About
5 years of nights, packed into files you can use tomorrow.
Elevate.photo is one working party photographer sharing the looks and the habits that made the job easier.
Hi, I am Dávid
I shoot the part of the night nobody remembers clearly.
For the last 5 years I have been the photographer at parties, club nights, launches and private events: the person in the corner with a flash, trying to make a dark, loud room look as good in the morning as it felt at 2 a.m.
Early on, every night ended with the same problem. Mixed light, haze, LEDs that clipped to magenta, and a thousand frames to turn around fast. The presets on this site are the fix I built for myself, one shoot at a time. The guides are the notes I wish someone had handed me before the first one.
Elevate.photo exists so you do not have to spend five years working it out. Buy a pack, read a guide, go shoot the night.
Dávid Jaksa
Party and event photographer, founder of Elevate.photo
Tested at work
Nothing goes in a pack until it has carried a paid night from first frame to delivered gallery.
Honest files
Real XMP and DNG presets, not screenshots of sliders. You can open them, read them and change them.
Still shooting
The presets get updated because the venues keep changing their lights. Updates are free.