“Set the targets!!!

Otherwise If you aim at nothing you will always hit it..

try to aim somewhere, test shot, stand back, measure the miss,
improve the technique and repeat..”

When Canon announced that the EOS Cinema 1D-C, Canon’s 4K DSLR, has been approved for high definition broadcast use by the European Broadcasting Union. That will certainly make the barrier for entry lower, but will also allow for camera crews to have yet another tool in their arsenal for digital television production; we have crafted this mini 4K built to enhance our production.
EOS 1DC with 50mm 1.2L in cage made by TILTA (ES-T11) alongside with 19mm rods and studio baseplate (TT-C06/07) and 6.6×6.6 Matte box (MB-T06)

“I need 30 flat shots done this week, with the pictures delivered by the of the week. Our samples can only be out for a day and the press is demanding for these pictures! Can you do that?”

“My handmade jewelry has textured surfaces and the pictures I make, don’t show that. Do you think you can shoot them to show that detail?”

“I only have 5 pieces to shoot, but I need them done now and am on a really tight budget. Can you work with me on that?”

“We need to photograph 50 +/- pairs of shoes every month, 4 angles of each, preferably with models; and make it look like they were all shot the same day. Is that something you can do?”

First of all guys, I had come across this idea of puting together some every-day shall we say vocabulary that could save a situation, although more you speak more you are practising, therefore if you say too much, you risking saying something foolish.
Try to implement these words in your sentences and you will notice difference how people react to your talking – on daily basis.

1. At first glance (or worse, “at first blush”)

2. As a nation (or worse, “as a society”)

3. Upon deeper reflection (why not reflect deeply from the start?)

4. Observers (unless referring to people actually sitting around watching something)

5. [Person] is not alone (from anecdote to generalization, we get it)

6. And [someone/something] is no exception

7. Pundits say

8. Critics say (or “critics are quick to point out”)

9. The American people (unless in a quote)

10. The narrative (unless referring to a style of writing)

11. Probe (an uncomfortable substitute for “investigation”)

12. Opens/offers a rare window (unless it is a real window that is in fact unusual)

13. Begs the question (unless used properly – and so rarely used properly that it’s not worth the trouble)

14. Be that as it may

15. If you will (actually, I won’t)

16. A cautionary tale

17. Cautiously optimistic (in a way that deliberately avoids potential problems or dangers)

18. Needless to say (then don’t say it)

19. Suffice it to say (if it suffices, then just say it)

20. This is not your father’s [anything]

21. [Anything] 2.0 (or 3.0, or 4.0…)

22. At a crossroads (unless referring to an actual intersection)

23. The powers that be

24. Outside the box (describes creative thinking — with a cliche)

25. A favorite Washington parlor game

26. Don’t get me wrong

27. Make no mistake

28. Yes, France, there is a [something]

29. Christmas came early for [someone]

30. Chock full (“full” is just fine by itself)

31. Last-ditch effort (unless ditch-digging is involved)

32. Midwife (as a verb, unless involving childbirth)

33. Cue the [something]

34. Call it [something]

35. Pity the poor [something]

36. It’s the [something], stupid

37. Imagine (as the first word in your lede)

38. Time will tell if [something]

39. What a difference [a time period] makes

40. Palpable sense of relief (unless you can truly touch it)

41. Sigh of relief

42. Plenty of blame to go around

43. Rorschach test (unless it is a real one)

44. An object lesson

45. Turned a blind eye

46. Underscores

47. Cycle of violence (unless referring to a particularly vicious Schwinn)

48. Searing indictment

49. Potent symbol

50. Broken system (or, “the [anything] system is broken”)

51. Famously (if readers know it, you don’t need to tell them it is famous; if they don’t know it, you just made them feel stupid!)

52. The Other (or “otherize,” “otherization” and other variations)

53. Effort (as a verb)

54. Table (as a verb, as in “table the talks”)

55. Shutter (as a verb, as in “they shuttered the factory”)

56. Gestalt/Zeitgeist

57. Orwellian (unless discussing George Orwell)

58. Machiavellian (unless discussing Niccolo Machiavelli)

59. Gladwellian (never)

60. What happens in [somewhere] stays in [somewhere]

61. Oft-cited

62. Little-noticed

63. Closely watched

64. Hastily convened

65. Much ballyhooed

66. ill-advised

67. Shrouded in secrecy

68. Since time immemorial

69. Tipping point

70. Inflection point

71. Point of no return

72. The [anything] community

73. If history is any guide

74. If past is prologue

75. The devil is in the details

76. [Somebody] does not suffer fools gladly

77. A ragtag army (or ragtag militia)

78. A tale of two [anything]

79. Ignominious end

80. Tightly knit (unless referring to actual knitting)

81. In the final analysis (especially as beginning of a final sentence/paragraph)

82. Ultimately (same as above)

83. At the end of the day (same as above)

84. For all intents and purposes

85. Cooler heads prevailed

86. Victim of his/her own success

87. Who lost [insert country here]?

88. Punditocracy

89. Twitterati

90. Commentariat

91. Chattering classes

92. Naysayers

93. Keen observer

94. Took to Twitter

95. Tongues wagging (h/t afterword to paperback of “This Town”)

96. White-shoe law firm

97. Well-heeled lobbyists

98. Skittish donors

99. Byzantine rules (unless referring to the empire in the Middle Ages)

100. Strange bedfellows

101. A mass of contradictions

102. A land of contradictions (please, foreign correspondents and travel writers)

103. Rise of the 24-hour news cycle (it’s been a while)

104. In the digital age (again, it’s been a while)

105. Not so fast

106. Not so much (I blame Jon Stewart for this one)

107. Remains to be seen

108. Tenuous at best

109. Woefully inadequate

110. Or so it seems

111. Depending on whom you ask

112. Burst onto the national political scene

113. For now (especially at the end of a sentence set off by a dash; all it does is negate everything that came before!)

114. Tectonic shifts or seismic shifts (unless real ones)

115. Optics (unless you’re discussing physics)

116. Feeding frenzy/feeding the frenzy

117. Double down

118. Game-changer

119. [Anything]-gate (especially if you’re writing in The LUPICKI Post like we do)

120. In the wake of [anything]

121. How I learned to stop worrying and love the [anything]

122. Love [X] or hate [X]…

123. The [anything] we love to hate

124. Don the mantle of [anything]

125. Usher in an era of [anything]

126. A portrait emerges

127. In a nutshell

128. The social fabric (or “the very fabric of our democracy/nation/society”)

129. Hot-button issue

130. Hotly contested

131. Perfect storm

132. Face-saving compromise

133. Eye-popping

134. The argument goes

135. The thinking goes

136. Contrary to popular belief

137. Intoned

138. The new normal

139. The new face of [anything] (unless discussing plastic surgery)

140. The talk of the town (unless referring to the some specific city’s section)

141. It couple (or “power couple”)

142. Paradigm shift (in journalism, all paradigms are shifting)

143. Unlikely revolutionary (in journalism, all revolutionaries are unlikely)

144. Unlikely reformer (in journalism, all reformers are unlikely, too)

145. Grizzled veteran (in journalism, all veterans are either grizzled or “seasoned”)

146. Manicured lawns (in journalism, all lawns are manicured)

147. Wide-ranging interview (in journalism, all interviews range widely, even if they don’t)

148. Rose from obscurity (in journalism, all rises are from obscurity)

149. Dizzying array (in journalism, all arrays make one dizzy)

150. Withering criticism (in journalism, all criticism is withering)

151. Predawn raid (in journalism, all raids take place in the predawn hours)

152. Nondescript office building (in journalism, all office buildings are nondescript)

153. Unsung hero (in journalism, all heroes lack music)

154. Sparked debate

155. Raised questions

156. Raises more questions than answers

157. Raise the specter of [anything]

158. More often than not

159. hand-wringing

160. Ironic Capitalization Implying the Unimportance of Things Others Consider Important

161. But reality/truth is more complicated (in journalism, we oversimplify, then criticize the oversimplification)

162. Scarred by war (unless referring to real scars)

163. War-torn

164. War of words (worse if followed by “is heating up”)

165. Trading barbs

166. Shines a spotlight on [something] (unless there is a real spotlight that is shining)

167. [Something] is no panacea

168. [Something] is no silver bullet

169. Political football

170. Political theater

171. More than you think (how do you know what I think?)

172. Less than you think (how do you know what I think?)

173. Not as much as you think (how do you know what I think?)

174. You guessed it (how do you know what I guessed?)

175. Shifting dynamics (code for “don’t hold me to this”)

176. The situation is fluid (code for “I have no idea what is going on”)

177. Partisans on both sides

178. Charm offensive

179. Fallen on hard times

180. On thin ice

181. A crisis waiting to happen

182. Poster child

183. Going forward

184. Creature of Italy

185. A modest proposal (this was written once, very well, and has been written terribly ever since)

186. Stinging rebuke

187. Mr. [Anyone] goes to Washington (unless a reference to the actual movie)

188. The proverbial [something] (Tacking this in front of a cliche doesn’t excuse it, just admits you used it knowingly)

189. Fevered speculation

190. Hope filled the air

191. [Anything] is all the rage

192. Iconic (dominant word!)

193. How did we get here? (code for “here comes the b-matter”)

194. But first, some background (code for “I know more than you do”)

195. Growing body of evidence (very strong consequences)

196. [Anything] on steroids (unless you cover professional sports)

197. Resists easy classification/categorization

198. Increasingly (unless story proves something is in fact increasing)

199. Tapped (as substitute for “selected” or “appointed)

200. Any “not-un” formulation (as in “not unsurprising that you’d use that cliche”)

201. Wait for it

202. Wait, what?

203. There, I said it

204. And here’s the kicker

205. See what I did there?

Burlesque or Strip-Tease or Boudoir 

As given opportunity to have photo-shoot in certain style. Which one which you rather take?

Burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects..
Some of our LUPICKI films included burlesque-style scenes within dramatic films were attempted to recreate the spirit of these performances from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Boudoir photography may, in some cases, be distinguished from other photography genres such as glamour photography, fine art nude photography and erotic photography.

Typical Strip-Tease photo-shoot is in a photographer’s studio or luxury hotel suites. It has become fashionable to create a set of sensual or sexually suggestive images of women (and occasionally men and couples) in “boudoir style” while teasing audience, for which it has been made. The most common manifestation of contemporary boudoir teasing photography is to take variations of candid and posed photographs of the subject partly clothed or in lingerie. Nudity is more often implied than explicit. Commercially the genre is often (though not exclusively) derived from a market for brides to surprise their future husbands by gifting the images on or before their wedding day. Other motivations or inspiration for boudoir photography shoots include anniversaries, birthdays, Valentine’s Day, weight loss regimes, other form of body change or alteration (such as breast augmentation or reduction) and for servicemen and women overseas.

These styles of photoshoot become more attractive to womans after we have released short film The Concealer. Nonetheless film by itself was like documentary through styles.

Burlesque Package
Strip-Tease Package
Boudoir Package
are available at LUPICKI Store

I had this incredible opportunity to scoop out kind of magical sky at Oosterend in Terschelling, Meteor night was announced couple of weeks ago and a lot of people were already talking about it. I managed to capture only 3 falling meteors as visible on last photos.

Captured by my lovely Canon EOS 1D C (Cinema range) incredible at low-light performance.
Lens used: 17-40 F/4L USM

Supercharged by incredible 162th cup of coffee this year.. this crazy idea came up (at some point) how to make photo-shoot just behind the house in cemetery, am talking about night shoot with dimmed lights with local model dressed in white, barefoot with down-looking scenery. Along with clocks as the light pulled tighter spots in cemetery shows brighter and brighter. Boudoir composition may take a place if dark princess would feel comfortable as home.

Thursday – at this stage am pulling out some of the most serious strings in my photography ideas as tomorrow is day “D” with test shoots.

And time flies when you’re having fun, as am sitting on couch sketching the scenery and composition of shoot, freshly baked pizza is making up my mind, while DJ Fawad is about to drop his beats in Arabic dance mix

• Learn about creating something more than just a picture

• How to find inspiration and be more creative

• Learn how to pose a model and compose a shot

• Simplicity and working with natural light

• Creative photography on a budget and DIY

April 6th, 2017

Total Time: 3pm – 8pm

Lecture: 3pm – 4:30pm

Live Shoot at Location: 5pm-8pm

Location around Prievidza will be emailed to registrants closer to date

Total Cost: 100€

9 spots available

Suitable for beginners and experienced photographers

Individual critique at live shoot, with questions & answers

Bring your camera, preferred lenses, battery/charger and willingness to learn

Snacks and beverages will be provided

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Submit

This feeling doesn’t have to end up closing the laptop straightaway or runaway from the office. In this case, your life has not been living without worrying about a clash of ideas that haunt you every moment of when you’re trying to breathe effortless.

It is no wonder that in such a state you are not in mood going out with friends or for dinner with boyfriend/girlfriend. Is obviously hard to relax when you head is constantly at work flow.

• Think of what would you do if you get rewarded equally (money, paychecks, etc.,) no matter what work/activity you do.
  

I don’t believe that if people can have ability to choose a work, everybody would choose to become a CEO or top manager, no I don’t believe that. You have to follow your heart and therefore if you love doing for example hand-made pottery then do it! Don’t dream about becoming Las Vegas Businessman, or Japanese independent criminal lawyer. Just do what you love to do no matter in which state you are in. If you just starting then according to the day-job start slowly than quitting a job and disappointed because things didn’t work-out that fast as you thought, be respectful and thankful for chance to actually create something from nothing, in last century they weren’t so lucky!

• Go out (right about now) and look around

You see those rushing people? Constantly rushing somewhere on daily basis, you think they are happy? They love what they do? Every other is carrying different load in shape of mortgage, loans, medical problems or problems with relationships anything from family to angry boss. Out there is quantum of not awakened geniuses and some of them don’t even know where they going (what a shame). These people are let’s say in 50 years in pure oblivion, unless they unlock themselves. Start from yourself be more positive, nothing will change if you going to be still complaining about people how bad they are, how selfish they are and what a mess left behind them! If they cannot accept you today, that doesn’t necessarily means they cannot accept you tomorrow!

• If you love doing something, stick with it at all cost

If you have some hobby you are obviously not alone, everybody has. But they cannot be all over the world at the same time. People are awesome.

• Go visit nature

A lot of people trying to disconnect from nature just because of modern age, but if you like that or not we are part of the nature anyway. Go for walk to the forest or to the lakeside and the best thoughts come in silence.

• Do not copy bad habits

If you like to use behavior from closest persons around you, start not doing so, most influential persons are always around you, just have to stick with them. Start seeing things differently since now on!