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KGB Officer

kweide — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 18:30:58 +0000

The session we had today was real a fun session. Giggling, laughter and joking around. We had some accessories at the start. A Batman mask, a wonderful cap of soft black fur and two other sweet hats. But it turned out that the fur cap was the real thing and she did quite well with that black thing on her head. I assume it was because the warming effect of fur :). Just sitting in the corner of the red sofa, with that cap on the head is not that tricky. Do you really think so ? Oh no. It is not as easy you might think.

Keep the head in the right position, don´t move the body too much or that cap will glide and fall down. Result: The scene is gone, the expression lost, the pose ruined. So it was indeed hard work even when it looks now different. Okay, it was fun too :) Als always. So is she a KGB Officer or is just because winter is coming ?? What do you think ?
Olympus E-M1 + M.Zuiko 75 @ f1.8

Winterromance

kweide — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:23:17 +0000

When we traveled to Zingst we drove thru an amazing landscape. WInter was still there and active. Snow and ice all over the the land, covering everything, building a mystical atmosphere where only the trees shined thru.

Olympus E-M5, Summilux @ f1.4, ISO200, 1/4000 second

What a difference …

kweide — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:11:01 +0000

What a difference a jacket makes. A simple thing. Easy. Ask for her winterjacket, ask her to use it on her skin and ask for slightly opened zipper.

Such wonderful view, a modified boys view. Thats what the Boom Boom effect is about. Such pictures are only possible with established emotional layer, with trust ! To give a special touch, a special look i added some secret juice to it. Addition layer, converted to B&W, added grain to it and set the opacity to about 85%…. easy. You can do such as well with your GIMP or similar PP software. Try it !

Fur

kweide — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:17:53 +0000

It is said that diamonds are a girls best friend. And yes, that might be true. But is it affordable for us ?? For a shooting ?? Don´t think so. But as far as i know girls like FUR as well and here we have enough material to work with. No, not the neighbors cat around the neck… way too risky. She could kill the cat while bending it around the tack :) Well a simple fur of a winter jacket will do the job very well.

I gave one of this jackets to her and you can see what she had done with it. She created an instant storyboard and executed the selfmade hide away story. I like that much and did the shoots without any instructions.

To give structure to the fur keep the light coming from the side and above. It adds great structures to her face too. Keep the focus to her nearest eye !!!

All shots done with Olympus E-5, Zuiko 12-60 SWD, 1/60 second, f3.2 and one single flash bounced to my left and over my shoulder into a white reflector…