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Heheeey How are you? I’m back from work, I already had sup­per and now ready to write about some­thing inter­est­ing, or about somebody…cause today I’m going to intro­duce you to Robert Mekis.

I’m not going to bore you with his biog­ra­phy (how­ever, I think it’s also inter­est­ing), because the most impor­tant and inter­est­ing part is his art­work. In one word I can describe him as a dig­i­tal artist. At his deviantart pro­file page we can see, that he describes him­self as a Mad Sci­en­tist. When I will be talk­ing with him next time, I’ll def­i­nitely ask, why he thinks so aobut himself.

Lots of read­ers may know him after his great dig­i­tal draw­ings. Other may know him for his awe­some land­scape and water scape pic­tures. If for some rea­son you’ve never seen any of his works, or just don’t know who is Robert Mekis then this arti­cle is for you.

Today I’ve talked with him ask­ing for per­mis­sion to put his art­work on my blog. That was the sec­ond or third time we talked at all. The first one was about a year ago, when i was buy­ing a new LCD for myself and look­ing for some advise. What can I tell about him? He is a very friendly per­son, and we quickly found the lan­guage we both under­stood cor­rectly. He told me a lit­tle bit about his work, his pic­tures and how he was shoot­ing them.

So, today I’m going to tell You a lit­tle bit about his art­work. From the begin­ning of the post I put some of his dig­i­tal draw­ings. Because his main pro­file is dig­i­tal draw­ing and that is if he hasn’t change his job, then this is exactly what he does for liv­ing. And I think he is doing great. Just look, how he com­bines col­ors, how he works with high­lights and shad­ows. Look­ing at his draw­ings you feel that some­thing is hap­pen­ing at the moment. Like the draw­ing was made from men­tal pic­ture of some scene.

What I like the most is how he is using blurred objects and shin­ing of lamps. They really keep the scene in motion, keep it alive. And again, the shadows…they fill pic­ture with mys­te­ri­ous atmos­phere. His awe­some tech­nique in draw­ing clouds, adding also ambi­ent col­ors to them.

What can I say? He is a mas­ter of dig­i­tal brush

Some years ago(I don’t know exactly) he tried him­self also in pho­tog­ra­phy and he has shown excel­lent results in this class of art. Lots of DA mem­bers often ask him, how does he shoot such col­or­ful and sharp pic­tures? Some­body thinks, that as he is a dig­i­tal artist, then maybe pho­to­shops his pic­tures to make them more beau­ti­ful. What can I say. At first I thought, that they’re com­pletely right. But, it depends on what to con­sider a photo-manipulation.

Adding more con­trast and work­ing with lev­els or curves? Well, that’s not a photo-manipulation. It is photo-correction. But any­way, what is a secret of good photos?

As Robert said him­self, that’s a good tri­pod, cokin fil­ters and what is the most impor­tant — the good light. I was amazed, when i got to know, that some­times he visit a place for sev­eral times with­out tak­ing any pic­tures, and just because of bad light.

How do you know, when the light will be good? Weather fore­cast. This is the onli­est pos­si­ble way to get to know about the weather. And of course, you should know some beau­ti­ful places.

So, there is no secret at all, how to be a good pho­tog­ra­pher. You just have to shoot, shoot and shoot again, but when you’ll be shoot­ing, think with your head and not with your fifth spot…

And what about the qual­ity of pic­tures. If we look at the cam­eras, that Robert use — that’s sim­ple Canon Eos 300D with kit lens. And who told there is no pos­si­bil­i­ties to take a good pic­ture with kit lens? There is no secret about the qual­ity of his pic­tures. He often uses Panoramic shots, what gives him addi­tional pix­els and pix­els give him addi­tional quality.

And can you imag­ine, that this per­son was shoot­ing for just a year, when he’d already done such a great pic­tures? Damn, Robert, give us a master-class…

Any­way, I think I told enough about Robert Mekis and as I don’t want you to be bored with my Eng­lish full of mis­takes and repet­i­tive words, I’m going to leave you one on one with his works. Just relax and enjoy his pic­tures

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