The 500px Prime Creator program acknowledges photographers who excel in Licensing and Business Pictures. Our Prime Creators will function ambassadors of the 500px Licensing Assortment, showcasing their distinctive expertise and representing one of the best of one of the best.
Meet our latest 500px Prime Creator and study extra about how Licensing is making a extra inclusive world by visible storytelling.
Iza Lyson is a Polish photographer specializing in canine images and life-style content material. Having been a 500px Contributor for over eight years, her Portfolio has captured the eye of 500px for its gorgeous and real content material that encapsulates numerous well timed themes and ideas. Iza’s strategy to Licensing is persistently enjoyable and private—traits which can be typically missed when taking pictures business content material. By incorporating her passions and every day life into her shoots, Iza has efficiently captured on a regular basis micro-moments that customers can relate to.
Q: Howdy! Are you able to inform us a bit about your self?
A: Hello, My title is Iza. I’m 26 years previous and have been a photographer for the previous 14 years. I don’t actually keep in mind a time in my life with out images. From the very starting of my images profession, I started photographing canines—my adventures began with my golden retriever, Luna, that I acquired once I was 12. A whole bunch of hundreds of images later I discovered myself right here, a 500px Ambassador for the previous six years. All through my profession my photos have obtained awards in top-class contests. Moreover, I used to be honored as a visitor choose for Canine Pictures Awards—largest canine images contest. Aside from that, I’m a proud proprietor of two border collies—Opi and Tra—with whom I regularly journey by Europe.
Q: We’re thrilled to have you ever as a 500px Prime Creator! Your business Portfolio illustrates the kind of content material we advocate for in our 500px Licensing assortment. Are you able to inform us about your expertise in Licensing and the way it started?
A: I keep in mind once I offered my first image—I used to be in highschool at the moment, so the amount of cash that I earned appeared so large, I believed that I might by no means must work one other day in my life. What was much more stunning, was that I simply uploaded this image to my 500px Portfolio and ticked one checkmark—add to Licensing. In fact, in a while, the robust actuality got here that I truly wanted to promote a couple of extra images to maintain myself in my grownup life. Since then, I’ve been including to my Licensing Portfolio on 500px and increase my gallery of pictures regularly.
Just lately, I began capturing life-style content material strictly to be offered as “inventory” images. I’m presently very pleased with my 500px Licensing assortment, which I need to admit sells fairly properly.
Q: You’re touring to the Netherlands quickly! What are you most enthusiastic about, and do you may have any photoshoots deliberate?
A: Aside from the photoshoot I’ve deliberate of my very own canines within the tulip fields of Netherlands, I can not wait to fulfill up with my pal Auderey Bellot. Auderey can be a canine photographer! Pictures just isn’t solely about taking photos, however it’s concerning the group and new friendships. I take pleasure in speaking and exchanging experiences with different photographers.
Moreover, I might additionally wish to recreate a few of the photographs I took final yr in a a lot smaller tulip discipline in Poland. The shoot I want to recreate was of my youthful canine Tra, who was 4 months previous on the time. I might like to see the distinction between the 2 images as a illustration of how she grew.
Q: Your Licensing portfolio is a good instance for different Contributors to study from. Are you able to share with us your strategy of conceptualizing and executing your life-style shoots?
A: Most of my life-style images had been taken due to the 500px Licensing Quests. The primary transient I participated in was primarily based on the subject of “sustainability”. This was firstly of the pandemic. That was the primary time I requested my buddies to pose for images; this was a totally completely different style of images than I used to be used to. The subsequent Quest I participated in was “dwelling candy dwelling” in the course of the pandemic. I taught myself the way to prepare dinner (so I might {photograph} this course of). The outcomes I achieved led me to maintain collaborating in 500px Quests. The Quest “50 over 50” allowed me to lastly take the time to get some photos of my dad and grandmother. Now I’m an enormous fan of the Month-to-month Shot Listing Quests! Aside from that, I similar to having my digicam close to me to {photograph} my canines after they play or sleep. Identical with my canine images—other than lovely portraits I attempt to catch the moments the place the canines are simply being canines and are having fun with themselves.
Q: With reference to your canine images, are you able to inform us the way you recruit your fashions?
A: I all the time begin with asking myself, “what do I need to {photograph}?” Then, whether or not I can execute this plan with the cooperation of my canines, or my pal’s canines. If not, I announce on Instagram or Fb that I’m in search of particular fashions, and very often, I handle to seek out them. Typically I simply discover an account of a canine on Instagram, and it evokes me to visualise a photoshoot in some particular location after which I write to the house owners with a proposal for cooperation. And different instances the shoppers contact me, and collectively we select one of the best circumstances for his or her canine.
Q: We’re all the time reminding Licensing Contributors which you can often discover nice fashions fairly near dwelling, whether or not turning the lens on pets, household, buddies, and even your self. Do you may have any suggestions or methods for taking pictures self-portraits?
A: In fact—I take lots of of images utilizing myself because the mannequin! Presently probably the most handy answer for me is to place my digicam on a tripod, books, or perhaps a stack of garments, after which launch the distant app on my cellphone. For those who don’t have the flexibility to hook up with your digicam by way of Bluetooth or WIFI, you should use a distant management or set the digicam to take photos each two seconds. In conditions the place I’m taking self-portraits with my canines, I typically want the assistance of one other one that can press the shutter button and {photograph} a sequence of predetermined photographs I’ve deliberate out. That’s how most of my portraits within the mountains had been made.
Q: What are your go-to digicam and lens decisions? How does taking pictures canine images versus life-style content material affect your setup?
A: Presently, I take advantage of Nikon Z9, which I need to admit is sort of heavy, however the high quality of images is simply astonishing. Due to a excessive variety of FPS, I can seize the best second of even probably the most dynamic scenes. In relation to the lens, in canine images I primarily use the 135mm f/1.8 for each portraits and dynamic photos. However, once I create life-style content material, I desire a shorter focal size—for instance 35 mm. This permits me to be nearer to the mannequin, and present extra of the environment.
Q: Business images and Licensing are all the time altering and evolving to replicate the considerations, wants, and values of the instances. What’s a technique you want to see the trade change sooner or later?
A: I hope that it’s going to change in such a method that my photos would be the ones promoting one of the best! In fact, I’m joking, however just a bit. In my images I present the on a regular basis pleasures which can be typically onerous to admire. In fact, I additionally like to seize the pure happiness in canines that I feel we will all study from!
Q: For those who had an infinite funds to execute any shoot you dream of, what would it not be?
A: I might like to do a photoshoot of my canines in Iceland! Sadly, the factor stopping me just isn’t solely the funds, but in addition the truth that you may solely deliver your personal canine to Iceland after a one-month quarantine there. That’s the reason I in all probability gained’t be capable of fulfill this dream, however possibly I will compromise and {photograph} another person’s canines
Q: What’s the strangest factor you’ve ever needed to do to get the right shot?
A: There have been instances once I needed to lay on the bottom in crowded metropolis streets or have somebody piggyback me, all to seize one of the best perspective. I additionally drove 1,500 kilometers a technique simply to {photograph} a phenomenal ice collapse Switzerland. Because it occurs, whereas I used to be coming back from the ice cave, I finished at a waterfall the place I took my most well-known photograph featured within the Sony World Pictures Awards.
Q: Do you may have any distinctive or quirky private rituals or routines that you just observe earlier than a photoshoot?
A: Often, my rituals are arriving slightly early to scout one of the best location and get accustomed to the house and greatest lighting. Due to a few years of expertise, it solely takes me a second, after which I can transfer on to taking pictures. However, if I {photograph} my very own canines, I all the time give them as a lot time as they should familiarize themselves with the place and to settle down.
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