“When I got a good photo, I automatically had a disturbing thought: can I surpass myself and get an even better one?”
How do you incorporate color, light, and texture in your photography?
It is mainly inspired by painting, in particular French Impressionism, from time to time I turn to it in search of color/light/texture ideas for compositions.
How do you handle post-processing and editing for your abstract images? Tell us about your process step by step.
Before I start processing images, I am in search of inspiration, usually I draw it from music and painting and it can take a huge amount of time, sometimes I can approach the same image for several months until I find the color that I think is suitable. As for the post-processing itself, it’s nothing special, I only do color correction: I always start with the curves and that’s where most of the work happens, plus some changes in Color Balance, White Balance, Exposure, Dynamic Range sliders.
What challenges do you face when capturing photographs, and how do you overcome them?
I would, perhaps, single out the problem of a temporary lack of inspiration and motivation, let’s say, a creative crisis. From time to time this crisis inevitably comes and each time it adapts and takes different forms. In the early stages it was a matter of racing with yourself. When I got a good photo, I automatically had a disturbing thought: can I surpass myself and get an even better one? it becomes like an endless race with myself, an exhausting race, I did not think that photography would bring me to suffering. Does everything have a limit? Later it took the form that I stopped being surprised, almost everything seems ordinary and not pleasing to the eye, if earlier it was enough for me to see a couple of good shots or picturesque paintings to ignite inspiration, now this is no longer the case and I definitely need more time than before. How do I deal with it? I just keep going, reviewing and rethinking the archives, trying to find a new approach, experimenting. And, as a rule, something beautiful is always born out of these crises, maybe they are necessary for progress. We deserve to see the best versions of ourselves.
How do you engage viewers and encourage them to interpret your images?
I don’t really engage/encourage the viewer, everyone is free to interpret them as they want, like me and the viewer forms their own experience, albeit through the prism of my vision.
