Ovidiu Tiganus is my name, but you can quickly go with Ovi! Originally, I come from Romania, and together with my wife, Costina, I moved to London in September 2010.
On 10th of March 2012 our son, Darius was born! That date was the beginning point of my career. I know it might sound like a cliche because so many photographers had started like this, but one month before Darius came to the world I went to Argos and bought myself a Nikon d3000, so I can be prepared to capture every single moment of his life. I remember even that I lied to my wife that the camera cost only £200 but it actually cost me around £400. I was lucky though because in 2012 the mobile phone cameras were not as good as our days and maybe that's why I was encoureged to buy a DSLR.
Somehow, I guess, I had this passion in my blood, I grew up playing with my father's old film cameras. Unfortunately, he passed away to soon to teach me how to use them, and they were just toys for me. When I first put my hands on my d3000 something activated in me, I couldn't stop learning on how to get the perfect picture from the bloody thing.
And learning, and learning, and after I controlled the beast I found out that is not enough to make the perfect pictures, I needed to learn more, the mother of all programs, almighty Photoshop. While I was learning more lies followed (sorry honey), I bought more equipment, flashes, cameras, lenses, stands, video cameras, some of which were just lousy investments.
The wedding photography business came as a natural flow and as a reward of all the money I spend and the hundreds of hours in front of my computer watching tutorials.
For what I am now, for the photographer I became, I can only be grateful to my lovely wife. She is asleep now, and in the morning when she will read this text, she will say "yeah right." First, I am grateful for giving birth to our son! Without him, I would not be here today. I would've not bought that camera, and I would've been just a poor soul. My son is my blood. My wife is the engine that stands in front of me. So many times I told her that she is not supportive enough and so many times I knew deep down in me that is not true, but I was too stubborn to admit. Forgive me, love!
I am not even close on where I want to be, but I know, that someday one of you reading this will help me achieve a "Photographer of the year award." I have this ambition and is my promise that I will never stop learning until this day will come.
Bish bash bosh, I wrote my first ever blog post. I hope I didn't embarrass myself. Need to celebrate this somehow, wish I still have a beer in the fridge.
Thanks for reading, love you all!
