Eleonor (posing in a stairwell)
Hello friends!
Had a shooting with Eleonor last thursday night. It was just a spontanious whim. You know, I was bored, my kids were sleeping, my camera was sobbing in it's bag. Suddenly, Eleonor showed up on MSN and said something like "How about some shooting some day?" So, I asked her "Why not tonight?" and she said "Sure, cool!" So, what to do? Whaaat to do? We couldn't be out, 'cause it was very cold and snowing. So, I came up with this idea to drive to Östermalm (the inner city part of Stockolm, you know, where the affluent and sophisticated people lives). The architecture is very nice and the stairwells (is that what they are called?) are very stylish and fancy. So that is what we did! No offence, rich people, but GEEE how suspicious, disagreeable, patronizing etc. they are! (Ok, I know! You can't generalize like that, sorry, but that's what it felt like right there and then!) You know, to get in, I had to call on the house entry phone, (picking someone at random) and explain who I am, what I want and why. I even offered to show them my driving lincens to identify myself - but still, I was answered with disdain and supspicioun (for WHAT?). Like the sixth dude I called came down, opened the door and listned. He let us in, but he just stod there with his arms crossed and STARED at us. His wife even came down and said to him, without even giving us a glance "Darling! You can't leave them alone, you understand that, huh?" So, quite soon we had it and moved on to another house. Finaly, we met a very nice and agreeable women who let us in, and she even gave us the code, if we'd like to come back sometime! :thumb Fine woman! So, finaly we got to do some photography! *Haha* Here is a few samples. I have done all post processing on my new laptop (am at work, tuff work huh?) and I feel a bit unsure about how they actually look. First time! Comments and critics are most welcome.
I'm quite happy with a few of them, but when asking my spouse she said "Oh well, I dunno... I think she look slutty!" So typical her! :O\ Haha!
Regards / Matty
OH NO NO NO! When reviewing my own post, I detected a blunder! Stu-hu-hu-pid me! I've done the classic "Adobe RGB"-misstake! (From RAW as Adobe RGB instead of sRGB. I guess Adobe RGB is standard when Photoshop is installed) The colors are wrong, and they are all to bright!
Had a shooting with Eleonor last thursday night. It was just a spontanious whim. You know, I was bored, my kids were sleeping, my camera was sobbing in it's bag. Suddenly, Eleonor showed up on MSN and said something like "How about some shooting some day?" So, I asked her "Why not tonight?" and she said "Sure, cool!" So, what to do? Whaaat to do? We couldn't be out, 'cause it was very cold and snowing. So, I came up with this idea to drive to Östermalm (the inner city part of Stockolm, you know, where the affluent and sophisticated people lives). The architecture is very nice and the stairwells (is that what they are called?) are very stylish and fancy. So that is what we did! No offence, rich people, but GEEE how suspicious, disagreeable, patronizing etc. they are! (Ok, I know! You can't generalize like that, sorry, but that's what it felt like right there and then!) You know, to get in, I had to call on the house entry phone, (picking someone at random) and explain who I am, what I want and why. I even offered to show them my driving lincens to identify myself - but still, I was answered with disdain and supspicioun (for WHAT?). Like the sixth dude I called came down, opened the door and listned. He let us in, but he just stod there with his arms crossed and STARED at us. His wife even came down and said to him, without even giving us a glance "Darling! You can't leave them alone, you understand that, huh?" So, quite soon we had it and moved on to another house. Finaly, we met a very nice and agreeable women who let us in, and she even gave us the code, if we'd like to come back sometime! :thumb Fine woman! So, finaly we got to do some photography! *Haha* Here is a few samples. I have done all post processing on my new laptop (am at work, tuff work huh?) and I feel a bit unsure about how they actually look. First time! Comments and critics are most welcome.
I'm quite happy with a few of them, but when asking my spouse she said "Oh well, I dunno... I think she look slutty!" So typical her! :O\ Haha!
Regards / Matty
OH NO NO NO! When reviewing my own post, I detected a blunder! Stu-hu-hu-pid me! I've done the classic "Adobe RGB"-misstake! (From RAW as Adobe RGB instead of sRGB. I guess Adobe RGB is standard when Photoshop is installed) The colors are wrong, and they are all to bright!
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Super pics......I see what ya mean a few are a tad bright and color is slightly hue'd. Easy fix tho!
Holy cow man!!!
If my wife knew I was taking picks of a hottie like that I'd be sleeping in the car with my camera!
For a LONG time....ok FOREVER!!
Great shoot......and the model isn't bad either! :wow
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Naa.. I know what you mean! But thinking of it.... sleeping in the car with the camera, doesn't sound all that bad, now does it?
Matty
My favorites are:
Similar, I guess... The "look" and her eyes really pop in the first one. I'd almost prefer slightly less overly distracing cleavage, but it's definitely nice as-is.
#1 and #5 (I think) seem a bit OOF on the model. Just me? Might want to put some numbers on them so they're easier to reference.
you got 'em, baby-
oh, and by the way, great photos!
and love the bw's-
george
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You know what thats a good question. I retract my previous ones. All I need is that and ask her if she has a MySpace account.
Well, I didn't have any influence on her choice of dressup. Of course, by shooting in different angles we could have diminshed the exposure of her cheast area. But to me it's not distracting, I think her eyes are more captivating.
Yes, some of the pics didn't come out pin sharp. Í guess I'm rather novice when it comes to shoot in enviroments like this. The light was rather dim, so I used my speedlite and a tripod. Yet, I got a few oof and a few with motionblúr. I'll work on it!
Regards / Matty
Matty
I used my 10D, Sigma 18-125 mm f3.5-f5.6, speedlite 580EX and a little white umbrella that I held in the other hand to bounce the flash. Rather experimetive, that's part of what I like with photography. The pics came out far better that way, compare to bouncing the flash on the walls/ceiling.
Matty
Nice shots, nice model, nice post-processing, nice location finding work..
Now to the very mellow, totally friendly and purely constructive critique
I, for one, do not have any problem with any amount of cleavage, Michiel de Brieder (or anybody else who knows me personally) would testify for me.
I may be mistaken, but it seems to me that her eyes could use a tad less sharpening. It's purely judgement call, but that's what caught my attention.
Apart from that - let me congratulate you once again on a nice series and a great model. I wish I had somebody like her to pop up on my IM from time to time
Cheers!
Two Stupid Things I Saw Yesterday
Guy comes into the liquor store I manage (stop me if you've heard this one!) and wants a pint o' booze. He dumps a bunch of quarters of the counter. "My wife didn't do the laundry, so I've got all these quarters." he explains. "She said I didn't have enough kahunas to buy a pint with only quarters! I said, Yeah, I got plenty of kahunas right here!" He notices me laughing. "I do have enough kahunas, right? Waitaminnit--what are 'kahunas'?" "Cohones," I say, "Balls." "Balls?!" he exclaims. "I thought kahunas meant quarters!!"
Springtime in New England: Ice Storm. My condo is at the top of a sharp hill. When it's iced up, the only way your car will get up it is to drop gears and floor it. Try taking it nice and slow and you'll spin wheels at the half-way point. Last night around midnight wheels were spinning so severely I heard them with headphones on. I pull up the window shade to watch, as I find it weirdly funny to watch these futile displays. This big ol' car spins forwards a little, then slides back, spins forward a little, repeat as necessary. Suddenly, every door but the driver's pops open, and 3 alterna-dudes stick a leg out of the car and begin flailing one foot at the ground like Fred Flintstone, as if that would help get the 2-ton car up the hill. The backmost dude is glancing all around, with an obvious look of "Hope nobody's watching me make an ass of myself." And I watched.
Maybe you had to be there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah
Chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The word derives from Yiddish khutspe used by Jewish people originally from Eastern Europe. This, in turn, derived from Hebrew חוצפה ("khutz-pah"), universal to Jews throughout history, and by now the word and idea have taken on wider usage, having been spread through film, literature and television.
Though originally referring to a negative quality, the word chutzpah has developed some interesting positive connotations in English usage, which remaining still harshly negative when used by English-speaking Jews. In Hebrew chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has outstepped the boundaries of accepted polite behaviour for selfish reasons, while in English chutzpah can be spoken in admiration of non-conformist but gutsy audacity. Leo Rosten in The Joys of Yiddish defines chutzpah as "gall, brazen nerve, effrontery, incredible 'guts', presumption plus arrogance such as no other word and no other language can do justice to."
One humorous example of chutzpah is often given as follows: "A boy is on trial for murdering his parents, and he begs of the judge leniency because he is an orphan."
Great work Matty.
and I thought I had a long post-
george
I guess I have to admit that you're right on every point, the hands are to big and some of them could need a little less sharpening. Personally, big hands doesn't bothre me toooo much, it's more like "that hand is closer to me than her head, so automatically, it should look bigger than it is.
Matty
Hehe! Great stories! *Giggle-Giggle*:D
Matty
yes-
one would hope not to the point of being that type of orphan, though-
george
Wow, Great Photos!
I love the staircase & Eleonor was dressed to kill.
Does Eleonor do photo shoots with other photographers?
Keep up the good work! I was disctracted with the hands
in the photos where they was closer to you.
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Her eyes.
Yes, I know that's supposed to be the focal point. But it really appears that they have been enhanced - to my tastes too much - and I find it distracting. Picture 8 is the worst for this - it really looks like you masked the eyes, blurred the rest, then sharpened the eyes. I see similar effects in other pics as well, though not so obvious. It looks artificial to me. I think it is somewhat compounded by the way her mascara is done.
Personal preference maybe, but I find it a distraction in an otherwise very pretty set of pictures.
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I do believe you're right, David-
I sure wasn't checking out the skin tones the first time 'round-
george