Enjoying

the sunset over Skopje

By Ciprian Pantea

We have some moments that last for a few minutes but we remember them forever. Sunsets, sunrises are one of those romantic moments that you enjoy them silently waiting for a short day by day miracle.

Our purpose was clear, it followed the teaching photography path. All we had to do was set the ISO to 100 and play with the WB (white balance). Practice and play with the light and enjoy the clear sky though the camera lens for those seconds ....

It was a good experience since we shoot really good photos!

Enjoy the photos !

Look at

autumn though the lens of a Minolta Dimange Xt

By Ciprian Pantea

The main stereotype about photographers is that a good photographer must have a expensive camera and huge lens. The only think that a professional camera can provide is a high resolution picture.

This is not enough! Photography implies that imagination and a camera can't give you that. The root of imagination is drawn from the will to act, and the next steps towards achieving it involve deep thinking, observing, as well as analyzing the environment around you.

Why do we have to invent obstacles towards achieving our goals and passions?!? Why to build walls around us when all we have to do is act.Small steps towards achieving the big goal!!!

I don't need a huge camera to create beautiful pictures. This a precious lesson that we all have to understand. A lesson that we can create something - even with a nonprofessional camera .

Thank you Веле for showing us that art comes with dedication!

Enjoy Веле's pictures!!!

Let's learn

how to shoot a portrait

By Ciprian Pantea

This post will be dedicated to two students that sacrificed their morning sleep to come and study photography in MKC center.

This makes me think of a something important - if you really want to achieve something you have to quit some of your time dedicated to your most wanted habits to learn, to study, to think, to create.

Every action must be dedicated to a purpose and passion to everything you do. If you don't have passion is better to find it. If you don't find it is better to search for it again. Passion is the way to performance.

Taking photos is all about discovering the nearby universe and the camera is just an excuse to interact with people, to cross the cultural barriers and make new possible friends. And what is a cultural barrier - another self-made human prison - prisoners of our own proud and social status. Just think about this on your daily walk on the streets of your city. Think about how much we lose just by simply ignoring each other.

What we learned in this session was to take pictures, smile and ask nicely - May I take a photo of you?!?

The result is always positive!

Special thanks to Andrea and Bojan!

Enjoy!

Photowalk

in Стара Чаршија

By Ciprian Pantea

We opened the new activities in Photogr8 Club with a photo walk in Стара Чаршија. All those people passionate about photography. All those people with a high desire to know and to discover new pictures in an old all known place.

They had the opportunity to meet a powerful tool, capable of surprising reality in new ways, capable of reshaping all known meaning - they met the DSLR camera. The only condition needed to do all these things is to know how to use it.

All first meetings are difficult:

- Look at this person! How strange she is?!?

- Yes! Damn it! She does not smile at all? Why on earth it has so many buttons?

- What did she say? Aperture, Speed, Focus?!!!? Damn who does she think she is?!?

Wait a bit there! Don't get angry, already! I will tell you only one thing: All the new beginnings are difficult - My advice is arm yourself with a little bit of passion and a lot of practice and at the end you will be rewarded with amazing pictures and wonderful memories!

You will always be rewarded because once you figured out the trick you will want to take pictures of the whole world.

Until then practice and passion!

See you soon and enjoy the pictures!