It is often needed to take a ride on the wild side and blow some steam of. Forget rules, deadlines, etch and just get “serious” Experiment, try crazy shit, make huge fails but don’t give a damn, get embarrased.

It’s all part of the plan and it’s a great creative selfboost if you ask me.

So grab your cameras and do something crazy. Today!

Well I must admit it: I am a sucker when it comes to abstract art. Event from my early days in graphic design. I remember I was drooling when I used to see digital abstract art from the fine masters suck as Chapter3.net and Magictorch from UK.

So it;s only natural to experiment when I am photoshooting for fun or for a client as well. The good thing is that experimentation pays off. The bad thing is that you have somehow to give a logical and solid explenation to the client, regarding you, lying on the floor and moving the camera like crazy while you should be photographing his night club.

Fun stuff…

The title says it all regarding the overall feeling I was trying to capture during one of those rare moments that no one was in this park, located in Drama city.

This was shot with my new Tokina 11-16 and my old trusty D80 by dragging the shutter and using custom White Balance setting to get this warm color feeling

Those who are familiar with Steven King’s “The Dark Tower” book series will recognize the title. As for the rest I strongly suggest to check them out but be warned that you will be sucked into a magical world that will probably never forget.

This show was taken during a rainy day, while I was looking for a creative outcome out of household objects using glass objects and trying to get an interesting result from reflections and refractions.

I will not spoil the mystery by revealing what I  actually shot. I’d rather leave it up to you to do the guesswork

This shot as one that came out a lot better that I actually expected when i clicked. I will not tell you who or what the guy is just to keep the mystery alive but I can tell you this: Custom white balance when you don’t have that warming filter on you is your best friends sometimes.

My intention was to create a mystery feeling across the frame not only by composition but also by color. At first since it was near sun dawn I thought that just a good angle would pay off but it did not. The result was way to … realistic.

So I started using the custom white balance, using warmer that usual settings until I git this. A little pps was added later just to add a small vignetting for artistic purposes., although I usually try not to use pps for 90% of my “artistic” photos.

Business photo shoots are of course excluded.  I still don;t know any photographer / graphic designer that became rich by making things look ugly

Now a challenge: The first three who will comment and guess what this’ man is doing for living will get a free print from Lightform Store. So take your shot

How can you make an empty stage with bad lighting look interesting? Zoom in slowly baby !

Here I am at the Camerata Classic Orchestra live performance in Kavala few summers ago and while I am waiting for the end of the break I was trying to find something interesting to shoot but the light was just … damn.

So I started experimenting with slow shutter speeds and playing with the zoom until in my view finder I saw a decent shape that kinda reminded me of a flower.

Unfortunately there was a quite tall woman in front of me going frantic for some reason, moving around her hands to fast and hard while she was chatting to the point I was afraid for my well being :-p

So after I moved a few seats sideways until I was relative safe,  I played with the shutter speed and zoom for a few times until I captured this frame.

Around here I must dedicate this photograph to the frantic lady . If she was not there probably I would never move to a better position which allowed to capture this.

To bad I didn’t get her phone number :-p

The amazing ( ? ) story behind this image will soon be online! Stay tuned people. and Do come back. Please !