2009 in Trencin, local photography contest, mainly for amateurs..sadly also for amateurs among judges...
for slovak review of this contest, check the first number of TAMaSEM magazine









funny fact about this one, I'd been talking to the phone too, thus I was able to take a shot, does that make me a better photographer? :)



Monothematic shots below. I mean all you can see is a bunch of photographers shoting everything...








my favourite one


awsome..just the man (right side) kinda didn't want to get off the place :(









the anarchy of shoting everthing that moves continued


also with me. I'd like to see those photos, sadly I have no idea where to look for them.


some local television went throught all this with us

EXAMS
I'd be learning instead of this. It's only the feeling. The feeling of lazyness. I'm kinda sick of seeing the stupidity all around.

Me and Rado went to Brno Car show. No reason, we're not really interested in cars. Just made a day off.

"WhateverWherever" - czech train rails at car showroom


czech police had a lot to present, cars, uniforms and even crash simulators (which I couldn't get shot of, because of a bunch of people crowding by


camera phones - gotta love it


ehm, well, we did enjoy atleast something :)

belly-dancer doing her make-up. It actually was dark like in hell there.

no need to look for intersting people. Sooner or later they will come to you. Or to the belly-dancers boudoir.


slight backfocus ( I mean I wanted to capture the photographer )



it's allways funny watching some photographers. I bet I look just like that...



there's something missing. or somebody. Somebody's legs stepping up


wandering around the builing site, making photos of eachother


and even posing :) thank you for that


office buildings at the other side, probably during some lunch break. Those roofs and sidewalks near the buildings were quite occupied.


getting higher and higher, the roof of third floor


should have retouched the rails


Rado revising photos at 10th floor (or somewhere that high)


panorama view from building site - Brno

behold! no, just kiddin. Went out for some portrait work. Let this be a post to learn from then.
but before, I need, well more like I want, to learn some group portraits. I mean two and more people. Any ideas where to start?
for you folk: don't you have leave home without a bouncer. My mistake, but what the hell, atleast I won't forget in future.

preseting the magical La Fe Verte (aka Paťa)





quite fun, the fact that I was standing on a glass roof, It is little wrong to take pictures from above the model, because it would make her look smaller, than she actualy is. Thus wanting to capture her figure (damn good looking in the corset btw) I needed to get the edge of the roof off the shot.


a typically bad pise..leaned strait to camera is allways bad, wonder why I even took this. Still, see the edge of the roof...it's not in line with eyes..or even head. Keep that in mind (I'm actualy writing this for my self too :) )


some "behind the scene"...not really behind. Just wanter to show her more, let's crazier side


remeber this? she actualy had him/it on her bag


she's a nice girl. Just loves to show of her other personalities :)

like dancing on a roof in middle of a forest

you may even obtain a rejective gesture, if you don't know when not to press the trigger



I think Paťka got bored a bit while switching lenses




I personaly like the weak shadow from the leaves on her hair. Some could use this more creativly, flash used, to soften the harsh sun light. Wrong background nevertheless.


Horror Show, as La Fee named this series

not many details for this
flash used on every single, bounced from ceiling

made the "grid" more intense, which wasn't the primary goal


yet the vision couldn't be done without it. My vision. It's symbolic.


holding her "bad side" away



thought, she escaped :)
I like the framing here veeery much. Flash bouncing here was quite a hell of job, could use some more from bottomside.


and probably didn't like the change of location. But still on the roof. Kinda fallen roof.


and some toned BWs






at the end, a big thanks to La Fee, for being my model for a while. It keeps me improving every day.