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Just a quick portrait session with a friend of mine, playing with ligh, experimenting with flashes, having fun.
Thanks to Erik Schütz for his assistance on this job!
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Masu wins CPF 10/1
It has been a while, but for sake of completeness and chronology of this blog, I want to mention the award I recently got for the reportage about Masu. The story is not finished and I hope will manage to complete it till the end of summer this year.
Anyhow, read more about the Award at their (german) Homepage.
Todays assignment 09.02.2010
I had to take pictures of people who suffered a fracture and are now treated in the Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin. More than 50% of their patients got admitted with this diagnosis in the past few days.
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New Shop
As some probably have already noticed – there is new option in the menue called Shop… which is pretty self-explanatory if you ask me. But nevertheless, I wanted to point it out here because of all the readers who follow via rss or email.
I would also like to hear some feedback about it – do you think the selection of images is cool? Is the site easy to understand and navigate? Let me know. Thanks!
New: Portrait Gallery
Hey, just wanted to let you know that I have updated my portfolio and added a portrait gallery to it. Tell me what you think about the editing. Are any images you remember from the blog missing? Would you throw some images out of the collection? If yes, why? Any feedback is welcome. Thanks!
Todays assignment 21.12.2009
The other day I had to take pictures of an australian journalist who recently came to berlin and freelances now for the Berliner Zeitung. Tourned out that there was some missunderstanding because the assigment should have been to take pictures of her at her favorite place in berlin – and her flat doesn´t count. So we had to redo the pictures, this time at the Paul-Linke-Ufer, her favorite place to take a walk.
Todays assignment 16.12.2009
Two portrait-jobs today, one of a bishop who recently moved to berlin and the other one of a australian journalist who will write a column for the Berliner Zeitung about beeing a foreigner in berlin. Coincidence?
Todays assignment 15.12.2009
Today was tough! Three assignments, one after the other, no break. A quick overview.
In the morning I had to take pictures of mentally disabled children performing a nitivity-play in a hospital church. I was deeply impressed by the nurses and the other people taking care of them – they seriously must have nerves of steel and (more importantly) a heart of gold.
Next one: I had to take pictures in the newsroom of the Berliner Zeitung of… a Dog. Right. The 14th floor is his alone and he is regarded by most as the BLZ-Dog. The most difficult part of the shooting was getting him to sit still.
Last one: The news was: “A street is again open to traffic” / The editor wanted: “A cool image of the street” / The problem was: “well, it is just a street like any other” / I was like: “wtf!?” It happens really often that you get in a situation where you have to make something out of nothing. You know that you wont win the Pulitzer with it, and the nice thing is that nobody expects you do it – they just wanta nice, printable foto.
Todays assignment 14.12.2009
The assignment you get rather often is to take pictures of building XY, and usually these are the most unrewarding jobs. You have like 30min time to figure out a composition, make the shot, and be gone. Same here, only today I also needed to make a portrait of some guys working in that building. Needless to say it freaks you out when you have such a limited time-window to work in. And I must confess – I am kinda bad at working during stress, I need some time to think the shot trough and get an idea of the final image I want to get. But I am getting more and more used to it.
Anyhow, the results:
Todays assignment 03.12.2009
Today a team of Greenpeace-Activists decided to politely (but firmly) ask Angela Merkel to show some commitment at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. They pulled two gigantic banners from the rooftop of the central train station and hoped someone will notice.
When the editors saw the pictures I brought back they said one of them will run on the front page, but later that day they made up their mind because someone thought that lately Mrs. Merkel was feature too often on the front page and they need some variety… Thats how it goes I guess.
Todays assignment 02.12.2009
One of the assignments for today was to take pictures of a youth ice hockey team during their training. I experienced really difficult lighting conditions there because the ice was shining bright and the background was rather dark – so either the forground was blown out or the background pitch-black.
Does anyone has any tips concerning sport photography on-ice?
Berliner Zeitung – Tear sheets
This post will be showcasing some of my work for the Berliner Zeitung during my internship there. I will be updating it once a week, with the new stuff on top. Tell me what you think.
Update, 22.12.2009: Allright, it wont work like this. It is to much work to gather all the .pdf files after the pictures got published in order to show them here. So here is the deal, I will only show tear sheets from “large” storys and with pictures I belive are worth sharing.
Berliner Zeitung, 24.12.2009
Berliner Zeitung, 03.12.2009
Berliner Zeitung, 09.12.2009
Berliner Zeitung, 21.11.2009
Berliner Zeitung, 19.11.2009
Moving back to Berlin
Starting next monday I will begin an intership at the Berliner Zeitung in… well, in Berlin. I am not sure how tight my schedule will be and how often I will be able to update my blog. But posting some pictures now and then shouldnt be to much of a problem. We´ll see.
Anyhow, this means that I cant continue to work on the story about Masu right now. I hope I will get the chance to finish it when i come back in 6 months.
The beginning of a story: Masu |Part 2
I continued working on the story about Masu and want to share the progress here with you. Everything, especially the video, is still in a very very early stage but I thought it might be interesting for some of you to follow this story growing.
So here we go, you can find the intro and some more images below. Tell me what you think and how I can make it better. Thank you.
The beginning of a story: Masu
I am really glad to say that I have started working on a new long-term reportage again. You may have seen the Portraits I have done some days ago of Masu, if not – go take a look! Anyhow, I decided to continue to work together with him and if everything goes well you can expect to see a nice Slideshow about him and his work till end of january.
First photos from yesterday below – tell me what you think about it!
The Bundeswehr in Sigmaringen
Another Slideshow done during the Wahlfahrt-Project.
Shooting with Masu
I had another shooting with the rapper Masu two days ago. He wanted a portrait for a flyer and a poster promoting his tour. This is what he got:
Hit the link below to see the B-Selection.
Camping at the Lake Constance
Here is a little Slideshow I produced for the Wahlfahrt.
Zoo-Shooting
Shooresh and me had a Fashion-Shooting in the Zoo today… I know by looking at the pictures you might not have guessed it because they clearly lack any animals. True, we were not allowed to go near them, we just used some parts of the zoo as some kind of backdrop.
Anyhow, below you can find a smal selection of the stuff we did today. All the images were lit with sb900 flashes (because I know I will get emails asking that).
Enjoy!
Too many impressions | wahlfahrt09.de
The Wahlfahrt09 is over and I want to share some stuff I have done during the trip here. This time it is all about random shots from the various citys I have been. All pictures taken while going for a walk or waiting for something/anything to happen.
Enjoy!
Leidingen
Konstanz
Sigmaringen
Leidingen
Erding
Konstanz
Bodensee
Konstanz
Too many portraits | wahlfahrt09.de
The Wahlfahrt09 is over and I want to share some stuff I have done during the trip here. This time it is all about portraits.
Enjoy!
Wahlfahrt09 on tour
I am currently working with the Wahlfahrt09-Team, so I am rather busy and wont be able to update my blog during the next month. However, I will try to write via twitter as often as I can.
Current Location: Back Home! / Wismar / Breitenfelde / Osnabrück / Duisburg-Marxloh / Wiesbaden / Leidingen / Schönau / Sigmaringen / Konstanz / Erding
New mob number: +49 170 2894961
Visual Diary: Trip to Amsterdam
Last week I was in Amsterdam with my girlfriend. It was our first trip together, so there was potentially pretty much that could have gone wrong… Luckily it didnt! Amsterdam is an awesome city and we had a great time there. Click the link below to see a short visual diary.
Srbija, photobook
Almost a year ago I traveled trough serbija and worked on an essay about the country and its people.
Some time ago, on my old website, I already uploaded it to be seen in its entirety. But somehow I didnt put it on the new site… my bad. Anyway, now it is here again and ready to be seen.
You can find some images and the link to the whole book below.
You can find the whole presentation here, and you can buy a hardcopy via blurb here. Enjoy.
Just some portraits 2
Raoul Zöllner, 24.07.2009
Carolin Behrend, 20.07.2009
Wojtek Scherp, 25.07.2009
Ezgi Polat, 19.07.2009
Like clouds when they sleep
This year we had to make a portrait series for university. Below you can see what I came up with.
All pictures were made on-location and with two smal strobes.
From left to right and top to bottom: Stephanie Fügen / Caroline Behrend / Tatjana Vidnevskaja / Mahtab Soleymani / Elena Fischer / Martina Füller / Joelle Delhaes / Elise Wormenor / Jila Pajutan
Over the Mountains – Part 2
So here comes the second part of our little trip.
A bit more action, a little less experimenting and no flash. I think it´s time to work on a real reportage again.
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Skaters near the Küchengarten in Hannover. 30.06.2009
Hannover Fashion Award 2009
Some pictures from the newly introduced Hannover Fashion Award, organized by the FH Hannover.
Hit the link below to see a lot more.
Over the Mountains – Part 1
I spent most of the last weekend in Saxon Switzerland on a trip with the guys from PK one photographing their training and experimenting with my flash.
More pictures soon to come.
Expect great things
Today me and Shooresh were scouting for a location for a job next sunday and did some test-shots. I think it has some potential. One flash used. More to come.
What a Flash can do
I was on assigment today and had to do some portraits in a clinical-environment at the MHH here in Hannover. The reason why I want to share this two pictures with you is not because I think they are especially awesome but because I am somwhat proud to have managed to set them up. If you are following this blog you might have noticed that I am slowly getting into the concept of working with flashes – and now I have encountered a situation in wich i was forced to find a way to light a scene in order to get the image I had in my head.
Anyhow, seems like all the fashion shootings werent for nothing… If you do something every day you will eventually get better at it. I am going there. I guess…
Hit the link below to see this scene without any extra lightning.
ReDesign Shooting
I had another fashion-shooting today, although it is not nearly as interesting as the work on a reportage it is nevertheless very educational if you want to learn something about lightning and using flashes… seriously.
Designed by Joelle Delhaes
Designed by Elena Fischer and Elise Wormenor
Designed by Nora Plieth and Vanessa von Polheim
Just some portraits
Raoul Zöllner in an abandoned factory. Berlin, 06.12.2008
Maria Rathjen in her garden. Hamburg, 28.04.2007
Josephine Müller. Berlin, 16.05.2007
Erik Schütz and his girlfriend near the Märkeisches Museum. Berlin, 17.06.2007
My favorite time of the year
“He carefully picked his cast of clouds, watched them intently as they swirled in before the lens and hoped the sun would break in concert.“
- H. E. Clark
First steps into Fashion-Photography
I was recently asked to take pictures of some T-Shirts and Blazers some friends of mine have made. Nothing comercial, they needed it for their portfolio.
Although fashion is not the field I usualy work in, it was nevertheless quite fun and a good exercise.
Designed by Elise Wormenor
Designed by Elena Fischer
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Ezgi Polat, near Häckischer Markt - Berlin.
Ezgi Polat, near Häckischer Markt - Berlin.
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Carolin Behrend is washing the dishes in the kitchen of a smal cinema in Berlin.
>> click here to see the whole post…
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An unknown couple searching for shelter under a bridge in Berlin. 26.03.2009
Erik Schütz and an unknown girl posing for a picture in Berlin. 27.03.2009
GO Magazin 2008/2009
My work about the Immigrants Backyard has been published in this years edition of GO!Magazin, which is an anual publication from the journalism-school in Reutlingen. The (german) text was written by Nicola Meier.
Grigori Dor
We had an assigment for school to shoot an artist from Berlin. I asked the very talented painter Grigori Dor if he was interested… and he was.
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A ring of smoke floating over Andys head in my old room in Berlin. 27.02.2009
Andy Spyra standing on a golf-curse infront of the Potsdammer Platz in Berlin. 27.02.2009
Resting with Andy after a long day of walking around in Berlin. 27.02.2009
Fluter June 2008
Click the image for full view
In early 2007 I have been doing alot about Parkour with the guys from Team ADD from Berlin. One year later the german magazine Fluter did a feature about new kinds of sport and bought one of my images.
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The reflection of a unknown man walking through the streets of Hannover. 23.01.2009
A seagull flies over the Ihme river in the center of Hannover. 23.01.2009
Photoshooting at Solvey
I currently have an assigment where my job is to make some PR pictures for the Medical Documentation department at my Fachhochschule which they want to use for their (yet-to-come) website. So yesterday I was at Solvey, an international chemical and pharmaceutical company, in order to photograph a graduate from the Med.Doc. department.
It was very strange for me since I usually dont tell people what to do, how to move and where to stand. But this time everythig was exactly about that… giving orders.
So much left to learn…
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Magazin des Glücks 1
A few days ago I was assisting a good friend of mine while shooting a staging based on the novel “magazin des glücks” written by Dea Loher
Again for clarification, the images below are theater-photography, since posed. Not by me, but by her – I just tried to make the best of it and to practice my eye…
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UEFA Cup: Germany vs. Turkey
Back in June 2008 we had a little project with our photojournalism class where we had to cover the public-viewing in Hannover during the soccer match of Germany vs. Turkey. Then we put it in a little slideshow where everyone of us could show up to 3 images, you can take a look at it here.
Here is what I had when the day was over.
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Double exposure
A project I had to do last year for school, I kinda like how your eyes need some time to adapt to the certain layers of the images. But I doubt that you can use double exposures in a serious reportage. Or has anyone a counter-example?
Fashion Show Hannover
It has been a while since i got the task from my professor to cover a fashion show organized by the fashion-designer class at our university. At first I thought it will be realy boring, but because i had the chance to go behind the scenes it tourned out realy interessting and was a great exercise.
By the way, the girls did realy a great job!
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Castor 2008
Back in autumn of 2008 I headed out with some friends to shoot the Castor-Transport which was coming from La Hague (france) all the way to Gorleben (germany).
One could probably assume that it was pretty exciting with all the police runing around, shouting and trying to catch the demonstrators who were blocking the railway… But to be honest, it was kinda dissapointing. I had the impression that the people were not fighting for their rights or their belive, but only for the hell of it. Pretty much like the 1. May in Berlin.
Architecture
I always thought that architectual photography was the most boring thing on earth to do, how was it possible to spend so much time and energy in shooting bricks and metal and glass and whatnot… I didnt get it, and after trying (and failing miserably), I still dont…
Silence
Well yes, I kinda do have my silent moments. I just forget about them.
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Random shots from Hannover
Back in the days where I had something called “free time” I used to go out for a walk and just shoot anything that looked interesting, I should do this more often… Not that the pictures are of any value, but its a good practise and simply fun.
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Harald Martenstein
It has been quite some while since i took this pictures of Harald Martenstein… and most of the time when I look at pictures I have done in the past i feel the urgent whish to redo them now because i have the feeling they could become so much better. Possibly that is just an illusion, never had the chance to test it.
What a storyboard shouldnt look like
So the other day a friend of mine and me had to do a homework-assignment for university, which was basicaly to shoot our way from home to school… sounds dull? True.
We tried to make the best of it but i would lie if i say that we had fun. Anyway, you can se what we came up with below. The images on the left are from me and the ones on the right are from Andy. And you should ever come in the unconfortable situation of doing something like this, keep in mind that vertical images are not used in a storyboard… who would have thought?
Just a few changes
As you probably have noticed there are a few changes going on around here. Reason for that is that i quit working with my old webmaster and took the things in my own hands, lets see where this will lead.
If you have been following this blog, the next week might get a bit boring for you, because I am going to repost some images and texts from the old system… just because I want to have it online and available. So please bare with me till realy new stuff comes.
Anyhow, since this site is still very fresh there might be some bugs in the system – if you find any please let me know and i will (try) to fix them. I would also like to hear your first impression of the new site: great? good? average? worse then before? Let me know!
P.S.
The feed adress for my site has also changed, if you want to get notified about new posts to this blog and my portfolio feel free to enter this adress – feeds.feedburner.com/milosdjuric – into the feedreader of your choice.