Disclosure

Galina Toktalieva - Diary of Female Photographer©

Search Results For "photography"

Object of desire

July 13, 2008 - 1:01 pm - Posted by Galina

About 120,000 people in colourful clothes took part in Vienna’s annual Rainbow Parade on Saturday to call for equal rights for gays, lesbians and transvestites. I must add that to be transvestite does not necessarily mean to be homosexual. Some transvestites are fascinated with women’s clothes only, and want to feel themselves, at least temporarily, [...]

Posted in Portfolio, Vienna | 1 Comment »

Secret weapon

June 14, 2008 - 7:52 pm - Posted by Galina

Saturday. Woman in Muslim headscarf reading book in Thalia bookshop
The Nikon 50mm f/1.4 considered to be a secret weapon for low-light photography, justified my expectations. It is also ultra light, almost weightless, and sharp.

Posted in Portfolio, Society, Vienna | 1 Comment »

Miracles

June 2, 2008 - 11:00 am - Posted by Galina

I had not posted for my blog for a long time. It was emotional zigzag.
Zigzags appear in my life as result of failures or psychological traumas, when shift of perception makes me look at my life from another perspective.
Contemplating my professional future, I see my aspirations are mostly inapplicable in Austria. My prospects would be [...]

Posted in About, Gesellschaft | 1 Comment »

Photo project

May 7, 2008 - 7:36 pm - Posted by Galina

Once I met an old artist in the street, he was in his usual shabby jacket with fringes at the bottom, dragging heavy suitcase with sketches and looking thoughtful. When I asked him, what was going on, he replied: “It is always the same - too much of work and too little or nothing of [...]

Posted in Portfolio | No Comments »

Open email to chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer

April 4, 2008 - 7:27 am - Posted by Galina

Dear Mr. Gusenbauer!
Excuse me for breaking rules and sending you photo with a piece of nudity, but I do not see other way to attract your attention to the point.
I am freelance photographer and journalist, and once you posed for me and other photographers during election campaign in Graz in autumn of 2006. Unfortunately, [...]

Posted in Gesellschaft, journalism | 4 Comments »

die Masse der Oesterreichischen Gesellschaft

March 27, 2008 - 11:15 pm - Posted by Galina

The Flash Player and a browser with Javascript support are needed..

var so17412 = new SWFObject(”http://www.toktali.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/imagerotator.swf”, “ngg_slideshow17″, “390″, “280″, “7″, “#000000″);
so17412.addParam(”wmode”, “opaque”);
so17412.addVariable(”file”, “http://www.toktali.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/nextgen-gallery/nggextractXML.php?gid=17″);
so17412.addVariable(”shuffle”, “false”);
so17412.addVariable(”shownavigation”, “false”);
so17412.addVariable(”showicons”, “false”);
so17412.addVariable(”linkfromdisplay”, “true”);
so17412.addVariable(”logo”, “”);
so17412.addVariable(”overstretch”, “none”);
so17412.addVariable(”backcolor”, “0×000000″);
so17412.addVariable(”frontcolor”, “0xFFFFFF”);
so17412.addVariable(”lightcolor”, “0xCC0000″);
so17412.addVariable(”rotatetime”, “3″);
so17412.addVariable(”transition”, “random”);
so17412.addVariable(”width”, “390″);
so17412.addVariable(”height”, “280″);
so17412.write(”ngg_slideshow17″);

(Photo: unrecognized suicide attempt at U3 underground line at 12.15, man with long blond hair jumped down at railways, but changed [...]

Posted in Gesellschaft | No Comments »

Gallery

March 24, 2008 - 4:39 pm - Posted by Galina

Gallery of street photos, concerned and political photography, mixed with body impressions

Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Street photography

March 3, 2008 - 11:08 pm - Posted by Galina

Why the bird sings? Maybe because of joy.
Street photography which depicts recognizable faces can survive only on pages of private blogs
Blogs which bring to author nothing except two-three duty comments and tons of spam
To go on like that photographer must be bird
Who sings because of pure joy and does not bother herself
about value and purpose [...]

Posted in Media | No Comments »

What young photographer must know

February 13, 2008 - 4:45 pm - Posted by Galina

Normally people don’t like their own photos even of high quality. Portrait photography is the special art of flattery. Everybody has own vision of himself that can be broken by cruel frankness of digital camera vision. Image we perceive with our eyes is processed by multiple filters of our brain. People don’t like their own [...]

Posted in Gesellschaft | No Comments »

Nikon

January 8, 2008 - 2:14 pm - Posted by Galina

Nikkor AF 70-210mm
This old lens, almost single one i constantly worked with, is very nice. But time comes to start with indoors journalism photography, and my camera with this very lens is mostly dead in dim light. Solution?
Maybe solution is Nikkor AF-D 80-200mm 2.8 D lens which costs about 800 Euros.
I realized I can [...]

Posted in Portfolio | No Comments »

Sale

November 25, 2007 - 7:57 pm - Posted by Galina

If you start doing anything seriously, soon you will realize that problems of any contemporary occupation arise mostly at promotion level.
If you cannot market yourself, you can do nothing. In such arts, as cinematography and photography, the more gifted you are the less chances you have to maneuver smoothly
through troublesome process of advertising.
Artistic talent is [...]

Posted in Gesellschaft, Men | No Comments »

Memento mori

October 1, 2007 - 10:54 am - Posted by Galina

I have never met photographer who would not consider himself to be genial.
Most of them including those who photograph only for home archives - regard them to be unsurpassed specialists in photography and also consider others species with cameras to be ridiculous. Whenever I meet with next hobby photographer he hurries to give me advice [...]

Posted in Gesellschaft | No Comments »