Daria Bulavina's school. Biography. - What interesting locations did you shoot in

She graduated from school number 1249 with in-depth study of the German language. She also graduated from the music school and college. IO Dunaevsky, piano. Has a German language diploma. IN given time studies at Moscow State University them. M. V. Lomonosov at the Faculty of Philology, and also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany. Knows several languages \u200b\u200b(German, English, Spanish, Polish, etc.).

She started to get involved in photography at the age of 18. While studying at the University of Marburg, she attended seminars on the history of portrait photography and gained shooting experience outside of the former Soviet Union (Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Italy).

Daria has a lot of works in various styles, as well as collaboration with Gleb Matveychuk, Dmitry Verkeenko, Dmitry Dyakonov, Olga Filimontseva, Kai Metov, as well as the Moscow groups "Renaissance", "Olvi", "Arida Vortex", "Andem", " Biorate "," KenaZ ", also Moscow State University. Lomonosov and the "Exemplary Behavior" club.

Since 2007 Daria has been the official photographer of the Sea Ball at Federal agency sea \u200b\u200band river transport of Russia (headed by A. A. Davydenko).

In 2008, she was invited by the Danish Embassy in Russia to film the visit of the Prince and Princess of Denmark to Moscow. Since 2009, she is a member of the International Union of Creative Youth (youth association of the Union of Artists). Collaborates with Natalia Serebryakova, a leading makeup artist at the Moscow Operetta Theater (musicals: Notre Dame, Romeo and Juliet, Monte Cristo, etc.). Also cooperates with "VITO Technology" company, which develops applications for Apple iPhone.

Teaching activities

Daria Bulavina teaches the basics of photography at the FTK at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and also founded her own photography school, "Dark Room School". Classes are held in M-Studio (metro station Baumanskaya). In the near future it is planned to move the school to the “Enjoy” studio (metro station Kropotkinskaya).

Publications

Daria has several publications, both philological and photographic. (for example, the articles "Library of the Future" and "Problems of Verifying Political News on the Internet" for the "Bulletin of Moscow State University", as well as the textbook "Fundamentals Digital Photography"And methodological manuals on the basics of photography for the FTK at MIPT). Also in December 2009 the second part of the textbook was signed for printing.

- I think one of the reasons is that I lived and studied in Germany for a long time, one might say, spent most of my life in this country. And of course, I want to show it, in a sense, to “reveal” it to my students.

Many, living in Russia, do not consider Germany as a country for recreation, they are closer to Spain or Italy. I would like to inspire photographers with my beloved country, to show beautiful locations, ancient castles, majestic mountains and quiet, calm lakes. Enjoy delicious German cuisine, drink fresh beer at the top of the Zugspitz, ride a roller coaster and take a selfie with seals on the Wadden Sea - you will not find such a variety of locations and types of recreation anywhere else! Add to this the smile and responsiveness of the Germans, cleanliness and order, and you will understand why I love this country.

The choice of autumn is also obvious, because although Germany is beautiful at any time of the year, in autumn it blooms with the whole palette of possible colors. In Russia golden autumn lasts very little, literally until the first rains that knock down the foliage, so it turns out that I am going to Germany for Halloween, precisely at the time when autumn is in full swing, and thus significantly extend the autumn season. Moreover, unlike the middle zone of the European part of Russia, a comfortable temperature remains here (from +15 to +20 degrees), the sun always shines, the trees remain standing in yellow and red foliage.

This is so inspiring! In Germany, everywhere you look, beautiful leaves are everywhere. In Moscow, unfortunately, there are not many maples that give a red tint to the leaves, but in Germany they are everywhere. When the students and I formally finish shooting, they continue to take pictures, wanting to take with them even more bright autumn shots.

Therefore, let's say, Germany for a photographer, in my understanding, is a win-win option if you want to relax and shoot in autumn, in this color mood.

- What equipment did you take with you?

- The specificity of travel photography in general, and of my photo tours in particular, is that we are on the move a lot: we go long distances on foot, climb mountains, visit castles located not in the most easily accessible places, climb stairs. Carrying a huge backpack with equipment with you, even if you always work with an assistant, is rather tiresome.

That is why I took with me a set of Olympus equipment: the compact E-M5 Mark II mirrorless camera and to it, including the compact super-fast fixtures. Plus, this time I took a new ultra wide-angle zoom from the professional line.

The best part is that the Olympus equipment weighs really little. For me, as a girl-photographer, this is very important, and more importantly, with such a compactness, there are no questions about the quality of the picture in any conditions, including shooting in the evening and at night. I would especially emphasize that the 5-axis stabilizer on the sensor often helps out, and not only when photographing handheld (in some locations, due to the dynamic movement of our group, I shot without a tripod at 2 seconds of exposure, and I got sharp shots), but also when shooting with a tripod. For example, when in Frankfurt we shot a panoramic view of the city from a bridge at night, the stabilizer worked even at a shutter speed of 40 seconds, compensating for the bridge's vibrations from passing cars. Students who were shooting with the usual DSLRs, because of the vibrations, came out blurry pictures, this happens on bridges. They had to stand on the “fixed” part of the bridge, but the angle was, unfortunately, not the same.

We also took lighting equipment with us. Basically, of course, the shooting took place with natural light, but in Frankfurt at night I used the new Profoto B2 rechargeable flash units, which we specially took on the trip to test. I usually shoot with the older battery model Profoto B1, which is more powerful, and in general I like them more than the B2 (considering that I have to shoot), but from the perspective of street photography and mobility, the B2 also seemed interesting, we shot with them perfectly all that was needed.

- What lenses were used for portrait photography, which for landscape photography and why?

- As I said, I shot quite a lot with the new M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm f / 2.8 Pro wide-angle zoom, which provides similar viewing angles to lenses with focal length 14-28mm on 35mm cameras. I also had a standard high-aperture zoom M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f / 2.8 Pro, also from a professional line, and also protected from dust and moisture, but I practically did not shoot with it, because most landscapes needed a wider one. angle and did not want to glue panoramas, especially in the E-M5 Mark II there is a high-resolution mode, when the camera takes a 64-megapixel image in RAW. For me, this is relevant from the standpoint of selling my works in the gallery.

I shot everything related to portraits on ultra-high-aperture fixes in order to further distance the model from the background - these are 25 millimeters, 45 and 75. In the equivalent for 35-millimeter cameras, they got 50, 90 and 150 millimeters of focal length.

On my next trip, I plan to experiment more with panoramic photography, including bokeram. This is when a wide angle is obtained by shooting a series of images with a long-focus lens and then stitching them together in a graphics editor.

- What interesting locations did you shoot in?

- There were a lot of interesting locations, as usual. We even specially take photo models from Russia with us on such tours, so that we can get not only interesting landscape and landscape shots, but also portrait shots at locations, we agree in advance with local couples (often these are Russian Germans or married couples from a Russian and a German). We also carry a huge baggage of clothes and props for the models, so that we have new bows every day, and the students get a large number of interesting portraits in German flavor.

Briefly speaking about the locations, then, first of all, it is interesting to shoot in one of the largest amusement parks in Europe. It is called Europa-Park and is located in the city of Rust. For lovers autumn photography and the theme of Halloween is a real Mecca, because on the holiday and for a whole month after it, the park is very impressively decorated - something about 160 thousand (!) pumpkins, several tons of apples (this year was either 8, or 10 tons), plus an incredible number of thematic installations. Do not forget that there is also the coolest roller coaster in Europe.

We go to Europa-Park to ride, look at pumpkins, take pictures of these interesting installations, including a medieval fair with colorful people. Naturally, there are places that are remarkable not only from the point of view of photography - for example, the castle where you can eat amazing, very tasty fresh deer goulash, as well as the signature pumpkin cream soup. In general, it's incredibly interesting when almost every new month you have a “seasonal” menu. For example, in the fall, you can always find dishes made from deer, fallow deer, bull or wild boar.

We were also in Kassel, this is the Wilhelmshöhe park ensemble, which has the Löwenburg castle. This is a 19th century castle, that is, a relative remake, but it was built entirely following the example of medieval castles, and all kinds of games and entertainment were held in it. We had a model shooting there, and then we went there again to photograph with Vladislava Yevtushenko, Vice-Miss of Russia 2015.

After that we visited Marburg, and then Heidelberg, where we first examined the ruined castle, and then we took pictures of the love story.

In Frankfurt, we were shooting at night, it was also very interesting and specific. Then we were in various small towns rich in local flavor. For example, in Bad Nauheim, where there are salt cooling towers. The cooling towers themselves are a separate inspiration. It is very interesting to shoot models against their background. And a stuffy nose goes away at once :-)

In general, we shot landscapes and portraits in the autumn setting quite fruitfully, had an active rest and visited a really large number of places, the format of your interview is simply not enough to describe all of them ;-)

Daria Bulavina, at my modest but very persistent request, engaging a wonderful model Ksenia Korneichuk for this, took off a little for 70. I was interested in her opinion about the camera - the point of view of a practicing photographer who shoots a lot. For this, we arranged an impromptu photoset literally "in the bushes" of Muzeon. Then I laughed for a long time when I raked the footage. The fact is that we were going to shoot for an hour and a half, it took about half an hour to change into corsets that Ksyusha brought, and Dasha took four minutes and thirty-two seconds exactly.

She's always like that. Another photographer puts the light in the studio for thirty minutes, on a painted and laid model (which already has makeup), then moves him for another hour trying to understand why the frame does not work out what is needed and experimenting on the fly, then he starts moving back and forth the model has arms-legs-head-chin-nose-eyes-pr ichyosku-clothes, and Dasha ... comes, in five minutes (while the model is still being painted) sets the light, takes ten frames and ... among them there are already several such as needed, without unnecessary duplicates and bad options.

I remember how, in six hours with several photo models, stylists and makeup artists, she shot one and a half times more gadgets for our article about New Year's gifts on THG than I had killed three days a year before (and did it by grinding the models and myself tightly).

Sometimes it's hard with her. You come to the studio with a model, conduct an experiment when your hands itch and your brain itches. And so you shoot, shoot, move the flash back and forth, change the attachments, all as serious and wise as the Canon EF 200mm f / 2 L IS USM, read a lot of articles and books, downloaded the entire YouTube with lessons, ready to change your name in your passport to "Breaking Templates" and dreaming of a Nobel Prize for a photograph, # suddenly comes Dasha. "What are you doing," she asks, but in such a tone that you understand - it's time to be born back. You explain the task to her in a nutshell, in response she throws a surprised look over the glasses, changes the attachments, rearranges the flashes, takes one picture and ... you see that the result that you dreamed of achieving at the apogee of the achievements of your mind is already on her screen DSLRs, and you would not have come to this either in an hour or tomorrow. And then you understand that all your attempts and striving for perfection for someone are drooling in a manger, and you will never get out of these creches, simply because there is not so much time for passion for photography, there will not be and cannot be in principle, but everything you need will not fit into your head even if you buy a pile driver. And then ... I don't want to shoot at all. No camera. No optics. With no light. Never.

Oh yes. Photos :-)

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