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Ground effect

kweide — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:49:41 +0000

… or better the mirror effect. Put her onto the ground and let her look into a beautiful mirror. Not a small one but a large old mirror and let her play facial expression. And ask her for eye contact via the mirror. That is your moment to take pictures. If you can, avoid flash light, try using a simple reflector and watch the reflections thru the mirror. Have fun with that play…

EM-1 what else ??

… mirror …

kweide — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 07:47:37 +0000

“More left, no better right, bend a bit, stretch more, take the hand to the left, bow, smile, no not such ….”, boy. Posing is a hard job and i found it is not possible or hard to realize by words. It is better to act as her mirror and to show how she has to pose, what to show. It is way faster and easy and offers a lot of fun too. Suddenly you entertain your model :) Not a bad idea at all! But shown facial expressions may result in surprising results and that means you have to be alerted, have your finger ready to push the button on you cam.

I did it exactly that way and you see what i got. Just a fraction of a second later, the expression was gone, the scene lost and she laughed out loud… so what… i had my picture and we had fun.
Olympus E-M5, what els, one large reflector

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 :)

Had a walk

kweide — Sun, 20 May 2012 13:36:52 +0000

The weather was fine and together with some photographer friends we made a guided citytour. The guide, a wonderful girl, had deep and intimate knowledge and gave us exciting informations on the city we love so much. BTW we all went through the town just with Olympus E-P3, one E-500 and i saw one E-30 as well. But the rest walked with Pens and some new OMD Systems. That was great fun.

We saw wonderful light, warm, golden, touching ancient buildings.

Found colorful mirrors

magical water channels, named Fleet

and yes, some rotten bicycles as well.
It was a fantastic experience again, walking with my buddies, sharing same interests and using their equipement as they used mine. We had fun, fun, fu. So what prevents YOU from doing the same ?? Ask your friends, find a date and just do IT. You will enjoy it like we did

Mirror, mirror…

kweide — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:38:29 +0000

“Mirror, mirror on the wall, tell me who is ….” And the mirror, always telling the truth answered: “You but over the seven hills, behind the seven forests….!” Remember it ?

Take a look into the old mirror and ask the question: “Mirror, mirror on the wall …” And you will hear and see the answer :)

Olympus E-P, ISO400, Zuiko 45mm, f1.8, 1/80 second, no flash used

The mirror

kweide — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 10:37:26 +0000

The mirror is your friend. That is something your subject should always know and of course use to develop her own pose work and gestures as well. The mirror is silent, no comment, no smile, no “oh noooooo”. It gives peace and freedom of work.

The outcome is, that your subject is secure in gestures, poses and behavior when it comes to the real shooting and can use a rich spectrum of trained and working sets.

Olympus E-P3, ISO200, Zuiko 45 mm, f1.8, 1/80 second, one bounced flash