kweide wonderland

The girl of Udaipur

kweide — Sat, 18 May 2013 07:09:58 +0000

Or is it the princess in her rooms ? Playing around with her veils ? DMoving, dancing, feeling happy and free ? I dont know but it was a great fun shooting such scenes. It is easy, as told in former threads. Giving her a playbook, a scene, a role or just an idea where she can perform, guess what, she will do, she will perform and interpret it her way. The only thing you have to do is motivating, comment, give small hints or advices. And let the scene flow. Be surprised and shoot like hell …

Olympus E-M5, Summilux 25 mm @ f1.4, ISO200, 1/160 second and one single flash thru a Softbox

She does testing

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:37:13 +0000

It is not easy doing the impressive gestures indian dancer can do. It needs a lot of training and for european it is a challenging task to do like them. But she is a brave one and she is going to do it. Here i found her doing such facial test with a mirror.

OK, that is a way, esp. when clothed in original indian dance coustumes. She likes it much. And i have the chance to do some pictures :)

Test it

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 14:55:36 +0000

“I got to test”, thats what she said, while having a break. She looked some indian dancer pictures and films and saw their mostly static facial expression and their massive eye work, their support thru hands and gestures supported with arms and hands. She tried that a lot and had lots of fun doing so.

But a break is a break and while relaxing she is still thinking on what she had seen in the film, going thru the dancers positions, each by each, testing them in mind….

We are really interested in seeing her performing arts…

Concentration

kweide — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:34:44 +0000

New themes, new territory. Dance is the theme, indian dance to be precise. This is a very special theme where one need more. More costumes, more make up, more jewelry. The dance is totally different to the dance we know and it is not only the moves but facial expressions as well. So you have to study it before designing a scene

Olympus E-M5, M. Zuiko 60 macro, 1/160 second and one flash thru a softbox from my left side.

She is back

kweide — Mon, 13 May 2013 15:34:34 +0000

Yesterday i asked myself what had happen to my greedy neighbor and his, hmm, irritating obsession…. Mrs. Robinson. I heard nothing from him or her for a long time. So i decided to call him, asking for any news and was fairly surprised. He told me, that really nothing happened in the last weeks. It was silent. He did not see her in the bus nor on the streets but she must be alive. He noticed from time to time little changes in her windows, flower arrangements and he saw that UPS never had problems delivering packages. I could hear him smile thru the phone when he said, he got the decision to proof her existence and would send me the proof via email and so he did.
He told me, that he did this snap two days ago, spying thru the little window her the roof of her house and he saw her gently moving her totally naked body only covered by some thin white border. He raised his cam and snap a picture and only one. This one:

He was so excited that he lost his stand and crashed down from his secure stand, down into the thorny bushes :) That was the real background info i missed ! Now i knew why his walking style the last days was so strange :)

Olymps E-M5, Summilux 25, one single flash bounced as always !

Am i beautiful ?

kweide — Sun, 12 May 2013 06:29:09 +0000

That´s a question every girl, every woman in world ask again and again. Sometimes in front of a mirror sometimes they ask YOU and look out, giving the right answer is not only “Yes, baby, sure…” or “No baby but the neighbor..” It is the nature of woman to show herself attractive, sexy, worth to fight for. And what is a photographers work in this question? Easy. You are the mirror on the wall: “You are the most beautiful in the world” and your pictures have to proof that fact otherwise they will beat you…

In this special case i took a former published picture and brushed it up with a vintage look, added some slight color spots to achieve the final look. And ? Yes she likes it :)

Ready for ….

kweide — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:59:52 +0000

Ready for the next step. It arrived. We are so happy to announce that our original indian dancer costume arrived. It is so beautiful in its colors: Orange, Green, Gold. Some jewelry is included. That gives us the chance to enter a complete new world: The world of indian dance, the world od Bharatanatyam, perhaps next Khatak and Odissi. Depends on the arrival of further costumes. The sizes are about european size 38 which should be M or L. We have to try out … Do you like it ?

Olympus E-M5, Summilux 25…

Highwayman

kweide — Wed, 08 May 2013 05:45:55 +0000

Down onto your knees and even lower. Use the articulated screen of your camera or look thru the plugin-EVF tilted upwards and discover the world of macro. See it. See them, those little insects crawling on the bloom. The highwaymen :) Ah, you should use your macro lens as well.

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 60 Macro…

Army of killers

kweide — Sun, 05 May 2013 16:30:37 +0000

Do you own a macro lens ? Or even an achromatic lens, screw-in type for your lens ? Okay, go and use it. The weather is fine, it is spring. All this little plants and creatures coming out of the ground out of their sub-urban homes. It is joir task to go onto your knees using your equipment. Look at the blooms, the green plants and the insects. Catch them with you cam and discover a totally different world, the makro-world. A wonderful cosmos full of surprise…

Olympus E-M4, M.Zuiko 60 Macro !

Tight view

kweide — Sat, 04 May 2013 15:02:22 +0000

This is an example of a picture i took, right in between two sets, while she was arranging her stuff. Me, sitting on the ground, the cam ready for the work. She, foundling with veils and stuff asking questions about this and that. And while she spoke she arranged and moved and suddenly she looked at me exactly this way:

So, what i did ?? I took the chance and made my picture. It was just a movement, an impulse and i was happy about the fact that my Oly cam E-M5 is so damned fast in AF and shutter release. Now you can she her tight view as well. Have fun
Olympus E-M5, ISO200 @ f3.5, Summilux 25, 1/160 second.