Archive for September, 2008

I’m sure every Flickr user has noticed the Blurb ad on the Flickr starting page that can be seen after login. But I’m not sure that everyone checked it out. Blurb is a printing service: prints user made photo books on demand and delivers it to you at a relatively reasonable price. I write about my experiences with it.

Before actually trying it I was reading quite a lot about complaints regarding the printing quality and color cast some users experienced. However, since my parents birthday was approaching I took the risk and gave it a try and made a book with photos of my sons (I have three now). To be honest the risk was not that high and I mitigated it further with doing the same thing with a local (Hungarian) provider as well.

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Recently I photographed the members of Martenica Folk Dance Ensemble which is a dance group performing Bulgarian and other south-Slavik dances.

I loved to meet and talk to these guys in person after seeing them performing on the stage so many times. I hope that from the portraits you can feel a bit the mood of their lively and full of energy dances.

And my old friend needed some pics for his employer’s corporate Website. These two were the best of the series. “Pro” pics for free this time.

In all cases I used a one light / big fill card set up. The one light source was from a softbox quite close to the models’ face.