Anna on the beach

Nikolai

This is part two of my Saturday shoot. By this time I realized at least some of the mistakes I made while shooting Julz and tried to fix them.

1. This is Anna:



2. I liked her "on the rocks" hot look:



3. In fact she was so hot I had to ask her to cool herself down, which she did:




4. Apparently one bottle was not enough, so we decided to use the Pacific itself:



5. .. where she strangely became even hotter ;-)



Enjoy! C&C welcome!

roentarre

She is simply gorgeous!

Your lighting technique is simply superb

She does look a little cold though. :ivar

patrickbellair

at what time did you shoot this image ??

Nikolai

roentarre wrote:

She is simply gorgeous!

Your lighting technique is simply superb

She does look a little cold though. :ivar

Thank you!
And yes, it was rather cold. While this is not Oregon, it's not Baja either. All the girls were pretty brave to go into water while keeping their smiles on their faces...

Nikolai

patrickbellair wrote:

at what time did you shoot this image ??

I believe the whole shoot took place between 10am and 1pm. It was a bit overcast though

cerpintor

Something about the lighting on these puts me off. If this set didn't include the last 2 shots where I can see she's definitely on a beach, I'd have guessed the session was done indoors with a printed backdrop. The lighting on her skin just looks too artificial to me and almost removes her from the scene she's in.

Just to add a caveat to that - it's not a criticism, just an opinion based on gut reaction. I have no technical know-how whatsoever so certainly could not improve on them or even suggest how it might be done. I'm just saying what I felt when I saw them.

Nikolai

cerpintor wrote:

Something about the lighting on these puts me off. If this set didn't include the last 2 shots where I can see she's definitely on a beach, I'd have guessed the session was done indoors with a printed backdrop. The lighting on her skin just looks too artificial to me and almost removes her from the scene she's in.

Just to add a caveat to that - it's not a criticism, just an opinion based on gut reaction. I have no technical know-how whatsoever so certainly could not improve on them or even suggest how it might be done. I'm just saying what I felt when I saw them.

I should have had a really large studio to hit that rock in
Thanks for the feedback!

grimace

Nice job Nik!! I actually like the lighting on the 1st couple of shots. Well done for a beach shot!!

Nikolai

grimace wrote:

Nice job Nik!! I actually like the lighting on the 1st couple of shots. Well done for a beach shot!!

Thanks, Adam! I'll get better, I promise. Only in a few months - now it's too damn cold :-)