Elena Shumilova is a talented photographer. She is a skilled worker who quickly became famous. Her works are known around the world.
How did it all start?
Love for art was founded in Elena since childhood, when she studied at an art school. After receiving the basic education, it was architectural. In St. Petersburg, Elena studied at the Academy. Repin, however, did not finish it.
Photography always aroused her interest. But the first works appeared only after the birth of children. For their sake, I had to give up the career of an architect. And over time, the family moved to the Tver region, where Elena Shumilova and took her first pictures. The photographer wanted to capture childhood with his emotions and feelings, joys, disappointments and discoveries.
Through thorns to glory
The first works, according to her admission, were not the most successful: somewhere unnaturalness was visible when she asked the children to pose, somewhere she did not have time to catch the right shot if the shooting was not staged. Patience and perseverance did their job. Today Elena Shumilova is known and recognized by millions of people. She collaborates with foreign companies and publications.
The main theme of the photographer’s work is children and nature. Pictures were taken on their own farm, where there is no shortage of animals, so there was no need to specifically look for models. The frames depicting a little boy and a big alabai - a dog, which, according to the plan of the owners, were supposed to guard the farm, but grew up very good-natured and became one of the models, look very moving.
Professional Tricks
Elena Shumilova creates very lively pictures that convey mood. For this, she has several means:
- Making a story photo, she does not ask the children to pose, but gives a general plan: what, how and why to do. Without actively interfering in the process, without interfering with intrusive guidance, but simply knowing the sequence of events, she catches the right moments.
- For a photo shoot in nature, she finds a place in advance and determines where the shooting will take place, taking into account lighting and composition.
- When working in the house, Elena Shumilova loves to use the backlight coming from the window. Depending on the weather and time of day, there may be a curtain on the window, during the passage of which the light is scattered.
- Elena does not use flash, tripods and reflectors. She prefers to work with natural light: diffused, direct rays and backlight.
As happens with many talented people, there were unknown critics who sit on the Internet and discuss where there are technical inaccuracies or “too many Photoshop”. Elena does not hide that she is processing the frames. Moreover, this process takes from one to four hours per photo, depending on the quality of the original image. The result is masterpieces that have won the sympathy of millions of people around the world.
Thanks to her natural inclinations, patience, perseverance and self-education in the field of photography, Elena Shumilova, a photographer whose biography did not differ in anything special, became a world famous person whose work brings people joy.