School of Daria Bulavina. Biography. What interesting locations did you shoot in?

She graduated from school No. 1249 with in-depth study of the German language. She also graduated from a music school and a college named after. I. O. Dunayevsky in piano. He has a German language diploma. AT given time studying at the Moscow State University them. M. V. Lomonosov at the Faculty of Philology, and also studied at the University of Marburg, Germany. Knows several languages ​​(German, English, Spanish, Polish, etc.).

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

Daria has many works in various styles, as well as collaborations 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 ​​and 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, he has been a member of the International Union of Creative Youth (youth association of the Union of Artists). Collaborates with Natalia Serebryakova, the leading make-up artist of the Moscow Operetta Theater (musicals: Notre Dame, Romeo and Juliet, Monte Cristo, etc.). He also collaborates with VITO Technology, which develops applications for the Apple iPhone.

Teaching activity

Daria Bulavina teaches the basics of photography at the FTK at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and has 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 premises of the "Enjoy" studio (metro station Kropotkinskaya).

Publications

Daria has several publications on her account, both philological and photographic. (for example, the articles "Library of the Future" and "Problems of Verification of Political News on the Internet" for the "Bulletin of Moscow State University", as well as the textbook "Fundamentals Digital Photography" and teaching aids on the basics of photography for the FTK at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology). Also in December 2009, the second part of the textbook was signed for publication.

- I think one of the reasons is that I lived and studied in Germany for a long time, one can say that I spent most of my life in this country. And of course, I want to show it, in a sense, “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 want to inspire photographers with my favorite country, show the most beautiful locations, ancient castles, majestic mountains and quiet, calm lakes. Enjoy delicious German cuisine, drink fresh beer on the top of the Zugspitze, ride roller coasters and take selfies with fur 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 gold autumn lasts very little, literally until the first rains that knock down the foliage, so it turns out that I'm going to Germany for Halloween, exactly at the time when autumn is in full swing, and thus significantly prolong the autumn season. Moreover, unlike the central 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.

It's so inspiring! In Germany, everywhere you look, there are beautiful leaves everywhere. In Moscow, unfortunately, there are not many maple trees 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 even more bright autumn shots with them.

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 colorful mood.

What equipment did you bring with you for filming?

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

That is why I took with me a set of Olympus equipment: a compact mirrorless E-M5 Mark II and for it, including compact ultra-fast fixes. 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 photographer, this is very important, and more importantly, with such a compact size, 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 matrix often helps out, and not only when photographing hand-held (in some locations, due to the dynamism of the 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 we shot a panoramic view of the city from a bridge in Frankfurt at night, the stabilizer also worked at a shutter speed of 40 seconds, compensating for the vibrations of the bridge from passing cars. Students who shot with conventional DSLRs got blurry pictures due to vibrations, and this happens on bridges. They had to stand on the “fixed” part of the bridge, but, unfortunately, the angle was not the same.

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

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

– As I said, I've been shooting quite a bit with the new M.Zuiko Digital ED 7-14mm f/2.8 Pro wide-angle zoom, which offers similar viewing angles to lenses with focal length 14-28mm on 35mm cameras. I also had a regular fast 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 didn’t shoot with it, because for most landscapes I needed a wider angle and did not want to glue panoramas, especially since the E-M5 Mark II has a mode high definition when the camera takes a 64 megapixel RAW photo. For me, this is relevant from the standpoint of selling my works in galleries.

Everything related to portraits was shot with ultra-fast fixes in order to further distance the model from the background - these are 25 millimeters, 45 and 75. In the equivalent for 35 mm cameras, they got 50, 90 and 150 millimeters of focal length.

On my next trip, I plan to experiment more with panoramic shooting techniques, including with beakers. This is when a wide angle is obtained by shooting telephoto lens a series of pictures and their subsequent gluing in a graphic 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 in order to get not only interesting landscape and species, but also portrait shots at locations, we agree in advance with local couples (often these are Russian Germans or married couples from Russian and German). We also carry a huge luggage of clothes and props for models so that we have new bows every day, and the students get a large number of interesting portrait shots in German flavor.

If we talk briefly about 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 Halloween themes are a real Mecca, because on the holiday and for a whole month after it, the park is very effectively decorated - it has something on the order of 160 thousand (!) pumpkins, several tons of apples (this year there were either 8, or 10 tons), plus an incredible number of thematic installations. Do not forget that here is 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 there that are remarkable not only from the point of view of photography - for example, the castle, where you can eat amazing, very tasty goulash from fresh deer, as well as signature pumpkin cream soup. In general, it is insanely interesting when you have a “seasonal” menu almost every new month. For example, in autumn, you can always find dishes 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 castle of the 19th century, 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 modeling shoot there, and then we went there again to take pictures with Vladislava Yevtushenko, Vice-Miss Russia 2015.

After that, we visited Marburg, and then Heidelberg, where we first examined the ruined castle, and then filmed a love story.

Night shooting was carried out in Frankfurt, it was also very interesting and specific. Then we were in various small towns, saturated with local color. 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. A stuffy nose goes away :-)

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

Daria Bulavina, at my modest but very insistent request, having engaged a wonderful model Ksenia Korneichuk for this, shot a little at seventies. I was interested in her opinion about the camera - the point of view of a practicing photographer who shoots a lot. To do this, we arranged an impromptu photoset literally "in the bushes" of Museon. I then 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 filmed for four minutes and thirty-two seconds exactly.

She's always like that. Another photographer sets the light in the studio for thirty minutes, on a painted and laid model (whose makeup is already starting to flow), then moves it for another hour trying to understand why the frame does not turn out to be what is needed and experimenting on the fly, then it starts to move back and forth the model has arms, legs, head, chin, nose, eyes, hair, 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 takes and unsuccessful options.

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

Sometimes it's hard for her. You come to the studio with a model, to conduct an experiment, when your hands itch and your brain itchs. And so you shoot and shoot, move flashes back and forth, change nozzles, 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 "Template Break" and dreaming of a Nobel Prize from a photograph, when #suddenly Dasha enters. "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 she dreamed of achieving at the apogee of the achievements of her mind is already on her screen DSLRs, and you would not have come to this either in an hour or tomorrow. And then you realize that all your attempts and striving for perfection are drooling in a manger for someone, and you will never get out of this manger, simply because there is not, will not and cannot be so much time for photography, 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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