BORUT PETERLIN in a rabbit hole of photography

Blaž Porenta is an illustrator that has an exhibition in Grossmann festival of fantastic film and I was assigned to do his portrait for Mladina weekly. I’ve been doing this kind of wacky portraits for five years now, every week (at least) one and I’ve done dozen portraits of illustrators and frankly I didn’t had a concept how will I photograph him. I was hoping for cataclysmic clouds that actually happened during the weekend, but on this Friday it was sunny time. I was thinking whole Thursday, but no good concept came along.

Before I woke up on Friday I had a dream where I saw the image exactly how I’ve done it later the day. He is doing his illustrations with computer and I thought to use a mouse as a jail ball and make his face as a tattoo on his leg. I’ve done it just the same way as it’s described in this tutorial. Although I knew the technique, I love to check youtube to see how other people are doing it. I recommend this approach. You learn a lot.

Don’t forget to rate and comment. I was told it’s good for your skin and my ego! Not to mention SEO!

PS: Fotopub Festival of Documentary Photography is starting today and I’ll do some reports from there. See you!

Last week I was playing on a chess tournament in my town of Dolenjske Toplice. I wasn’t feeling very good and I was playing even worse, but the level was really high. It was 110 participants from at least four countries and three of them were chess Grandmasters! When I lost a game fast (quite few times) I did some photography and here is the result.

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Fotopub festival of documentary photography is starting in ten days and this is an interview with mentors for multimedia Mike Lusmore and Rebecca Harley from UK.
Links: http://www.fotopub.com
http://www.rebeccaharley.com/
http://www.mikelusmore.com/

PS: Few days ago I’ve forgot to embed a video podcast on Mladina’s special issue “Interviews 2011“. I’ve updated the post and if you didn’t saw it on Youtube or on Facebook, I recommend to check it out. LINK.

Alenka Slavinec is an emerging photographer and she have an exhibition Slovenia in us that’s still open at Križanke, Ljubljana. She photographed Lipizzaner horses so I decided to photograph her at Hipodrom Stožice / Ljubljana, Slovenia. I was looking for a good point of view, but this hippodrome is not a s picturesque as the one in Lipica, as you can see from the image bellow. I have a simple and efficient rule. If I can’t use the background then I don’t use it. I know it’s not much of philosophy, but **** ***, it works for me! I don’t need to search for wisdom on pathetic blogs in a desperate hope to learn portrait photography, don’t I? HA!!! I follow good blogs like Scot Kelby’s blog, Joe McNally’s blog, Creativelive and foremost a blog that resembles as a life’s story of my good friend Jean-Christophe. JC is coming to Fotopub Festival in two weeks!

Where was I? Aha, so I decided to make a tight shot, almost detail like shot. I used a Balcar 1500 Ws with a softbox that was set above left, Nikon D3, Nikkor 105 macro lens. Ana Jarc was assisting me with studio lights and Živa was handling the horse.

Alenka Slavinec at her exhibition in Križanke, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Živa and her horse OKI at Hippodromme Stožice, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Mladina issued a special summer issue “Interviews 2011″. I’ve made these portraits. I hope you’ll like the portraits, the videolog and the reading. Don’t forget to rate & comment. THX, B5
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In today’s issue of Mladina my portrait of Mirko Vorkapić is published. He has a new CD out with his wicked rap rhymes. He is also Mauy Thai fighter and we did this portrait on the end of training. We train together in Scorpion Gym Novo mesto.

A video podcast an insight of my Tour de Dayton work in progress project.

Receipt for usage of a kitchen for real men:
1) remove wheels from your roller blades
2) put it in the oven on 70C for 10 min (ventilator on!)
3) Put hot roller blades on your leg
4) fasten your laces as tight as you can
5) After 30 min take off roller blades
6) Screw back your wheels
7) come to hockey training today, on Sunday or on Wednesday at 19.00 in Dolenjske Toplice!

PS: I suggest that a real man gets in a kitchen when his wife is at sleep!