Presentation Events

Polina Plotnikova FRPS: they say that a photographer is either a picture taker or a picture maker; Polina is firmly in the picture makers' club. She prefers the kind of an image that conveys her feelings and emotions rather than remains a mere statement of fact. Prior to becoming a full-time photographer Polina studied Art History at university, and then worked in several museums and galleries. Her favourite studio based photography is flower portraiture and still life. For outdoor photographs she likes taking flowers using special effect or vintage lenses. She teaches photography and gives talks to various photo clubs and associations. She also enjoys creating impressionistic landscape images of collectable artisan ball-jointed dolls. Polina is an international awards winner.

Presentations

Flower portraits: Polina’s approach is that for every flower and plant that she photographs she tries to find a unique look to unlock its hidden beauty. She does not aim to create an accurate botanical image, rather, a creative interpretation.

Still Life: this talk is about composition, light, textures and colours that she uses when creating her still life setups. Her approach is to start by creating an image in her mind’s eye and proceeding after all details have been thought through. There will be a few schematic illustrations to show her studio hardware and to demonstrate various stages of assembling a still life setup.

Small world: part of this presentation will be about her art doll photography, not to be mistaken for toy photography. The dolls are highly collectable, posable, ball-jointed-dolls, created by remarkable craftsmen and are effectively real works of art. Polina will give a bit of history of ball jointed dolls and talk about various aspects of photographing them for example, adjusting the scale of lighting, and sourcing props etc. She will also talk about visualising creative ideas and implementing them in front of her camera with her doll models as examples.

Polina is a very popular speaker and this is an excellent opportunity to hear her in person.