Jobs: Alexei Gorshkov, a professional photographer

Today our guest is the producer and photographer studio "icon photography"- Alexei Gorshkov. If you are interested in photography, the course of the life of the studio and lots and lots and lots! fotozheleza, then you must not miss this interview.

What do you do in your work?

My name is Alexei Gorshkov, I am a producer and photographer studio "icon photography». Our studio is engaged in the organization and conduct of advertising photography. As a hobby project, we also possess fotoresursom "Photographic"Where do you perform the role of one of the editors.

We here in the «Icon photography», completely bonkers at the pictures to the same occupation involves a lot of work "on his feet": shooting in the studio, on location. When we have a "window" between commercial filming - we shoot something for ourselves. Therefore, to be honest, in its final workplace, I am not so often - either on the set or meetings, or next to a designer when we are working with the footage.
. We have a small office in Kiev Pechersk near m, so the view from one of our three balconies - my favorite.

How does your workplace?

That's just my desktop.

What hardware are using?

I am the last "not makovodov" in the office, using a laptop Acer Aspire 6530 Windows 7. For this workplace I do mostly text and administrative work, so I do not particularly important configuration of the computer, to be honest, I do not even know what it is. Major work programs - a web browser, office suite and standard messengers. In principle, I do not use e-mail clients, only through the web interface, the main browser - chrome, second - firefox. This is due to the fact that I was used to divide the "workers" and "entertainment" sites for browsers. Constantly working messengers - gtalk and skype. Perhaps we can say that using facebook as an Internet messenger and such itself a surrogate email.

Telephone by the most usual me - simple dialer Nokia with a black and white display. All functions of the smartphone took the iPad (first, not going to change in the near future). He also serves as a home computer, at home, I mostly watch movies, browse interesting articles for yourself (very like the app instapaper), And sometimes respond to urgent emails (using a very good app Adobe IdeasIf we are talking about some kind of image, editing and so on.) Folder with the current tasks, documents, briefs and so on. keep right on your desktop, there's usually chaos). Therefore, the screenshot will not. Bimonthly I make out all of the structure and make a backup (keep a lot of things right in google docs).

Fun fact: I can not stand on the spirit of "penny" every day unknowingly spread from pockets obrazovashuyusya delivery of iron money, so in our office almost every horizontal surface there are plenty of coins. Given that we've got a whole lot of shoot on film - it accumulates a large number of boxes of plastic. Recently, our cleaning lady, which is apparently very annoying start zasovat coins in the boxes, so that the entire studio is littered with such a kind of piggy bank.

Paper use only stickers and sheets of A4, they make some notes during meetings and conferences, all the documents we have in electronic form. Notepad does not.

For direct imaging, we use Macs - one aimag and two 15-inch Macbook Pro. My "second jobs" is located directly next to the first - in front of our post-processing genius Andrei femoral.

Here is a selection and sorting of footage. As I have said, we are very much on a film shoot, to digitize and work with Scan - my "third job".

It is worth to the last MB Pro with Apple Cinema Display and Scanner Nikon Coolscan 8000. Here photographer working, part-author of the blog "I love Leica"Roman Nikolaev. Scans with medium format negatives occupy about 450 MB and can be obtained of about 75 megapixels, this is the only computer that allows them to handle without slowdown. By the way, our fridge in the kitchen is as follows:

Profit, except for reagents, there is usually nothing :)

On-site survey we provided Macbook Pro previous generation:

What software use?

However, it happens that we do on-site media center on some events or great shots and take with all the machines in place. On Macs equipped with a standard set of software for professional photographers: Lightroom, Photoshop CS5 / CS4, software for remote control of Canon cameras - Digital photo professional, tool for the scanner (Vuescan, Coolscan), for the camera driver (or his people that we sometimes take for rent, for example, for Phocus Hasselblad'ov). Operational information is stored on terrabaytnoy Time Capsule (it is also wi-fi access point), which acts as a shared network drive to all of our IDD. Archives - on Western Digital drives.

So it turns out that we have a very peculiar attitude to working with the place, on the one hand, everyone has their own, the other - we are constantly changing places, depending on the felt is used to challenges. I often sit behind other laptop than his, sort of a kaleidoscope.

Hardware configuration administrator knows our coming, we did no one bother filling, the main thing - to comfortably and there was "slowdown" and crashes when working with large volumes of graphics information. We look forward to the emergence of a large amount of media interface thunderbolt.

Most of all, we, of course, bother our cameras. Especially for LH, we have collected and photographed all the cameras that we use. I had to take digital cameras. I think the photo-geeks will be interesting.

About all those things I just can tell you in great detail, but that's another story, just list that is in the picture.
The main "combat camera" studio - Canon EOS 5D Mark II c lenses:
- Carl Zeiss Distagon T * 3,5 / 18 ZE (very cool neavtofokusny wide-angle);
- Canon 24mm f / 1.4L II USM EF;
- Canon EF 50mm f / 1.2L USM;
- Canon EF 85mm F / 1.2L II USM;
- Canon 100mm f / 2.8 USM EF Macro
- Canon 135mm f / 2.0 L USM EF
Very like good quality pictures, so use reasonable fixes, but there are two shooting reportage zoom.
- Canon 24-70mm f / 2.8L USM EF and Canon EF 70-200mm f / 2.8L IS USM EF II

In case:
- my favorite ranging Sontax G2 c lenses;
- Contax G Zeiss 28mm f / 2.8 Biogon;
- Contax G Zeiss 45mm f / 2 Planar;
- Contax G Zeiss 90mm f / 2.8 Sonnar;
- Close to a briefcase - a set of "Leek» - Leica M7, Leica III (camera 1933 release in perfect working condition, when This also removes the good, bringing us all a lot of fun), the digital Leica M9 (perhaps the most amazing camera of all).
- Another - Leica M3 was not included in the frame due to the fact that is on maintenance in Germany.

Lenses:
- Leica Elmarit-M 28 mm f / 2.8 ASPH,
- Carl Zeiss Biogon T * 2,8 / 21 ZM,
- Carl Zeiss Sonnar T * 1,5 / 50 ZM,
- Leica Noctilux 50 / 0.95 ASPH,
- the aperture fifty dollars in the world Summilux-M 50 \ 1,4 (Ver.2);
- Sumicron-M 90 \ 2 (II ver.);
- Summilux 35 \ 1,4 (Ver.1);
- Voigtlander APO-Lanthar 90 / 3.5;
- Voigtlander 75 \ 2.5
- Above the German rangefinder cameras - Hasselblad 503CW + A12 Film Back c lenses;
- Sonnar T * 4/150 CF and the Planar T * 2.8 / 80 CFE;
- For accurate metering - fleshmetr Sekonic L-758 DR
- And, of course, Iphone 3gs beksteydzh for video and pictures.

There is still Olympus pen e-p3 with interchangeable lenses for bloggers "Photographica", she did not hit the frame.

I think this time will be enough, we restrict the cameras will not have to talk about the studio.

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