Actress …

kweide — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:58:17 +0000

She offered me another cup of tea and i nearly lost the cup….Girls like to play. Yes and man too. Now you know why it is essential to have a quick and responsive camera not in your bag but ready for the action near your hands.

Grap it, the camera i mean, and take your picture. And here is another big point you can easily see from such scenes: Yes the emotional layer. But it is another big point: When you try to get a model to pose for you, search for a model who is performing a story, choose the actress not the static model. Choose the one who wants to express something, who has a story to tell, a player, a performer, the actress. We do not need a statue, i do not like static poses in the pictures as you already know. Life is the key and the impact. That is only possible when you and your model act as story and storyteller. So express yourself in the pictures.

Details: Olympus E-5, Zuiko 50 Macro, ISO 1600, f5, 1/100 second. Again no additional light, no reflector and no hidden tricks. Just the light from the open window directed with a piece of paper from the actual newspaper that day :)

Be bold

kweide — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:39:44 +0000

From time to time, while planning what and how to shoot, special things happen to us. To you as well as to me. I promise, i bet, you know what i mean. Sitting at the table and talking with your model about how to dress, what poses looks best and so on. And while doing so you take some cake, a cup of tea. And she asked “You want another cup of tea ?” and leans foward. Her loose T-Shirt opens up, offering a view no real man can resist. First you try to hide your view looking into her eyes, talking normaly…. “Do you want another sweet cake ?” and again she offers a fantastiv view, smiling. Uhhhh, she knows what she is doing. Now YOU have to decide what to do. I know my preferred model very well so i know that she is playing a game, provocating me a a bit, offering the “boys view”. Okay, now i was bold, grapped the cam with the macro lens on it and shot directly into her wide open décolleté.

“Oh thanks my dear, yes i like another cake”, was my bold answer after doing so, smiling again into her smiling face, acting as if nothing had happend. Do not try this bold act with a stranger girl ! She will beat you down ! You need to have a relation to your model, a trusty reliable emotional layer. If so, her only reaction will be a fine but whimsically smile. So it is now up to you to build a trusty relation with your model, emotional layer. Such is enabling you to shoot such picture with the “Boom Boom Boom” effect.

Details: Olympus E-5, Zuiko 50mm, ISO200, 1/200 second, f2.5. No strobe, nor reflector, no further tricks, just the light from the open window :)

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Actress …

Be bold