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Fiery Flower of the Orient

kweide — Sat, 07 Feb 2015 18:51:55 +0000

Another one with the exciting Sandra, the Curve of Germany :) One addition from the workbench. Enjoy it. No more words, let the picture speak…

Olympus E-M1, any doubts ?

Dance the night away

kweide — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 07:45:04 +0000

A stunning dance performance in the deep night, performed while a local party in the small village of Palma, Sicily. It was bad light, high speed dance movements but E-M1 caught the moments.

So trust your cam and try it yourself. You will be surprised of the result

Prepare …

kweide — Wed, 09 Oct 2013 12:39:41 +0000

Prepare for the new set. Try – on all the stuff ready for the scene. This is a kind of adventure. And we see it will be fun but exhausting. Crazy, wild and rich of colors. You will see more of our future work very soon.

Olympus E-M1, Summilux 25, no flash

Try – on

kweide — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 10:50:39 +0000

Be prepared. Always try to train what you want to do in an upcoming shooting. Try to train the scene and even make a try-on session with your model. It is essential to be sure that everyone knows what to do an how to do ! When the set comes to live there is no room for asking “How …?” Such a try-on session gives you an idea how complicted things can be. See this picture. It look simple to attach the crown to her hair. But when she practices her dance moves we saw it sliding away. Great laughter. Fortunately we were prepared. A handful of needles did the job and everything was fine and fixed. So the session could go on without any trouble.

Olympus E-M5, M.Zuiko 45

Dance with me …

kweide — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 07:22:13 +0000

Dance with me in this hot, golden light of beginning dusk. Touch the sky, feel the emotion, feel the power. Thats what this tree tells. And you would be foul not hearing what it says. So sit down, watch the gentle move f its leaves in th golden light of beginning dusk, the late afternoon, see its arms reaching for the sky, touching heaven, embracing the sky, connecting Mother Earth and Father heaven. Embrace it and dance with the tree…establish an emotional layer between you and the tree. Let it work.

Olympus E-M5

Udaipur – the feet

kweide — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 14:07:21 +0000

The feet — our girls from Udaipur, not only a veil, a face or a beautiful body or jewelry. Often not really seen but the have an important role as well : The feet, painted red, doing heavy duty execution, moving gently and elegant. And after their job, they relax on the bed, waiting for my camera :)

Olympus E-M5 again, no flash, tripod,

Silent take over …

kweide — Sun, 19 May 2013 13:23:05 +0000

And while our indian girl from Udaipur is playing around with the veils, with her silk, her shining jewelry behind her occours a starnge action. While the music plays, the singers and the indian rythmic of music she moved more and more to this tones. Moving her body, her feet to the moving, not recognizing that Parvati is going to dance behind her. Powerful and full of energy. She is going to tke over the spirit of our indian girl, no, it is different, Parvatis soul penetrates the body of that Udaipurs girl, overtake her soul. Leading her to dance, to enjoy even life and feel the love of Shiva.

OMD, what else could do this job :) ??

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…