Monika - smiling sun. We haven't seen each other for a while and her familiy came over for a barbecue. So they where not aware that someone had to volunteer as a model :-) I pressed Monika a bit and
her husband immediately gave advice how to pose, I guess he knows the beautiful sides of Monika better than anybody else.
Monika likes to take pictures herself and said, that she always laughs on photographs. That seems to be quit true - and that makes it nice to be around you, because a sympathetic laugh is like a little sunshine. Thank you for stepping in.
Light: 530EX in a 60cm softbox on axis from above the head, 1/2 power, 24mm, 1/2 CTS, SB26 on axis through a white shootthrough umbrella from waisthigh, 1/4 power, 35mm, SB 26 from 11 o'clock as hairlight, 85mm, 1/8 power,
all Skyported
6.7.11
5.7.11
Not even children on the playground. So I portraid this sad little horse feeling lonely.
Joan Baez: Where have all the children gone...
LIght: 430EX at 1/2 Power, 105mm Zoom, handheld and triggerd by me because I had no lightstand and tripod with me.
I think I flashed it 2 times after the Camera went of with a selftimer - look at the heads shadow
4.7.11
Wow, funny day today. Can't get a decission made, no matter what. Not during work, nor creativ wise. I was sitting on my office stairs waiting for a vicitm - and nobody useable passed:-) So I took this shot out fooling araound with my camera and thought, there would be more to come later at night - and then things turned out different and this was more or less what i had. So I made it a challenge to make something out of it - and therefor got to dig into Niks Color Effex pro more than before. So this is the shot of a day, boring street with BMW.
Light: AL
3.7.11
I crossed the middle of 365 days a half a day ago. Proud of myself? Yep!
I hat alot of nice stranger and nonstranger models, fun, stress and nights beeing tired but with a goal in my head. And the feeling, that I am getting more and mor confi with my gear, dealing with it day after day. There is more to come, of which you might get a hint out of todays model: Dynamic fotodundee climping over every obstacle.
There is africa to come soon (see the shirt - I don't know if what will happen to the blog / flickrstream during my trip), craftmans work (the shoes), weather (the hat), gear (the backpack and the tripd case), movement (the jump) and lights (3 Strobes and the sun) - and don't forget million of details, like the remote controle in my left hand (which sets of a 2 sec delay picture and made me jump 25 times or so...) - lol - lots of fun and learning opportunities to come. I learnt, that creativ cluelessness turns around, if you embrace it.
Light: Don't ask where they are...
SB26 bare at 1/4 from behind, 50mm, to enlight the Backpack, SB26 at 1/2 power, 24mm through umbrella, 580EX in Flash2softbox 50x70cm at 24mm, 1/1power -0.7ev, skyports, sun from left upper corner
2.7.11
Zoo at night - we just returned, everybody tired, alot of people and freaks with big lenses and tripods and stuff.
Actutally I wanted to make a shot McNally once did - crocodile eyes glowing in the dark - but flashes where not allowed. So I'll take this rhino for today - sometimes it helps to have thick skin, specially if you are a parent and the children have to get used to vacation.
LIght: Sunset / dawn (AL)
1.7.11
Call with SUNSET - not only for teens and twens.
There is a telecom company here called sunrise (www.sunrise.ch) - and I tryed to pic up their look - but including the often excluded - elderly people. This is my mother in law Vera, who spontaniously jumped in as a model while beeing disturbed gardening by me. "I have never modelled in my life" she said and then posed like she had done this her entire life. Thank you, Vera.
AL: Sun behind her head in the evening
30.6.11
Water - pooring in. This picture was not converted to b/w, this is the colored picture. The bowl is black. I was rather surprised by the whitness of the main stream.
Light: Two Sb26, 1/64 power optical triggered by 7D flash (down at 1/128), comming in from 9 and 1 o'clock.