Debbie: Top 12 (warning: implicit content)

NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
edited August 25, 2008 in People
It's been two weeks since I put up the teaser post from this shoot... Now it's time to pay up my debts..:-)

1. OK, this is Debbie:

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2. She liked my fabrics a lot:

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3. She also has a cute friend (whom I shot before and who an fact introduced her to me):

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4. It can get very hot on my "location hikes"

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5. But, in return, you can get a place all for yourself:

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6. We continued to play with chiffon outside, first with blue:

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7. Then with pink:

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8. Then with red:

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9. Until we decided to ditch it all and go for a pure expression:

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10. You can tell she was pretty happy with what we were getting:

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11. And even though she was tired, she had enough energy to go for a couple more looks:

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12. It's always good to relax at the end of the long and productive shoot:

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Enjoy, C&C is welcome!
"May the f/stop be with you!"

Comments

  • PineapplePhotoPineapplePhoto Registered Users Posts: 474 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
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  • VisualXpressionsVisualXpressions Registered Users Posts: 860 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    :jawdrop Can I just be your assistant Nik... I'll work for eye candythumb.gif

    Winston
  • schmooschmoo Registered Users Posts: 8,468 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    Nik, you've come such a long way since the first time I saw your modeling work. You studio lighting is really fantastic! thumb.gif

    I love the shot of Debbie with the blue chiffon. Even against the blue sky it's a great shot, reminds me of places like the Mediterranean with those colors.

    I'm seeing a lot of banding in the sky, however, which I find distracting. I don't remember seeing such artifacts in your shots before. Was it something different in your processing of this set?
  • DavidTODavidTO Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 19,160 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    :jawdrop Can I just be your assistant Nik... I'll work for eye candythumb.gif

    Winston


    Let's keep the conversation on the photography. deal.gif

    We really don't need to know what you'd do to get some eye candy. eek7.gif
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    schmoo wrote:
    Nik, you've come such a long way since the first time I saw your modeling work. You studio lighting is really fantastic! thumb.gif

    I love the shot of Debbie with the blue chiffon. Even against the blue sky it's a great shot, reminds me of places like the Mediterranean with those colors.

    I'm seeing a lot of banding in the sky, however, which I find distracting. I don't remember seeing such artifacts in your shots before. Was it something different in your processing of this set?

    Steph,
    thank you for commenting!
    Banding this is probably effect of two things:
    1) vignetting in ACR (kinda artifical gradient)
    2) low res L version ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    :jawdrop Can I just be your assistant Nik... I'll work for eye candythumb.gif

    Winston
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    I knew it was not the stuff I do, but the stuff I shoot, that draws attention :-)
    I'm glad my own work is so "in" that it looks "all natural". Although one should've seen all the takeouts and the originals to appreciate that :-) lol3.gif
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  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    They are all just STUNNING. I think my top pick of them is #7, that one just makes me go: :jawdrop
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 24, 2008
    Shima wrote:
    They are all just STUNNING. I think my top pick of them is #7, that one just makes me go: :jawdrop
    Thanks Cat! thumb.gif
    The "pink series" did require a bit of a work to set up, glad to hear our efforts paid up:-) mwink.gifclap.gif
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  • Darren Troy CDarren Troy C Registered Users Posts: 1,927 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    7 & 9...absolutely FINE! iloveyou.gif
  • Moogle PepperMoogle Pepper Registered Users Posts: 2,950 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Dang it!! I really need to move to LA!! Not just visit for a shoot! rolleyes1.gif


    Is that location shoots, the same as the others?
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Idlewild wrote:
    7 & 9...absolutely FINE! iloveyou.gif
    Thanks! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Dang it!! I really need to move to LA!! Not just visit for a shoot! rolleyes1.gif
    Is that location shoots, the same as the others?
    Laughing.gif... I think there are plenty of this material in NY/NJ, you just need to look :-)
    Yes, location is the same where I shot Shade and Tawny. It's a ~45 min hike mwink.gif , at least this time girls helped me a bit with the gear carrying, otherwise it was a whole hour. ne_nau.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • SamSam Registered Users Posts: 7,419 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Nikolai,

    Schmoo hit the nail on the head. The improvement in your photos is astonishing!

    I REALLY need to take a few days, and drive to LA to learn from the master.

    Sam
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Sam wrote:
    Nikolai,

    Schmoo hit the nail on the head. The improvement in your photos is astonishing!

    I REALLY need to take a few days, and drive to LA to learn from the master.

    Sam
    I'm flattered bowdown.gif . Thank you!thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • lightdrunklightdrunk Registered Users Posts: 89 Big grins
    edited August 25, 2008
    Nice looking woman. Clichee photos.
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