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Details

kweide — Thu, 22 May 2014 10:42:16 +0000

Today we go into details: Jewelry, necklace, bracelet, rings. I took some tribal gems. Whatever you can find will fit too. Those details are a great stuff for stills. Place them on some dark veil or fabrics and take your picture. You can even combine it with a sweet texture to get some special effects to it or convert it into a strong BW composition as i did.

Olymis E-M1 + M.Zuiko 12-40 @ f2.8

Discover

kweide — Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:06:26 +0000

While searching for the light, flagging it, steering it to where you want it to be, have a close look to the dark parts, to the shadows. Maybe you discover a gem… like me. So do not hesitate, take the chance and a picture as well. Put it together with what you already learned about composing, creating analog film look and give it a special look. That is all about it. OK, crop it if you need to do so but never change the mood of the picture. Always remember YOUR mood, your feeling when you took the photo. Such should show up in the final work as well.

Olympus E-M1, M.Zuiko 45 @ f1.8, ISO200 and 1/100 second, no flash used…

The needle

kweide — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 05:36:19 +0000

Go for details, is one of my often used approaches in shootings to establish an emotional layer with my subject. It is fun and it breaks the ice. You will get laughter and astonished looking model, while you are on the search for some good looking details. But that is all about it. When you concentrate and focus on one detail you will see your subject is focussing as well on this little detail, trying to show it from its best side. A session within a session. This is exciting ! New situations will derive from such “mini-sessions” giving new inspirations to both of you.

The only thing you have to do is to look ! Just open your view and detect details while working on the complete scene.
In this case, she was the initial factor. Always trying to fix that needles in her hair, preventing them from falling to the ground. “Pling” it made and it was again on the ground. So we made it the center of a mini-shoot and got a lot of new ideas for the planned shooting. Altering the flow with that new ideas. And got new ideas for an alternative shooting based on that tiny needle…

All done with Olympus E-M5, Summilux 25, f1.4 ISO250, 1/160 second and one remote triggered flash with 1/32 power and bounced !!!

Invisible

kweide — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 07:29:36 +0000

It happens nearly all the time, that things are done invisible to others. Small acts, gestures, movements not recognized. It is worth looking close. Look ! Look what your model is doing while not being photographed. See all the funny things she is doing while not in your focus, unobserved. Try to catch such moments of unbelievable beauty.

You will never regret. And again it is an easy setup for this picture. Olympus E-5, ISO100, f4.5, 1/30 second to let the roomlight register, one single hotshoe flash bounced to my left into one white reflector a bit behind her.