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The model always wins ;) (18+)
Hello everybody!
Unfortunately my primary camera body needed some repair. Anyway I decided to have a shoot with Carka and the images turned out very well. And that was a good decission. Not so many pixels with my D70s but that does not matter here. Enjoy:
#1
#2
#3
#4
And after all, we ended up in this:
#5
Because the model always wins. As I said.
Comments and critics are always welcome!
Have fun!
Thomas
Unfortunately my primary camera body needed some repair. Anyway I decided to have a shoot with Carka and the images turned out very well. And that was a good decission. Not so many pixels with my D70s but that does not matter here. Enjoy:
#1
#2
#3
#4
And after all, we ended up in this:
#5
Because the model always wins. As I said.
Comments and critics are always welcome!
Have fun!
Thomas
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LIKE EM'.
Best IMO are 1 and 4, probably because of the eye contact - Although they are a little soft in #1.... Not a deal-breaker though.
awesome model and great stuff!
Last one is hilarious
My only nit is with #3. Apart from being apparently uncomfortable for her, I don't think it plays nicely for the viewer. The crucial part is her left leg. I don't have a clear idea at the moment how improve it, just a general feeling of "it doesn't work", you know...
Poses like that (extremely physically challenging/uncomfortable to hold) can often bring great results, but they are also often very easy to screw up...
Here's what I did in a more-or-less similar case: http://nik.smugmug.com/photos/493815575_2nU4G-XL.jpg
As you can see I opted for a matching limbs position and an almost pure profile. A viable option would be asking her to raise one bent leg and place the toes onto the other leg's knee, thus creating another traingular space, but I didn't have a heart to ask her to do that since she was already in a highly precarious position...
One again - great series!
The 4th is the one I like the best, I agree with Nik regarding the 3rd photo, And the last one is great!!
Keep them coming.
Z.
Nelson Lehner
Dreamin' of a resolution!:D
Nikon D300, 18-135/3.5-5.6, 70-300/4.5-5.6, SB800
OneTwoFiftieth | Portland, Oregon | Modern Portraiture
My Equipment:
Bodies: Canon 50D, Canon EOS 1
Lenses: Canon 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5, Canon 24-105mm f/4L IS, Canon 50mm f/1.4, Canon 100mm f/2.8 Macro, Canon MP-E 65mm f/2.8
Lighting: Canon 580EXII, Canon 420 EX, 12" Reflector, Pocket Wizard Plus II (3), AB800 (3), Large Softbox
Stability: Manfrotto 190CXPRO3 Tripod, Manfrotto 488RC4 Ball Head, Manfrotto 679B Monopod
On many sites you get only something like "great image", "beautyful" or even more strange "wow". But that here really helps.
Nik, with regard to her left leg, I think it's not working so well because of the strong angle at the knee, that "arrow" points to a meaningless direction and the eye of the viewer is not stopped. Also the light at the lower left side might be a bit brighter to reduce the contrast in not so interesting areas around feet and knees. Thanks for the hint, I didn't see that. The image you linked, I would have fear that the model might fall down. But I think everything went well and the image can be enjoied without cutback.
Wade, she did take care for the makeup herself. Luky me to get such a talent
Candid Arts, the postprocessing was in deed a bit more then what I usually apply to my images. Most of the time I go with Capture NX2. Everything from retouching, skin enhancements and the basic raw processing of course goes in that. To complete the image I enhanced it even more with GIMP in basically two steps that makes the bronze-colored, or silver look. First a sharpening after desaturating to values, with huge radius to get that shiny look and applied with opacity to please. Then with a dup of the layer again desaturated to value and with opacity to please.The effect works thanks to her tanned skin.
Thanks again!