Rastislav Marguš
Rastislav Marguš born in former Czechoslovakia is a leading a career
of a full time professional airline pilot of a Boeing 787 commercial jet
aircraft for a major national airline. He undertook his first flying lessons
as a 15 year old teenager. Although he is pilot of modern jets he is living
a life of professional photographer too. Passion for photography started
well back at the college at the beginning of his pilot studies by the start
of the new millennium. “Career: Pilot...Profession: Photographer”
Since 2004 he is a member of the International Federation of Journalist
(IFJ) which was a consequence of prolonged cooperation with various
life-style and aviation magazines and during the year 2010 he became
a member of the Federation of European Professional Photographers
(FEP) after his work was reviewed by the jury of professionals in the
industry. In 2016 he received the FEP-EP qualification as an acknowl-
edgment of his professional standard and in 2017 he confirmed his
standard and achieved the FEP-QEP (Qualified European Photographer)
qualification. Also in 2017 he successfully attended as a finalist in the
FEP Year Awards competition in the Reportage and Wildlife category
on 4th and 6th place respectively. And if it wasn’t enough during 2017
certificate from EPSON was received certifying achieved technical
perfection in printing and so enrolled in EPSON’s program for Limited
Edition prints. Based in the Canon camp shooting mainly fixed, special
and fast lenses all the way from 8mm to 800mm. He likes to think of pho-
tography as of a whole process beginning from pre-production taking it
thru the image creation to the retouching, printing, framing and beyond.
The golden period and the biggest impact to his photography studies
was by the time when he was working as a assistant to the greatest
master of photography in Central Europe, Martin Vrabko. This was the
time he got to try the medium format Hasselblad camera and got to
taste the old masters technique which he likes to include in his portrait,
architecture and even street art images.
Aviation is the dominating genre in his portfolio, but since the world is
not only about heavy iron flying machines, he started to capture the
beauty of the woman, architecture and the beauty of our earth as seen
by the Gods as well.
His steps took him to the largest airshows and airports in the world to
walk under the wings of the greatest icons of aviation, they took him to
various studios, fashion shows and miss competitions to capture the
most beautiful women’s in the world and at last but not least they took
him high enough to soar above the most beautiful parts of our planet
Earth.
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