Sofia Does Perfume Commercial

elfving73

Hello friends!

Had a shoot with my colleague Sofia this afternoon, just for the fun of it. At the end of the session, we sorta freaked out a little, "let's try to do a cheezy commercial for something" kind of. *Haha* So, these was the two last frames tonight.... it's meant to be you know, a bit exaggerated in a slight parody way. )
Regards / Matty

STLMach1

Definitely a bit over-exaggerated but oddly, I somewhat like these shots. I think had she held the bottle a bit differently, her fingers wouldn't be so awkwardly positioned but for the most part, they're cool shots!

Michael

photogmomma

These are so much fun! I am really loving them! I think if you fixed up the minor font a bit (it's too choppy), they would be great as a post for giggles and grins.

Gorgeous girl and wonderful photos!

JimM

Beautiful girl, great exposure. I find her molars in the first image distracting. Maybe not have her open her mouth so much? Another nit-pick, she could use some longer finger nails.

Ted Szukalski

I like the first shot a lot. It is dynamic, it is fun and it is clearly complimentary relationship between the model and the perfume.

What I did notice and this is to no derement, is the asymetry of the eyes. I have had a similar experiece with a very well known model - I took a lot of photos and could not use any of them as the asymetry was too evident in each one.

JimM

Ted Szukalski wrote:

What I did notice and this is to no derement, is the asymetry of the eyes. I have had a similar experiece with a very well known model - I took a lot of photos and could not use any of them as the asymetry was too evident in each one.

Ted, I am not sure exactly what you mean by this?

DavidTO

Very cool!

The second one looks like she's giving us the finger!

ChrisJ

JimM wrote:

Ted, I am not sure exactly what you mean by this?

In the first shot, it looks like her left eye is open wider (or it's just bigger) than her right eye. I didn't notice this until I read Ted's message...

Cool shots, Matty... #2 looks like it should be in some Hollywood magazine...

saurora

Great shots (for fun) Matty! I really like the lighting and exposure in the first shot and the pose in the 2nd is really clever (I agree with DavidTo's assessment of the shot!) She's a beautiful girl and if these were actual advertisements, I'm sure you could have "tweaked" her assymetrical eyes in PS, etc., etc., etc. But she actually has great skin, hair and eye color and probably would be a dream to work with.

Ted Szukalski

Jim, this is quite natural and common and especially manifested during a laughter or cry. Each eye opens or closes to a different degree and unfortunatly in photography it looks like the model had to differently shaped eyes. The model I was referring to was doing this when she was nervous - facing big audience.

JimM wrote:

Ted, I am not sure exactly what you mean by this?

elfving73

Thank you, Michael!
You know, this was just for fun, but we did spend a minute or two trying to find a good way to hold and present the bottle. But dang, it's not all that easy to make it look gracil and in the same time expose as much of the bottle as possible. Kuddos to all great models!

Matty

STLMach1 wrote:

Definitely a bit over-exaggerated but oddly, I somewhat like these shots. I think had she held the bottle a bit differently, her fingers wouldn't be so awkwardly positioned but for the most part, they're cool shots!

Michael

elfving73

Thank you! Haha! You know, this was meant as parody on commercial, so we did exaggregate it as much as possible. That's why opens her mouth so much! Yepp, longer fingernails would do the trick, but I guess you can't have it all! haha!

Matty

JimM wrote:

Beautiful girl, great exposure. I find her molars in the first image distracting. Maybe not have her open her mouth so much? Another nit-pick, she could use some longer finger nails.

elfving73

Thank you, Ted!
Yes, I noticed that too, and so did she when we where glancing through the pics. She wasn't aware of that since before. Well, guess there's nothing much to do about it. The eyes doesn't look asymetric on every pic.

Matty

Ted Szukalski wrote:

I like the first shot a lot. It is dynamic, it is fun and it is clearly complimentary relationship between the model and the perfume.

What I did notice and this is to no derement, is the asymetry of the eyes. I have had a similar experiece with a very well known model - I took a lot of photos and could not use any of them as the asymetry was too evident in each one.

elfving73

Thanx! Hehe! So you say, so you saaay!

Matty

DavidTO wrote:

Very cool!

The second one looks like she's giving us the finger!

elfving73

Hehe! Well, Ted is the one to blame then!

Thank you!

ChrisJ wrote:

In the first shot, it looks like her left eye is open wider (or it's just bigger) than her right eye. I didn't notice this until I read Ted's message...

Cool shots, Matty... #2 looks like it should be in some Hollywood magazine...

elfving73

Thank you! Yepp, that would have been easily done! Or, I would have chosen another pic, because I took quite many, and she doesn't show off this asymetri on many pictures. It comes and goes.

Matty

saurora wrote:

Great shots (for fun) Matty! I really like the lighting and exposure in the first shot and the pose in the 2nd is really clever (I agree with DavidTo's assessment of the shot!) She's a beautiful girl and if these were actual advertisements, I'm sure you could have "tweaked" her assymetrical eyes in PS, etc., etc., etc. But she actually has great skin, hair and eye color and probably would be a dream to work with.

ian408

Fun stuff and nicely done!

Nikolai

Very nice, Matty!
Your colleague looks like fun to work with:-)