Spotlight on Photomagician, Radek Makar

Nowadays our spotlight is shining on marriage and elopement photographer Radek Makar, aka Photomagician.

Employing his signature movie-like, vintage and moody edits, Radek maintains the integrity of each and every fleeting memory while turning them into a one particular-of-a-kind piece of art.

Radek views the earth with surprise and tells visible tales of adventurous partners that very last a life time. He also has some superb stories of his have to share with us currently.

Notify us more about you. How did you get into marriage images?

My solution to wedding day pictures does not occur from a pictures system at school, or from my grandad’s love for cameras. It comes from the fantastic old days when I labored at weddings as a magician. In fact, that is also in which the name Photomagician came from. Which is where I honed my tactic and discovered to be just about everywhere I’m necessary before I’m essential.

Getting a magician taught me looking for thoughts exposed in these transient times of excitement when our heart connects with the mind at a bring about of a tune, or a odor we recognise. It taught me to anticipate times. It taught me that shock is greater than a warning. It taught me that inquiring for smiles is not the way to see true pleasure. It taught me that legitimate expression of joy will come at an effort and hard work and that folks frequently cover in their individual shell.

Every single day I just take images, I’m however that identical male who walks into the home unrecognised and drops some thing on the ground to get interest instead of announcing myself. I’m a photographer, but deep down I’m even now an entertainer and a tiny boy for whom the world is full of question. This is why my strategy is distinctive. This is why you are going to like me using your photographs.

What do you appreciate most about your perform?

It has to be assembly and paying time with new individuals. I’m in a snug situation of being capable to just take fewer weddings for every yr than quite a few other photographers. For the reason that of that, each single few I get the job done with is a fantastic match on lots of ranges. We have a large amount in prevalent so discussions occur normally and just after a calendar year or so of currently being in touch, some of all those relationships transform into friendships. In a way – I get compensated for generating friends!

Who, or what, conjures up you?

I’m a motion picture buff. A large amount of my inspiration arrives from the cinema. When I observe videos I don’t just enjoy them for the enjoyment value they offer. I deconstruct them, spend notice to the use of destructive area, the colour firming, the move that dictates the tempo of the motion picture and the equipment applied to attain the proper mood.

When I shoot weddings, those people are the things I fork out awareness to. Living in the undeniably lovely Highlands amongst cosy historic cities, and lovely cultural traditions may well just have a little bit of affect on my perform as well.

Where by do you see you in five years’ time?

With any luck , taking pictures the exact variety of weddings in Scotland and travelling significantly less. I have been fortuitous to have a very gratifying job in administration consulting, one particular in photography and not too long ago as a jewelry designer at Lelya.

My do the job has authorized me to see a huge section of the wonderful planet that we live on. Now it is time to get hitched (in just under a yr!), start out a family and give back to the neighborhood.

Tell us a secret…

I arrive from the Polish island of Wolin. Just one of two in the region. It has deep-rooted Slavic and Viking traditions, owning been a property to a legendary metropolis of Vineta at the southern coastline of the Baltic Sea. The fantasy progressed all-around the custom of the medieval emporium called Jomsborg. Escalating up I was surrounded and fascinated by those people myths, and the relics of the days previous.

On a day off, where will we locate you?

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

What Photomagician’s couples say:

“We had the satisfaction of obtaining Radek as our marriage ceremony photographer in May perhaps 2021, this was postponed from 2020 due to Covid 19. For starters he was so being familiar with and adaptable during the rescheduling which built things so significantly less complicated. When the major day arrived he was amazing to be all around and was laidback although nevertheless making sure all the aspects were being accounted for. Ultimately, the pictures we been given were being much better than at any time imagined! From remarkable, inventive shots to lovely intimate details that truly brought back all the memories of the day, all the shots are outstanding. The time invested finding images as a pair just after the ceremony was also a spotlight of the working day, many thanks to Radek building it relaxed and exciting. We would both equally really advise him as he truly captured the working day and us properly!”

“A large large thank you to Radek for not only currently being an amazing photographer for our elopement marriage ceremony, but for being these types of a beautiful particular person in the course of the complete arranging process, and generating us and our witnesses experience so at ease and pleased all through the wedding ceremony working day by itself. So pleased in fact, that we didn’t want him to depart at the end of the day! From the second my now partner and I had our very first conference with him (on the web many thanks to Covid), we felt like we ended up interacting with a near close friend. We like his style of photography and desired accurately that for our wedding with no constraints or inhibitions. A moodier, much more carefree vibe. He was incredibly open to any tips that we experienced, but we ended up a lot more than happy for him to do his point as which is what drew us to him in the to start with position. His pleased, enthusiastic, and calming presence definitely manufactured our working day even more special and we have both been blown away by the slideshow he provided of our marriage ceremony with a amazing choice of illustrations or photos. His get the job done is everything that we envisioned and then some!”

“Using Radek as our marriage photographer was unquestionably a person of the greatest alternatives we manufactured and we could not be happier with the services he and Pavel (videographer) provided. The pictures they designed are inventive and timeless and we love sharing them with our buddies and spouse and children. We received on truly nicely with Radek from the original Zoom meeting (Covid wedding day) onwards and he genuinely designed us truly feel at simplicity on the working day. Radek has continued to offer a good assistance soon after the marriage and is generally quick to react.”

In like with Photomagician’s moody, cinematic design? We are also! To see additional of the magic he creates head on more than to Photomagician’s internet site.