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English, Slovene
I was born on March 10, 1980, in a small town of Trbovlje, Slovenia. I went to the Ivan Cankar Elementary School, where I
attended a computer course, and later on to the High School of Economics in my hometown, being actively involved in an
after-school computer class. After finishing high school, I became a student at the Faculty of Computer and Information
Science in Ljubljana (I'm in my last year). Now I work for a company called Dewesoft where we develop various measurement
tools. Besides the computing environment Delphi, which I regularly use, I occasionally also put to practice Matlab and C;
in my spare time, I enjoy photography and karate.
Photography has been my true passion for the last several years now. Just like many other youngsters, I started off by clicking on a
compact camera. When I was 14, I got the Russian-made FED 3 (the Soviet version of Leica, manufactured at the FED factory and
similar to Leica M3) that already offered several extra options (exposure time etc.). How to make use of any of those possibilities was,
naturally, beyond my grasp at the time, so simply I took photos with the basic settings on. In 2000, however, my friend, a
photographer himself, showed me the Canon EOS 50 that evoked immediate passion in me. I bought it instantly and slowly began to
understand all of its technical details. It could be said that it was the moment I genuinely fell in love with photography. When the
market first offered some truly quality digital SLR cameras by Canon (350D) I tried them out with my friend Matevz K. and I thought:
this is it. The costs of photo developing are non-existent, so to speak, and the possibilities of experimenting are practically
endless. After a while, I moved on to the 400D, mostly because it had a bigger display and therefore better options of a photo
preview.
But there were two really disturbing things that I found extremely inconvenient with the entry level class of digital cameras:
difficult access to the exposure compensation button (a feature with the analogue EOS 50D already) and low-quality photographs. It
was always necessary to make use of some Photoshop in order to get satisfactory results. So I began my quest for an enhanced version
that would still be within my financial capacities. Hence: EOS 5D, which I currently use. If I said I had fallen in love with
photography earlier, I could now say: I fell in love with the camera.
During these past few years, I've been getting more and more drawn into the still-life photography, mostly due to my lack of time to
go on any nature expeditions, and portraits have never really been my cup of tea, anyway. I generally make commercial and artistic
photographs. When creating an art photo, it usually takes me a rather great deal of time to get an idea, and its realization is
a brand new chapter. The concept for a commercial photograph is usually born in a shop - where I try to find something really
captivating. The next step is the aim to present that item as good as I possibly can.