Interview with Tomas Opitz [tomasopitz]

Do you have an online gallery where one can view your photos?

www.tomasopitz.net instacanv.as/tomasopitz www.facebook.com/tomasopitzphotography

For how long have you done photography? How did you begin?

For more than 20 years, I started with it like a hobby in the high school

What has been your education as a photographer?

I took some courses but can say that I'm autodidact.

Please list any exhibitions in which you have participated.

•Own Show „Beaches” Gustavo Misioner Attelier – Bordeaux - France, 2011 •Own Show „Hommage á New York”, FUGA – Budapest Center of Architecture, Budapest, 2011 •Own Show “3in1”,Kempinski Hotel Corvinus – Kempinski Gallery, Budapest – Hungary, 2011 •„Organikus környezet”, Újlipotvárosi Galéria, Budapest, 2011 •„VI. Ménes-patak Menti Nemzetközi Fotóművészeti Feszt. ”, Szécsény, 2011 •„Applied Nostalgia”, Budapest - Belgrád, 2011 •„Exhibition”, Architectural photographers open association, Budapest – Hungary, 2010 •Own Show „Caring”, Dr. Bruckner – Neubecker gemeinschaftspraxis, Pulheim – Germany; German Dental Center, Budapest – Hungary, 2009 •„Crisis in de KOP ?”, KOP van WAZ, Wijk aan Zee – the Netherlands, 2009 •„Womex 07”, Wonderland (klein) Gallery, Cologne - Germany, Casa de la Música, Budapest Hungary, 2008 •„Tere”, ArtBázis Gallery, Budapest - Hungary, 2008 •Own Show “Porrúa”, Cultural Village of Europe, Palkonya, 2007 – Porrúa, 2008 •Own Show “Venezuela”, Fotocella Gallery, Budapest – Hungary, January 2007 •Own Show “Latin-American Cultural Week”, Parti Gallery, Pécs – Hungary, May 2006 •„Budapest a colored city”, Building ceramics by Zsolnay, ERNST museum, Budapest - Hungary, 2006 •„The Hungarian heritage”, Sisa Béla’s itinerant exhibition, Hungary – Italy - Belgium, 2005 – 2006 •Own Show, “Beautiful girls, ugly photos”, Fotocella Gallery, Budapest - Hungary, 2005 •„Europe Undergoing a change – Man-made Environment, Protecting Values“, Budapest 2007 •„Transzflexió”, Gödör Klub Gallery, Budapest - Hungary, 2004 •„Taken in Hungary”, Museum of Hungarian Photography, Kecskemét - Hungary, 2003 •„Latin American Cultural Week”, City’s History museum - Tímár house, Pécs – Hungary, 2003 •Hispanic Photography Auction, in benefit of Daniela Chappard Foundation, Caracas, 2002 •„One and a half centuries of Venezuelan-Hungarian Photography”, Centro de Arte La Estancia – Acciòn cultural PDVSA, Caracas - Venezuela, 2001

Please list any awards for your work.

•„Europe Undergoing a change – Man-made Environment, Protecting Values“, III. Prize, Budapest-Hungary, 2007 •„The Zsolnay manufacture in the media“, II Prize, Pécs-Hungary, 2005

What is your favourite type of photography?

Architectural, Streetphotography and Landscape. Portrait.

What do you try to express through your photography?

My feelings, my interpretation of the world.

How do you choose your subjects?

What type of preparation do you do before undertaking the photo session?

When it's a commission I use to go to have a look of the ambient and the space, but when I'm traveling I just take what I see at the moment.

Do you normally photograph with a purpose already in mind, or do you let yourself go with the flow?

After I found a topic which sometimes just arrived by itself, then is when I start to photograph with that topic in my mind

Canon, Nikon, Fuji, Sigma, Olympus, Sony, Pentax...which do you place your bets on and why?

Canon = ergonomic Hasselblad = class and high quality

Describe your current equipment: cameras, lenses, computers, accessories...

• Canon EOS 1D Mark III • 50 mm macro f 2.5 • 16-35 mm f 2.8 • 70-200 mm f 2.8 IS

What software and plug-ins do you use to retouch and manage your photos?

Are you a good salesperson of your work? In what should you improve?

I guess yes, but I have to improve on the insistence to customers

Which past masters of photography do you most admire?

André Kertész Richard Avedon Yousuf Karsh

Are technology and digital retouching reducing the gap between professionals and amateurs?

Unfortunately yes, but there are some clients who really knows what they need and want.

What is your team of habitual collaborators like?

Assistant, make-up artist, Stylist

With which other photographers do you normally team up with or do sessions with?

www.morismoreno.com www.silverdance.hu www.ricardoparra.com

Do you consider yourself more technical or more artistic?

What have you learned about the art of framing and composition?

I also teach it, and I learn much more viewing others work.

How does one develop the instinct of knowing when to press the shutter release button?

It's all in your mind, but I think if you're strongly open mind, you'll press the shutter release button faster.

When should one use film, and when should one use digital?

It's up to you ... may be for personal work should use film ...

Does photography have the recognition that it should have in contemporary art museums?

Yes and it's growing up

Which websites for photographers do you frequently visit?

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