Professional advertising photographer Yuri Afanasiev, Moscow, Russia.

Member of FEP (Federation of European Professional Photographers).
Member of Guild of advertising photographers of Russia.
In 2007, Yuri Afanasiev got a certificate QEP (Qualified European Photographer Advertising).
In 2009, Yuri Afanasiev was awarded The "FEP European Professional Photographer of the Year Awards 2009" Pictorial category and Fine Art. 

Broad-based photographer (35 years of experience) on his site PHOTORU.RU displays samples of his works in different styles and trends. There is portfolio, stock photography & image, and articles about photography. The site photoru.ru is interesting for everybody who is fond of pictures and wants to have a look at diverse world through the eyes of modern photographer. It also is interesting for those who want to make use of services of a professional photographer to create elaborate important and liable work.

The main activity is advertising photography and art photography.

Types of works creating by photographer Yuri Afanasiev are the following: advertising photography, representational photography, model photography, business portraits, fashion-photography, architecture and interior photography, machines and equipment, creative photography, macro (close-up) photography, art photography, landscape panoramic photography, pictorialism and visiting photography (off-premise cattering).

Works with Russian and foreign advertising agencies, design bureau, photo agencies, model agencies and magazines are also published on the web site.

Photographer Yuri Afanasiev gives seminars and master-classes, teaches the art of taking pictures and computer processing of images, tests photo equipment and make presentations of equipment at specialized photo exhibitions.

In portfolio of Yuri Afanasiev one can see photos in high resolution on the following subjects: landscapes from all over the world, nature, architecture, advertising photography, portraits, panoramic pictures, models' portfolio, sunrise / sunset, flowers, macro shooting, erotic art nu, transport photos and art gallery.

In the section ARTICLES one can read stories about journeys, photo tours with models. There are also interesting articles about photos, how to take photos professionally in different genres and a lot of other interesting information.

In the section PHOTOEQUIPMENT you can find advice from professional photographer how to chose cameras, read about tests of the latest photo equipment. The latest tests: Canon 1Ds MarkIII, Nikon D3X, SONY DSLR-A700, SONY DSLR-A900. Test of digital body - Sinarback eMotion75 and camera SInar Hy6.

The site photoru.ru is interesting for those who want to make creative images for advertisements or find finished photoes in the image bank. There are high quality photos of nature, gallery of art photos and pictorialism, library of erotic photos is also in the bank. Here you can chose up-scale photos for magazines, advertisements, interior design, art photo exhibition.

Section COOPERATION is interesting for models, visagistes, stylists and disigners.

In the section PHOTO LESSONS there is advice and secrets of the profession from experienced photografer who has been many years in profession.

Section CALENDARS deposits exclusive pictures and samples of calendar for the next year, Calendar for 2011, pictures for calendars.

VIDEO. It is planning to deposit video clips, slide show, video classes.

PHOTO STUDIO Professional photo studio: all you need to realize photo session. Modern shooting and lighting equipment, various backgrounds, properties. Mobile photo studio.