Spotlight on Photomagician, Radek Makar

Today our highlight is shining on marriage ceremony and elopement photographer Radek Makar, aka Photomagician.

Applying his signature movie-like, vintage and moody edits, Radek maintains the integrity of each and every fleeting memory while turning them into a one-of-a-variety piece of artwork.

Radek views the environment with ponder and tells visual tales of adventurous couples that previous a life span. He also has some excellent tales of his own to share with us today.

Inform us much more about you. How did you get into marriage ceremony pictures?

My technique to wedding ceremony pictures doesn’t arrive from a images course at university, or from my grandad’s adore for cameras. It will come from the very good aged days when I worked at weddings as a magician. In fact, which is also where the identify Photomagician came from. That’s the place I honed my solution and uncovered to be everywhere I’m required in advance of I’m desired.

Becoming a magician taught me searching for feelings uncovered in these short times of excitement when our coronary heart connects with the brain at a result in of a track, or a scent we recognise. It taught me to foresee times. It taught me that surprise is greater than a warning. It taught me that inquiring for smiles is not the way to see real happiness. It taught me that legitimate expression of joy comes at an work and that people normally disguise in their individual shell.

Each individual day I take pics, I’m nonetheless that exact person who walks into the room unrecognised and drops a little something on the floor to get awareness as a substitute of asserting myself. I’m a photographer, but deep down I’m nevertheless an entertainer and a little boy for whom the earth is entire of question. This is why my strategy is unique. This is why you are going to like me taking your pictures.

What do you appreciate most about your function?

It has to be conference and expending time with new people today. I’m in a comfortable situation of getting able to acquire a lot less weddings per yr than numerous other photographers. Because of that, every solitary few I function with is a wonderful match on quite a few amounts. We have a good deal in prevalent so discussions arrive normally and soon after a calendar year or so of remaining in touch, some of these associations convert into friendships. In a way – I get paid for making pals!

Who, or what, conjures up you?

I’m a film buff. A whole lot of my inspiration arrives from the cinema. When I observe movies I never just love them for the amusement value they deliver. I deconstruct them, pay back consideration to the use of adverse space, the color toning, the stream that dictates the tempo of the movie and the equipment used to attain the ideal mood.

When I shoot weddings, people are the issues I spend consideration to. Living in the undeniably attractive Highlands amongst cosy historic cities, and lovely cultural traditions may just have a little bit of impact on my function way too.

In which do you see your self in five years’ time?

Ideally taking pictures the identical variety of weddings in Scotland and travelling a lot less. I’ve been lucky to have a quite worthwhile occupation in administration consulting, a single in images and a short while ago as a jewellery designer at Lelya.

My do the job has allowed me to see a large component of the beautiful world that we reside on. Now it’s time to get hitched (in just beneath a calendar year!), start off a relatives and give back to the group.

Tell us a secret…

I occur from the Polish island of Wolin. 1 of two in the state. It has deep-rooted Slavic and Viking traditions, obtaining been a residence to a legendary city of Vineta at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea. The fantasy advanced all around the tradition of the medieval emporium called Jomsborg. Rising up I was surrounded and fascinated by those myths, and the relics of the days past.

On a day off, where by will we discover you?

Likely out strolling in the hills, tending to my greenhouse or sitting by the fire pit with a guide. It’s really hard to say as times off are a scarce useful resource in my diary!

What Photomagician’s partners say:

“We experienced the enjoyment of owning Radek as our wedding day photographer in May possibly 2021, this was postponed from 2020 due to Covid 19. To start with he was so comprehending and adaptable in the course of the rescheduling which created things so considerably much easier. When the large working day came he was great to be all over and was laidback while nonetheless producing positive all the information were being accounted for. At last, the photos we acquired have been far better than ever imagined! From extraordinary, artistic photographs to attractive personal details that seriously introduced back all the reminiscences of the working day, all the pics are unbelievable. The time invested obtaining pictures as a pair immediately after the ceremony was also a spotlight of the working day, thanks to Radek earning it calm and enjoyable. We would both definitely suggest him as he definitely captured the day and us flawlessly!”

“A enormous huge thank you to Radek for not only becoming an astounding photographer for our elopement wedding, but for remaining this kind of a attractive human being all over the full organizing procedure, and earning us and our witnesses come to feel so comfy and satisfied all through the marriage ceremony day alone. So happy in fact, that we didn’t want him to leave at the conclusion of the day! From the minute my now partner and I had our initial assembly with him (on the web many thanks to Covid), we felt like we were being interacting with a close friend. We appreciate his model of images and required specifically that for our wedding ceremony with no limits or inhibitions. A moodier, a lot more carefree vibe. He was pretty open up to any concepts that we had, but we had been additional than pleased for him to do his factor as that’s what drew us to him in the very first spot. His satisfied, enthusiastic, and calming presence truly created our working day even much more specific and we have the two been blown absent by the slideshow he presented of our marriage with a amazing assortment of photographs. His function is all the things that we envisioned and then some!”

“Using Radek as our wedding photographer was certainly a single of the best possibilities we created and we could not be happier with the company he and Pavel (videographer) provided. The shots they created are inventive and timeless and we adore sharing them with our close friends and family. We got on truly very well with Radek from the original Zoom meeting (Covid marriage) onwards and he really created us come to feel at relieve on the day. Radek has continued to deliver a fantastic company right after the wedding and is constantly quick to reply.”

In adore with Photomagician’s moody, cinematic fashion? We are as well! To see a lot more of the magic he results in head on in excess of to Photomagician’s internet site.