Who See feat. Rhino - Reggaeton Montenegro video is out!

Montenegring hip-hop group aired their video for Reggaeton Montenegro tonight! Good beat, awesome lyrics and a full-on video filmed in Havana by Zonjo (Zoran Markovic). Enjoy it!

Sinestezija Festival 2012.

NGO "Sinestezija" in association with Goethe Institute Belgrade and Dis-patch productions are calling out everyone interested in creation of multimedia projects! You are invited to participate in creation and supervision of the projects. There are several conditions for the applicants so please read carefully and apply if you think you are eligible.

Application process page



Festival Sinestezija advert from last year on Vimeo.

I'm very excited about this year's Sinestezija and I hope it will turn out to be one of the leading multimedia festivals in Europe. It's got everything needed: great locations, great people, great minds. Good luck to all applying above!

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DIY: 5 steps to macro photography with any lens

Did you ever want to shoot macro photography? Never had the money for a 100mm f2.8 MACRO lens? If you have an ordinary - which means any kind of lens laying around - now it's time to use it! The technique I'm about to show you isn't rocket science. Plain and simple reverse lens technique. What's that? Easy - switch the ends of your lens. How can you do that? Follow my 5 STEP tutorial on Reverse lens for low budget photographers.

STEP1:

What you need? dSLR camera, lens, some sort of a tape and a cutting tool.

STEP2:

Remove the lens from your camera. This is most basic principle of how this technique works.

STEP3:
Tape the lens to the camera body with the front glass tight. Don't allow any light to come in since it will ruin your photos. Please be aware not to use any kind of glue or moisture - you have to be able to set this apart at any time.

STEP 4: 
Make sure you've done all this right: You reversed the lens by switching the front end with the back end; you used regular tape to seal the lens and you did it with caution. It must be tight enough to hold the lens but again to seal so no light comes through. I used an ND 0.3 filter on top just in case - I don't want to scratch my lens. Always hold the lens even when taped. I used Canon 17-40mm f4 lens which is rather expensive. Be quick - prepare everything and then follow the procedure - Since your camera body and lens are not attached - dust and other particles can damage your sensors or bring filth to your lens. Never forget to hold it even if you are shooting from a mount:

STEP 5: 
SHOOT. Shoot indoors - remember that your lens is open to any filth. Never do this outside - especially on a windy/rainy weather conditions. Moister, filth and even water will find it's way inside. This might ruin your lens. If you have an old lens which you never use again - or for example I have an old kit lens 18-55mm on which my auto focus doesn't work - the lens I can't think of using again.

With these 5 easy steps I've made this yesterday.

The settings I used were:

Canon 7d body
Canon 50mm f1.4 lens - REVERSED
Shutter speed: 1/125
ISO: 1600
Focal length: 50mm
Focus +infinity

So there you go: a very easy to follow tutorial on how to make macro photographs with any lens! This is just another great way to have some fun when you're home with your camera!
Feel free to contact me regarding the technique and share your photos online. I will gladly share them on my blog as well. Photographs of the process (making of) are made by Bada

Get Inspired: Tim Minchin's Storm - The animated movie

Amazing animation and narrative. Ten minutes you won't regret watching! Very entertaining and informative. I think some of you will find so much in the movie.

In the confines of a London dinner party, comedian Tim Minchin argues with a hippy named Storm. While Storm herself may not be converted, audiences from London to LA have been won over by Tim's wordplay and the timely message of the film in a society where science and reason are portrayed as the enemy of belief.

Get inspired!

Trending: Black and white for Design entities in Montenegro

It's snowing again, and it was the perfect time for laying low tonight with a cup of hot chocolate. However, the soothing feeling stopped when I spilled my drink all over the table. Why? Simple - I LOVE WHEN DAA Montenegro sets the trends! In 2008. our agency switched from orange-blue color scheme to black and white one. It was a big step, and for the time being it was almost blasphemous. We were even called a burial service company (the black color of the brand somehow inspired our friends and foes). Well, that was 2008. and we still have a copy of our mini website version - 2008. MINI WEBSITE VERSION. This was the first big step in redesigning our agency. The next step when we went even further was almost a year later. White typography on a black shield. The transition was almost over. Yet again we left it to take a few breaths like a wine, and it grew like child of our own. I've been working on our DAA Montenegro brand blog post for a while now and it will be out soon. More info about our design process, concepts and ideas concerning the home design agency will be available.

BUT, for now I'd like to address the next question. We are happy that we aren't the only design entity in Montenegro. We support every designer, big and small, famous or anonymous in their cause. We have no competition, but only business partners. So how did our black and white trend? Like the ripples in the water after you throw a rock.

Our friends from bild-studio and gondor have transitioned to a black and white scheme. Both studios were known for their vibrant colors and yet somehow they managed to take a step back or forward and strip all the color away. For example, the previous website from the Bild studio fellas was greenish with a tint of great illustrations by Nikola Kalezic.

Now if you check back with their website, you see the kind of minimalist approach to design. As we have once made that step in DAA, so have our friends at Bild. I must say I liked their green more, but still they have mine and our full support.

The second studio I've found is the Gondor. They were more familiar with their sandy-like yellow, mostly from their adverts in downtown Podgorica. They had their issues with the design itself, some colors were kind of out of place on the adverts (red typography with a white glow behind), but it seems they are too making a leap of faith.

Now, if we switch back to their website, we can see the accented black and white scheme. Never the less, the implemented template is a big step ahead in their design and development sector. I'm sure they will grow even further.
In Montenegro we also have a great design studio Fleka. Our good friends from Fleka are creating amazing design concepts and even better apps for our media devices. We sure hope to work with them sometime in the future.
For now, I'm really satisfied that DAA's style, concepts, design and developments are approved not just by our dearest friends, the clients, but also by the community and now even the beloved colleagues designers. I didn't think that our own branding strategies would set such an inspiring blast which would eventually, couple of years later, set off this trend! #amazing

Shooting in the snow at night

Last night we got caught up in the snow here in Podgorica and I thought it was the perfect excuse to get wet and dirty with my Canon 7d. . . I hooked up my 50mm f1.4 lens with a Circular Polarizer to seal it up a bit in the front.

The first challenge was how to set up the camera for shooting in very low light conditions with snow all around. My visions were simple - I wanted to use a fairly slow shutter speed (1/60s) to catch the motion of the particles in the air, while freezing the minimal actions of my subjects. I used 50mm primarily because of the wide aperture (most of the shots were done from f1.4 to f2.8). These settings would suffice if I was to shoot in dusk or dawn, but this late with very little light I had to pump up the ISO to 1000+. This caused some grain action in the photographs but the 7d and Adobe Lightroom both have noise reduction systems. In this conditions - when I don't have an external light source I can control, I make peace with myself that the photos will be used for web only. In conclusion the settings were:

Canon 7d + Canon 50mm f1.4

Manual mode: 

Shutter speed around 1/60s and up to 1/100s; 

Apperture from f1.4 to f2.8; 

ISO 1000-1600.

Take a look!

The slower shutter speed makes the snow look like it's almost raining

While we were taking a break and warming up at Costa's.

Use lights wherever available - The light on their faces is from an advert above them

Props like umbrellas are always welcome!

I love action shots

Try to think in different angles and what they do for the shot

Remember to keep shooting between takes.