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#582 - Auszeichnung für Event Fotografie - Fotograf Dennis Adamczak

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He explains how he shot the award-winning photo of two women performing acrobatics in a spinning metal ring five meters high.

1. The Fotografen und Filmemacher Podcast features host Edmond Rätsel in a studio interview with Dennis Adamczak, a 26-year-old event technician and event photographer. 2. Dennis Adamczak is based in the Elventwild area and works primarily as a technical consultant in event technology, with photography as a growing parallel business he intends to expand. 3. The episode traces Adamczak's journey from childhood hobbyist to professional event photographer, focusing on how his event-technology background gave him an unusual advantage in the photography market. 4. His first camera was a Panasonic DMC-TZ25 with a Leica lens, given to him by his parents at around age ten, which he still owns and had loaded with a memory card on the day of the interview. 5. After years of shooting on smartphones, he acquired a used Sony Alpha 6300 from a colleague around 2020-2021 and began an intensive self-directed study of photography, regularly driving to photo locations after work. 6. His first paid photography job was a 300-euro booking for a birthday slash company anniversary party for a friend of his parents, which had no connection to his event-technology work. 7. He transitioned to combining both skills when he suggested to an existing event-technology client that he could photograph exhibition stands they had built, turning downtime at the job into a photography opportunity. 8. His apprenticeship as a specialist in event technology covered video technology, light technology, sound, rigging, statics, and electrical engineering, giving him a grounding in subtractive and additive colour mixing that he finds directly applicable to photography lighting. 9. Working on the Andrea Berg tour as a lighting technician, Adamczak used his freedom to move around the arena to practise event photography and offered the resulting images to the production for free because he considered it a learning exercise. 10. He won Photographer of the Month for a burst-shot image from the Feuerwerk der Turnkunst acrobatics tour in Göttingen, showing two women performing in a large spinning metal ring five metres above the stage. 11. To capture that shot he stood in the last row of the arena to match the height of the ring, used a 70-200mm lens at maximum zoom, fired at 20 frames per second using the Sony A9, and selected the frame with perfect bilateral symmetry in post-production. 12. His current equipment consists of a Sony A9 body acquired at approximately half its new-value price with only 2,000 actuations, paired with a Sigma 24-70mm f/2 and a Sigma 35mm f/1.4 as his two main lenses. 13. Adamczak describes the weekend-heavy nature of event work — being away all week and returning Monday, then taking Tuesday as a rest day before doing administrative work — as an unavoidable trade-off in the industry. 14. He credits his event-technology background with giving him an instinct for avoiding face shadows on stage, directly applicable to portrait and event photography lighting. 15. His Schlager-music television work includes productions for Florian Silbereisen's shows, with artists including Andrea Berg, Roland Kaiser, Helene Fischer, and Malte Kelly. 16. On AI in photography, Adamczak notes that AI noise reduction has made low-light event photography substantially more forgiving than it was five to ten years ago, when underexposed or noisy frames were unrecoverable. 17. He uses Lightroom for primary editing — adjusting lights, brightness, and colours — reserving Photoshop for compositing and object removal, with AI tools handling spot removal effectively. 18. The conversation has a relaxed, collegial tone, conducted in German in Rätsel's studio; Adamczak physically brought his first camera to the interview and received a Photographer of the Month trophy during the recording. 19. The episode suits German-speaking photographers and videographers interested in event photography, particularly those considering a dual career in event production and photography. 20. Those seeking in-depth post-processing tutorials or studio photography advice will find limited coverage of those topics.

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