Here are some photos I have taken in the past

Photo Gallery

Here are some experimental movies based on the photo skills I have done in the past (filmed with Panasonic GH4 and Blackmagic4K)

https://youtube.com/@angelstoyanov1707?si=QYH5na3HBeL6Zqnh

hope you enjoy some of them 🙂

My favorite 3 of them:

Breeze in the Wheat: This is behind the scenes movie on a daily photo session with photographers from the town. No one has Idea that I`m filming at that moment. And this is the result of it. (Play it with sound 🙂 )

A very cold winter in my town – 20 probably very early in the morning bout 6 am I had a chance to see and film these birds. This is on the way of the Birds VIA PONTICA.

This is behind a scenes video, one of my friends photographer was doing the photoshoot for calendars of the Fire Brigade and I had to document it.

Week 1: Task photo credits:

2: Find a photo that you took of your colleagues and upload it:

the story of today: BTS Angel and Shay

In today’s photography course, I thoroughly enjoyed myself. I`m addicted to photography and filming :), I had the opportunity to capture behind-the-scenes stills and observed how much my colleagues were also enjoying the experience. I firmly believe that photography is a crucial skill for visual effects, and it evolves with each photo taken. I hope the course becomes even more challenging, allowing for further growth and development.

Research 2 photographers :

Mark Power – Mark Power is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and a Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton. – https://www.markpower.co.uk/

2. Andy Goldsworth – Andy Goldsworthy OBE is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. – andygoldsworthystudio.com

Week 2:

We learned about the camera. Speed, Aperture, and Iso and how those 3 work together

it was about The importance of understanding exposure (how important is to make better photos)

how to compensate with different methods.

this is an example of how different aperture can change the Depth of field

The depth of field (DOF) is the distance between the nearest and the furthest objects that are in acceptably sharp focus in an image captured with a camera.

also the speed and aperture working together

researching 2 photographers

the 2 photographers I found interesting and would like to share this week are

JERRY UELSMANN – https://www.uelsmann.net/works.php

Jerry Uelsmann was a pioneer in photography, exhibiting a foresight beyond his era. While contemporary image manipulation typically invokes thoughts of digital processes like Photoshop, Jerry was already blending multiple images in the darkroom well before the advent of computer editing. Renowned for his surreal and dreamlike gelatin-silver print photomontages, his work seamlessly merges meticulous darkroom techniques with boundless creativity, yielding profoundly captivating fine art prints.

DORTHEA LANG – Dorthea Lang is best known for her work for the Farm Security Administration during the great depression. Lang is important in photographic history because her work influenced the development of documentary photography. Throughout her career, she documented important social issues throughout the United States including the forced removal of Japanese Americans by the federal government during World War II. At the time, the government impounded most of Lang’s work of the internment process.

Week 3:

We learned about different types of camera angles and the dynamic range of the photos

Dynamic range is the ratio between the largest and smallest values that a certain quantity can assume. It is often used in the context of signals, like sound and light. It is measured either as a ratio or as a base-10 or base-2 logarithmic value of the difference between the smallest and largest signal values.

we also looked at the camera angles:

after the lesson we had a workshop going into the park and taking photos here are some different examples I took of photos :

close up shots

portraits:

long angle:

cowboy shots:

Medium shots:

slow and fast shutter speed:

Week 4: Research 1-2 Photographers

my favorite photographer is also my friend from many years ago, I believe its worth watching at her gallery, and here is a link to it.

https://photo-forum.net/en/photographer/niavaah

she mostly uses old film cameras and does all of her work manually, I like the unique style that she has and the compositions

here is a photo example of how she blends the photos with an old film, and the skills that she uses that we very rarely see those days

another favorite photographer that I have, I met in my town few years ago and he showed me some of his skills of how to freeze the see and catch the lighting bolts is Nakul Sharma – I have plans to go on one of his photo tours one day. An amazing travel photographer that I keep in touch with.

here is his page and my favorite photos.

https://nakulphotography.com/best-seller.html

Week 5: Photo Story

My idea of photo story sequence I have presented in class is:

Based on a real story.

I found a real story of a man with a dream, talking with a lot of people during my research, asking everyone to tell me the most motivational story that happened in their life, One of my colleagues at work was happy to tell me his story, from when he was a kid who always had a dream and wanted to be a pilot, but somehow he has a sickness and once presenting the idea in class, everyone was laughing at him. His teacher told him he never going to be a pilot as he had a sickness, he told him to forget about that and start thinking about something realistic. The kid never gave up on his idea, and with the support of his family somehow went forward and moved on, with his dream of success and becoming a pilot, and he graduated as a pilot.

I plan about 15 shots on camera using different techniques that work well with the narrative.

starting with the dream
showing the stress the boy has after he discovers he doesn’t have his teacher’s support
not giving up – keeping with the dream.
support he received
Dream come true.

It will require a lot of shooting outdoors, and maybe some shots in something like a classroom. I believe more important in my photo story sequence will be showing the right emotions the boy has at different parts of the story. Showing his motivation, and his will to succeed.

I plan to use a maximum of 3 photo collages that work well with the narrative, some photos may be black and white to show different parts of his emotions.

week 6: Dark Room: It’s always good to see the magic behind and how photography works by projecting the images on paper. with chemicals and water cleaned, drying in the printer at the end

after we printed the images we had a challenge to make a story with them, here is our class story. using different methods.

Research 1-2 Photographers :

PLATON – http://www.platonphoto.com/

Platon is famous for his close-up and intimate portraiture with clean backgrounds. He often shoots just slightly below eye level to give his subjects a dominating look. Platon’s work includes some of the world’s most famous and prominent people. His subjects span a gamut of backgrounds from world leaders and business people to musicians and movie stars.

PHILLIPE HELMSMAN – https://www.philippehalsman.com/

Creative is an understatement when describing Phillipe Helmsman’s work. He would go to great lengths to create photographs and concepts that had never been seen before. His concepts often required elaborate setups and creative positioning of the camera. He photographed social figures including Elbert Einstein, Richard Nixon, and Clint Eastwood, and is one of the greatest portrait photographers of his time.

Week 7: Lighting

we learned about different types of lighting in photography :

those are

Natural Light
Front Light (or Flat Light)
Backlight
Soft Light
Hard Light
Rim Light
Loop Lighting
Broad Lighting
Short Lighting
Butterfly Lighting
Split Lighting
Rembrandt Lighting

I hade the chance to also work on a video project ( Thank you Daniel for letting me do this)

During my vacation, I had a chance to work the whole week on my photo sequence work which I believe is one of the best :), also had a certificate on the topic that we had from Linked In:

short imagination of how I imagined the story to be after I spoke with the model

The sequence project is based on A Life Story: Thank you to Gabriel Kauffman and the teacher Marcus for allowing me to share this on my project with you:

I went to the museum to do some more research about pilots and aircraft and took reference photos with my phone

I had the chance to go to Heathrow Airport and Hatton Cross on different days taking thousands of photos to make my school project

here is a short behind of scenes of how the sequence was made:

I was going on different days to different places

using different lenses and I choose the Cannon 5D Mark III

The rain didn’t stop me :)))

I had to create different Propps (the paper plane and the writing on the books) and adjust some lighting for the shoot

One of my biggest challenges was balancing my work schedule while finalizing the project presented a significant challenge. Also Convincing the model of my capability to accurately capture the essence of his real-life story was crucial. Despite nearly losing his commitment due to his hesitations, I managed to secure his trust.

I also waited 2 hours for my model HE was late 🙁

In between I had a lot of fun taking different photos not of the topic:

I have a secret for you after I show my sequence If someone can guess.

FINALLY, I MADE IT 🙂 I cannot wait to present it in class – Who can stop a man with a dream?

The sequence page and the video are here:

sequence

2 photographers for this week are:

W. EUGENE SMITH – https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/w-eugene-smith/

W. Eugene Smith is often regarded as the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay. Throughout his career as a photographer, Smith worked for Newsweek, Flying Magazine, and Life. He was seen as stubborn by editors due to his powerful drive and vision. Early in his career, he was fired from Newsweek for refusing to use a medium-format camera.

DAVID YARROW – https://davidyarrow.photography/

David Yarrow is a wildlife and fine art photographer based out of London. His work takes on two forms. The first is that of traditional wildlife photography but often from very low angles to emphasize the animal that he is photographing. The second form is cinematic photographs that appear to be out of a strange Wild West movie.

Week 8: Storyboards and Visual Narratives in Photography :

we had a workshop activity and all together we made a storyboard that we called ‘YOU ARE NOT ALONE’

here is the outcome:

then we learned about camera movements:

Two short clips in my garden showing some of the pans and tilts and rotations, different camera angles and narrow depth of field

Here is 2 favorite filmmakers:

https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonLiUnscripted

https://www.youtube.com/@ANDBERY

Week 9 linked-in photos:

we have also learned about the principles of animation

they are

Timing and Spacing.
Squash and Stretch.
Anticipation.
Ease In and Ease Out.
Follow Through and Overlapping Action.
Arcs.
Exaggeration.
Solid Drawing.

Here are 2 favorite animations that use the 12 principles of animation

Here you can see some of my favourite animations of all time , I hope you really enjoy how fun they are its a Bulgarian animator Donev has been a professor at the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts for years, where he taught directing of animation.^[3] He was decorated with the high government prize the Order Of Saint Cyril And Saint Methodius.

topMotion Video:

the video was created in two different days, using an iPhone and the same location. I have used stock footage for the beginning to the video that works with the narrative, as I like to be more like a story

the photos are edited in Premiere Pro making them as a sequence. and adding music and sound effects to help also with the narrative

I took the chance to use the studio in one of our last workshops seeing the opportunity that no one wanted to use it. Then I decided to change my stop motion animation and made a new project that I called STOP E-Motion (animation) 🙂 – the animation was done during the class workshop when we had time to work on our projects I decided to make a new animation, then the photos were taken to lightroom and edited on adobe Premiere 12FPS.

Purposely used three types of color (Blue – showing the loneliness of the person) (Green – when the second person arrives in the animation showing us that they still don’t know each other and the web around them, and that they need time to start a relationship together) ( Red- is showing the love that begins and its support to the end with the final kiss) also 2 transitions are been used to make the animation a bit dynamic.

Also I have played with the shadows and moved the lights around the objects to create a interesting vision.

Week 10: School workshop (the idea of stop motion that we did with the class – I gave the idea of the hands coming from the side)

Studio – based on the designer cloths and model

theme – aqua shift shape

Luckily I had a designer friend who provided me with her last year model cloths. Also, one of my classmates Roshik helped me with the makeup on the models she did amazing work, which I appreciate from my heart.

used 3 lights, and a bubble machine gun to make the bubbles, and in the end left with very little time for the actual photoshoot as there was a lot of time to prepare the models and they took time. We closed the studio 20 minutes later after 5 pm and I like to say a huge thank you to the team from the storage room that allowed this ti happen. Thank you everyone for the support.