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In case you are a photographer, searching for ways to improve your quality of work, then you must checkout Delicious Presets.

Delicious Presets is a website owned by Krzysztof Zietarski where he helps both professional and amateur photographers in creating awesome colors for their photographs, in the fastest and the easiest way possible.

Krzysztof is a Poland-based wedding and potrait photographer who fell in love with photography when he was just a kid. His photographs are amazing and his colors are awesome.

Since Adobe Lightroom is the most popularly used photo-editing software these days therefore, in order to help photographers Krzysztof started creating presets for Lightroom 3 and Lightroom 4.

According to his website, "When I went professional in 2009, I started with Adobe Lightroom as it is great and fast tool for professional photographers because of fast achievable high quality pictures and also very easy to use by beginning photographers."

If you like great colors and tones just like we do, these are the best professional lightroom presets for you.

Through Delicious Presets, Krzysztof shares his post-processing resources with others. Not only can you buy these lightroom presets for yourself from his website but you can also go through his website for some quick photography inspiration.

To know more about Krzysztof and his website, read on our exclusive interview with him.

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1. Hi Krzysztof, please introduce yourself to our readers.

Hello all E-junkie users and followers! My name is Krzysztof Zietarski, I live in Gdansk, Poland with my growing family. Since 2009, I professionally captured people's lives through photography, although I started as a hobbyist in 1996 (and I was born in 1988). In the November 2011, I launched Delicious Presets.

2. What is Delicious Presets? What inspired you to take photography as a profession? Have you studied photography or are you self-taught?

Before I introduce Delicious Presets, let me show you my way to photography and arts/craft. My father was also a hobbyist photographer since his childhood and he taught me to focus on people, relationships and capturing events besides all the technical skills required to capture images on film. Through the young years I captured the life in my family, school, with my friends, scout camps and pilgrimages, so basically it became my second nature.

I was always much into all the IT stuff (started my Electronics & Telecommunications studies in 2007, left for more focus on photography in 2010) and also into all creative things and arts, especially music. I started more serious creative work with computer game level design for Half-Life mods. As well I was building my music creativity: I played classic guitar, electric guitar, learned to play contrabass in State School of Music, played piano/keyboards and put it all into my own compositions and recordings on PC.

The idea to take photography as a profession came up as the most interesting way to contain all my skills, meet my thirst for creation, delivering beauty and goodness in useful way into other people lives and create living for my newly founded family in 2009 (we have three children at the moment).

Being impressed by digital photography post-processing possibilities I created also some awfully processed photos and quickly discovered the need to not over-process each photography if I want it to last for years. Grown in a mid 90's and early 2000's color-film era I didn't fall in love with the "default" digital camera image colors, so I always looked for a possibility to push the colors somewhere else, closer to natural look when I shot on real film.

In search for great colors I developed my own look and many photographers started to ask me about the post-processing techniques I use. Then the Delicious Presets idea came up.

Delicious Presets is a eCommerce website where I help professional and advanced amateur photographers in creating great colors as fast and easy as it is possible. Adobe Lightroom is the the most popular photo editing software these days, so I started with creating presets for Lightroom 3, and then Lightroom 4 (fully supporting Lightroom 5).


3. What is your favorite post-processing step?

Apart from getting rid of "digital colors" I like to burn & dodge here and there. I like the idea to subtly enhance important parts of picture to better lead the eye of a viewer. It's possible not only with post-processing steps but also straight out of camera, when you light up your frame with off-camera flash, so I also use my flashes a lot.

4. Being a photographer yourself, what is your favourite genre of photography? Which is your favourite camera and lens combination?

Ma favorite task is to capture real-life moments and joy either on weddings and family events, etc. I like to appreciate the beauty of entire moments with all the relationships happening within specific surroundings. I use wide angles a lot, going intimate sometimes. My first lens to use is 35mm, adding 24mm and 50mm if I want to go wider or closer. 50mm is not so close as many photographers would consider, but that's my preference to rather take the step closer and get in the middle of events instead of being a distant spectator. It allows me to get into closer relationships with people. All these on Nikon D700 - great workhorse camera, I wish it could be lighter and fit into the pocket, but usable compact full-frame cameras are not so far away :)



5. Let us have a quick-fire round:
Tea or Coffee?
Ice coffee based on mild espresso with bio rice milk sweetened with half tablespoon of honey. 
5 most important things on your desk?Display, backup hard drives, speakers with great music, my family photos, healthy snacks (fruits and nuts). 
Favorite musician?
Could be a little set? (I love music!) Joe Satriani, Dream Theater, Mike Oldfield, Spock's Beard, Neal Morse, TGD (Polish Gospel) 
Favorite photograph?My wife's portrait in my wallet.
6. If you could peek inside the studio/toolbox of any designer/artist/photographer, whose would it be and why?

I would love to get in mind and imagination of my favorite musicians. Their music inspire me so much, also in photography!

7. Apart from photography what other activities do you enjoy? How do you spend your free time?

I enjoy being with my family, dating with my wife, playing with my sons, living and spreading the Gospel, eating healthy and tasty. My plan is also to create some time in a week to play music again, so maybe you will see me soon on a stage, although all the previous activities are more important (maybe except the eating part), so the music must wait for it's time.

8. What are your future plans for Delicious Presets and for yourself as a photographer?

I'm now into creating new products for Delicious Presets to get great colors fast with customer's software of preference. It also helped my own photography business, as recently I just cut my editing time by five times, preserving my favorite colors!

There is always a room for improvement, and I want to better and better serve the people I photograph and other photographers through Delicious Presets.

9. What advice would you like to give to budding and aspiring photographers?

Build YOUR own taste and follow YOUR own inspirations written in YOUR heart. Reveal the Beauty, Goodness and Truth which all will last forever.

Thanks Krzysztof for taking out the time and doing this interview with us we'd like to wish you the very best for the future.

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