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About me, Viktoria & Husband, and what we do:
"Viktoria & Husband" sells Viktoria A. Mullin's pictures and services.
"Viktoria's Pictures" and "Viktoira A. Mullin" are trading names of "Viktoria & Hasbund", a company registered in Connecticut, USA. Our Lic.Nbr: 704971
All images are copyrighted by Viktoria & Husband. Reproduction without written consent is strictly prohibited. The sale of any print, card, or image does not constitute transfer of copyright ownership or any rights to reproduce, publish, or otherwise use the image for any reason without express written consent of Viktoria A. Mullin or the copyright owner.
All of the information about our services and prices you will find on the SERVICE pages.
For your convenience, we accept cash, check, or money order.
Some of matted/framed picture samples you may see on this page.
Well, now a bit about me.
My name is Viktoria Mullin and I’m Art Photographer,
Also I'm member of Connecticut Women Artists, Inc., which has been Supporting and Promoting Women in the Arts Since 1929.
I photograph and make pictures about anything that can bring joy, happiness, and mere pleasure into our hearts and homes.
The base of any of my creative art images is my own photography.
You can read , see , or reed just in advance.
I photograph all of the objects and subjects I may use in ahead as pure photos, or creative pictures using my knowledge, skills, experience and very good photography equipment.
Sometimes critics call me a photo manipulator. Of course I do and photo manipulations also for graphic design, custom unique projects and greeting cards,
or art photography wall pictures and posters. Although, I'm 200% Photographer at the very first.
I'm just able to make something else from my photos, because I'm artist.
Since my childhood, I've been drawing, painting, crafting and doing many interesting things in an artistic way.
I can't tell you certainly what came first to me in my early childhood: the ability to hold a table spoon in the right way or a pencil to draw.
I think both. I got my first film camera a bit latter then the first pencil, in 1984 when I was already 21.
So, my photography career has begun since then.
Graduated Kiev National University of Arts and Cultures in Ukraine, I improved my knowledge and skills already here in the USA,
in Middlesex Community College, Broadcast Communications.
Besides dreaming about a new career as a script writer and studing in Scriptwrining class, and Broadcast Perfomance,
I also took Photography, Media Aesthetics class, Graphic Design, DGA (Digital Graphic Arts), and Two Dimension classes.
I did both well: the writing and photography. Writing and creating pictures have been always my strong points and passion.
Soon, I understood that I need to make a right choice, what I really want and will be happy with for the rest of my life.
So, I decided, that mister Walt Disney can wait for me for a little while, or until my English becomes perfect.
Thus, a couple years later I established myself as an Art Photographer.
Today I have my own framing shop and a little home studio, so that I do the whole picture making process myself.
I'm fine art photographer, designer, editor, printer and framer of my own pictures.
I produce work aimed much more at the higher end of the market.
Why I do everything myself?
Because I love the whole process and know it so much that will never trust my images to anybody else.
Second, this way I can guarantee the high end quality of the work finished from the beginning to the end by me.
It makes your chosen picture unique and ultimately authentic.
Only you and I are involved in this process to get the best picture for you.
Besides, it shortens the way you get your photographs right on your walls, and gifts for your loved ones right into their hands and hearts.
In my mixed media pictures and design I use taken by ME photographs or parts of them and my hand drawing.
I draw with my WACOM Intuos 4 professional pen tablet.
It is still a pen and I still use my talent and hands to draw, but everything I draw goes and shows up straight on my monitor screen.
I put all things together working in various photo editing software. That's it? so simple?
No, not at all! :))
I think there is still something very important to tell about myself.
I'm a lucky woman: I work much and hard, but I do what I love, and I share my thorny paths of artistic life, career and business with my husband.
My husband Richard Mullin supports my success, creativity, business and inspiration. He is the technical and financial director of our little company.
He is the first audience I demonstrate my new artwork to; my sincere critic, reliable partner and loving friend.
Richard has been a very good amateur photographer for many years, so he understands my passion very well.
I think he’s had so much photography experience and knowledge, that now he can rely the direct photography routine process on me.
On the other hand, I can always Google my husband about anything I need to understand or esquire.
He is my technical guide in this fast pacing photography world. Also, his amazing ability to find the right things by the best prices helps us a lot!
Rich is always ready to improve and develop my tools. Many smart and useful things of my workshop have been made by his hands.
Sometimes I say that my husband is captured by Four "W": Work, Wife, Woodworking, and Welding.
Being a very skillful man, he spends a lot of time in his own workshop. He has the same passion to create as his wife.
Love is sharing, so we do share our life, interests and creativity. Wherever we are or go, whatever we do, we are together.
As those two sweet cherries on our logo, we are united by love and passion to create.
So, when the time had come to call our company, we called it as it is: Viktoria & Husband.
What i use:
I use Canon photo and printing equipment. After my first Canon 20D and then a 30D and 40D, I have my Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera,
which I'm absolutely happy with. I admire to work with this camera. It delivers excellent image quality and fitures.
With Mark II I use mostly the Canon EF 24-105mm f/4 L IS USM Lens.
For wildlife “photo hunting” I carry with me pretty heavy, but very good Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM Lens ,
one of the most popular serious wildlife and sports lenses Canon sells.
For macro photography, plants, insects and still life I use Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 L IS USM Macro Lens.
Also, I could not be any happier with the results of my Canon EF 70-200mm f/4.0 L IS USM lens.
There are MANY uses for this lens, but portrait photography is one of the best. The IS and the bokeh are to die for.
I print on 24-inch Canon imagePROGRAF iPF6300 I achieve superior quality, durable and long lasting prints with this excellent printer.
Here is a snapshot of the iPF6300 in one of my workshop rooms.
In my mating and framing workshop I use Morso Chopper Frame Molding Cutter,
Mitre-Mite VN 2+1 / Minigraf frame assembly machine
Fletcher 3100 mat/glass cutter,
Fletcher 2200 Professional Mat Cutting System,
and Fletcher 1100 Professional Oval and Circle Cutting System.
I’m very satisfied with Fletcher equipment, which gives professional looking neat result and makes my work process more pleasant, easy, and faster.
How I create my images:
“My wife makes pictures of anything comes into her hands and anywhere," likes to say my husband, and that is true.
Indeed, everything I see, meet, get or buy may have a photographic interest: from exotic water lilies in Longwood Gardens
to a simple beauty of wildlife flowers; giant plants and small colorful fruits; wildlife animals and domestic pets;
neighborhood kids and marvelous characters of Old Sturbridge Village.
I see pictures everywhere with my camera. It may be an old car I captured on a highway while driving home;
an osprey hunting for fish; an antique hand painted decanter or a whimsical frost pattern which covers last fall puddles.
I’m always with my camera and ready to travel.
Fascinated with the bird world, I do long trips to get photographs of wildlife ones
and delight photographing my backyard birds attracted to bird feeders at home.
I raise roses in my garden with a great passion, and the roses reveal in love with me in replay on my pictures.
The beautiful shapes and colors of fruits magnify me so much, that I’d prefer to photograph them rather than eat :)).
First what I do before creating a still life composition, I discern exam items to be set up looking for that subtle something
that makes them so different and alike at the same time. I hold them in my hands to sense their live warmth and feel stories they may tell me.
I don’t merely juxtapose my objects for a composition. I choose and select objects by repetition of shapes, lines, and textures.
Then I mix and match them by colors and moods. Yes, they do have their own mood, believe me.
Their shapes and colors may look bright and merry or dark and mysterious.
They can be looking soft and innocent, or harsh and insidious. The set up of a still life composition should be like a good orchestra:
many different musical instruments with different voices, but singing one beautiful melody.
I try arrange the objects by the way they look interacting, so the whole composition seems like a live-still story.
All my little characters and still life props are real toys, figurs, or statuettes, which I like to collect as much as to photograph.
The small world of theirs is usually set up with flowers and plants of my garden, arranged with my drawing,
and combined with some matching parts of my other photographs.
After a main photo session, I work in my digital dark room making these greeting funny stories.
My little characters mostly act on my studio work or kitchen table.
Using the kitchen table for my photo stories doesn't make my family members very happy with.
However, I look so happy and totally involve in the photographing process, that I’m always forgiven for the inconveniences, even if the dinner comes late :)
When I'm happy just with the original shots of my photographs, I may add just a little enhancing touch to the photos for a polish printing look.
But in no doubts, the most interesting for me is to create new pictures, new stories from my photographs, altering them by the way I see, touch and sense the world.
I touch the world with my pictures and the world gets closer to me.
My dear visitor, we're united by this world. Let’s try to see it, look at it...It is beautiful!
Life is beautiful. I know, I touch it, I sense...
Viktoria A. Mullin
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