Hi, I’m Marysia Eriksson
and I’m a fashion photographer.
I also shoot beauty.
and I work in
lifestyle, fashion photography.
Today we shot
outfits from two designers.
We got extremely beautiful outfits and dresses
from Maciek Zień
and jewelry from Ela Żubrowska.
When looking for a model
and picking a model for a session
I’m not driven by her looks.
What’s important to me
is if this person creates a story,
gives it all on the photos.
How well she feels while being photographed.
During today’s work, I could allow myself such freedom,
because I had a camera that deal perfectly
with the light, which we had today.
From today’s morning,
we’ve been working mostly with natural light.
I could allow myself,
to try out continuous shooting – 20fps.
Allow the model
to have more freedom in her movement.
The autofocus works beautifully in the R5.
And there really is eye tracking,
face tracking, which also works really well
in continuous shooting.
I often find myself working in low light,
which forces me
to also use long exposures - I take photos with long exposures.
And EOS R5 is the first Canon’s camera,
which has 5-axis internal image stabilization.
And it gives beautiful results,
there’s no motion blur, the image is extremely sharp.
It’s a very cool feature,
that I can set AF point on the screen even in the corners
and the sharpness is still there,
it’s still on point.
At the end of the day, the images are sharp,
in spite of a very dynamic situation on the set.
My education is very traditional,
I graduated from photography class at Film School in Łódź.
And for the longest time, I’d tried to walk away from it,
but at some point,
I decided that it’s so deep within me,
that in reality what I’d been looking for in photography all this time,
was something authentic,
some moment that’s close to real life.
It surely had a profound impact,
on photography I do today.
Another thing, which deeply influenced me,
was my move to the US,
where I’d lived for almost three years,
and studied as well.
There I somewhat got a feel for
commercial photography
but in a good sense.
I realized that technical side doesn’t exclude
a photo being artistic.
A place means a great deal to me.
A place can be a great inspiration,
but to me, it doesn’t exist without a person.
I need to have a person in the context of a place.
Oftentimes young photographers ask me,
they look for inspiration to start,
for their own passion in photography.
And what I could tell them,
is that they find some
authentic particle,
which fascinates them.
And then they find their place in photography.
To me, gear is crucial.
In fact, gear is sort of a photographer’s language.
Often when I prepare a session,
knowing how I want to tell the story,
I creatively and intentionally
pick and prepare the gear for a shoot.
Having the opportunity to work with EOS R5,
I also had a chance to work with
a new series of lenses
– and I fell in love.
First
RF 70-200mm lens,
which is much smaller than a EF long zoom
I’d used before.
It’s smaller, lighter,
but still feels like a professional tool.
The second one, which to me is a novelty,
and which also stole my heart
is RF 24-70mm.
A very beautiful lens for photographing people.
Usually, a 50mm is a staple
in my work,
but I’ve got a feeling it can change now.
I also had an opportunity to use
an adapter for my older lenses.
And I feel like they work nicely,
there are no issues,
the photos look great.
Two card slots allow me,
to create a simultaneous backup
during a shoot.
It gives me comfort
I don’t have to worry that something may delete itself.
I have an instant copy of the material I create.
A flip-out screen worked great
during today’s photoshoot.
Especially when, e.g. a model lied on the floor
and I didn’t have to use a ladder
to photograph her.
All I had to do was take the camera out,
flip the screen and I had full control over the picture.
In beauty and portrait photography
it’s crucial for a photo to be sharp,
for an eye to be sharp.
And in such photography
Eye-AF works great.
This feature allows me
to move the model around
and have the autofocus to follow her from corner to corner of a frame.