Follow Up Notes from Polina Plotnikova

Hope your club enjoyed my presentation tonight. Please find attached my follow up notes.

I have two more talks you might be interested in.

My ‘Small World’ talk is sort of derivative from my still life – art doll photography. I cover a bit of history of ball jointed dolls collecting (BJD) and talk about various aspects of photographing dolls, adjusting scale of lighting, sourcing props etc. It is one hour presentation with time for Q&A covering aspects of photographic history of collectable art dolls and creative visual stories with them. To get general idea you can have a look at my website at doll photography gallery:

https://www.polinaplotnikova.com/dolls

My Lensbaby talk “Capturing the mood” is designed with special audience in mind and would benefit those who are generally interested in alternative special effects in camera as opposed to post-processing. It is based exclusively on my work with Lensbaby lenses and optics and it includes my travels, landscape, dance, portraiture and wildlife photography – all taken with special effect lenses. I normally don’t offer this talk to clubs unless they have seen my first talk, based on my conventional studio work. It is not a technical talk on how to shoot with special effect lenses but it does have a review on what visual effect each lens can produce and what type of photographic subject it is best for (well, in my personal opinion of course).

If you feel that there is enough interest for any of these talks in your club do let me know.

Kind regards,

Polina