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Off topic / Re: с днем рождения / Happy Birthday Lev Dolgachov!
« : Февраля 14, 2008, 02:04:24 pm »
Happy birthday! May this year be one with many more covers, billboards and advertising campaigns. And may your heart be filled with peace and mind - pin sharp!

With all respect, Luba

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Off topic / Re: Show yourself
« : Февраля 14, 2008, 02:04:03 pm »


Is Mumrik your name or nickname? My friend and I head it as a nickname for each other when we were in college. Seing it again makes my heart long to happy days...

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Susan,

You just confirmed what I was afraid of all along! Sean asked me: what do I want to do while I am pregnant and when the baby is born? Right now, I think - nothing. Just play with the baby. All of our friends are 24-7 tied up with their new borns and all of them stopped working, at least for the first year.

I am taking off my hat before working mothers!

Shooting tomorrow an over 30s woman again. First time with her. Going to make some magic - briefed the make-up artist for funky make-up. Glam-glam. I like shooting ordinary women with just a bit of different make-up and then showing it to them and watch their reaction. Very rewarding.

One hubby told me that the pic I took of his wife is going to the grave with him. And the best part of it is that I leave most of the skin texture and fine lines, so I can tell the woman: its you, just with a bit better skin care routine, a bit more sleep and less kids.

And another hubby said: I can't believe her lips! And I did not touch the lips - its her natural form, just a good application of red lipstick.

Some women so shy, they don't even want to print photos of them alone, only if its with a hubby or a kid. Can you believe it? Sean spoiled me with my images, we had walls covered with my portraits, and one of them was my face, 1.5 meters high. People asked me how I feel about my own pic so big. Why should anything else be hanging on that wall?

My dream: every bedroom of every woman I shoot, has a life size shot of her, in the nuddies, for her hubby to see. And kids, and everybody that walks in. I am actually amazed, how many women actually long to be in front of the camera and never get a chance to show that side of them. And too shy to go to a photographer and ask for a glam shoot.

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Thank you very much!

About kids: I shot few shots of kids in the hospital and new-borns at home. I thought I would go crazy! I have so much respect for people that make a living out of baby photography! I honestly thought its easy  :-\

Besides the fact that you have to keep the whole body in and make sure nothing strange is cut off - parents are so sensitive to my tight crops - the baby keeps on moving in and out fo focus, and one second the hand is in - another - the whole body is out.

I was so tired after an hours shooting! Sean, my husband, just moved the lights behind my back all the time - because i was moving so much, I did not even think ab lighting. Great to have a pro photographer as your assistant!

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Цитировать
Но это мое скромное аматорское мнение, потому как на самом деле мне до вас и очень многих участников этого форума очень далеко  O0

Vsyakoe mnenie dlya menya vazhno, spasibo. Ko svoim kartinkam privykayu i uzhe ne zamechayu inogda, chto proisxodit.

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General discussion / Re: Anybody up for a race?
« : Декабря 31, 2007, 01:57:55 pm »
can't compete. going to teach for two months.

So you must really take your chances and get ahead. Because when I am back :)

Microstock is the first place I don't feel bad if somebody sells better - its just an encouragement to shoot and edit more!


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I do sports mostly. but the stockmarket is very limited I'd guess.

I think anything that you enjoy and therefore become good at will sell! Simply because your images will have more meaning and content.

I do lots of filler images and vectors, but what I am truly passionate about always sells better.

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I get excited about everything but end up editing only faces.

That's it - I think I like shooting faces. Older women - over 30 are my favourites at the moment. Much better attitude towards life, beautiful expressions, most of the times with less editing times than 17 year olds.

And I don't like full body shots at all.

If I had a choice of somebody shooting and me editing - I would love to do that as well :) But I am not allowed to edit Sean's pics. And I am not good enough to edit for another photographer.

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Photography / Re: What kind of research do you do before you travel?
« : Декабря 30, 2007, 02:51:52 pm »
I check when my passport expires :)

What will happen to us when Google crushes? I also do all my reasearch on Google.

I also check when is their tourist season - don't want to have too many people in my shots.

Any nice events: like carnavals, religious parades.

Cost of food per person per day, for us its quite an expense - and in Germany we could eat much cheaper than in France.

Before leaving for the country I run Google news for a while - don't want to end up in the middle of a political event or a metro strike, like London on New Years eve in 2005.

And shooting permissions: like in Europe we were told not to point cameras at kids, in Turkey we read we had to get special persmissions to shoot in certain places, and in Muslim-African countries you need to ask the person if you can shoot them as part of a background shot.

In South AFrica you just don't take out your camera when you are alone :)

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Photography / Re: Working with a model
« : Декабря 30, 2007, 02:42:27 pm »
Even district related haha since we start almost every encounter with three kisses for the model and three kisses for the MUA.
Frenk

I thought you are french (I was amazed at their ability to kiss everyone when we were in France), now I see you speak Dutch  ;)

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Dolgachev - v Presidenty :)

Progolosovala.

Ochen' simpatichnaya vasha fotka.

I mne osobenno nravitsya chast' pro: Do you risk sacrificing art?

Vy etot link na English site tozhe opublikovali? Sean naprimer pro nego ne znaet :(

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Photography / Re: Working with a model
« : Декабря 30, 2007, 02:23:45 pm »
About the whole stay with the model - touch model thing:

Its sad that physical touch became grounds of manipulation. I was not aware of this when living in Ukraine, but once we came to RSA, I saw how many people misuse the small, silly touch and use it to damage the life of the "toucher".

So now we watch each others backs and never ever leave the other person (Sean, my husband) with oposite sex model. Although my testimony in court will not stand, as I am the wife, at least I can still be a witness.

And different things work for different people - Lev has his very strong shooting style with awesome results, and the models most probably speak to each other and discuss his shooting style, don't they? So they know how it will work, and I am sure we can see from Lev's established integrity that he can make anybody feel comfortable - you can also see it in his models eyes.

Our models enjoy the fact that they will not be touched (repeatedly used models), maybe because so far the commercial type of modelling is not developed in South Africa and this kind of models are seen as just a pretty face and a bum, and sometimes they tell hair raising stories of what happens at the shoots.

So girls end up bringing mothers and boyfriends to all their shoots, or a gang of girls. Its very hard now to establish a different image of photographer and we get to work extra hard.


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Photography / Re: Working with a model
« : Декабря 30, 2007, 02:02:28 pm »
Can we please go back to the original posters question:

You know, it's always hard to begin process of shooting a model, no matter if you working with your friend or if it is the first session with a new model. From case to case, the first dozens in session (or even all the pics) are coming with scared, closed, unnatural emotions. Do you know some tips or recommendations how to relax people under focused lense?

One of such relaxant is to setup your AF-mode for AI Servo and to ask your model to spin as fast as he/she can . Then -- start shooting  ;) I've tested this for several times -- and it is working..

I'm sure it is not the only trick, isn't it?   ::)

 

I started doing test shoots - it helps me to get to know the model before I hire her for a job with a make-up and styling. I explain to a model that in the test shoot she gets to see how we work, how she works, test lights against her skin.

Meanwhile, we make lost of jokes, have very nice coffee, ask all kind of silly questions. Usually a test shoot ends up being a great shoot with good iamges for sale.

Test shoots are strictly TFC. And not longer than an hour. I see with non-professional models they cannot actually perform for longer than an hour (or I cannot get them to do so), so I rather schedule another shoot than try and squeeze all my ideas in one.

Before time I speak a lot with models about stock and my shooting style. I discuss everything I want to do, and then, just like Lev, I wait for the model to start breaking the brief. But first I want to see how the model will react to my direction - I do not have such a strong personality as Lev and need to put quite a bit of guidelines so that the model does not run away with my shoot.

Personal preference: I try to keep the atmosphere in the studio free from sexual compliments and swearwords. We work with a lot of different stylists and make-up artists and I want to make sure that we can all work at ease with each other, in a balanced, professional way. You never know who takes offence at what.

And best of all my realxing methods is - my great assistant - Sean! He is a stand-up comedian by nature and can make anyone feel at ease.

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Спасибо, нужно будет потренироватся!

А почему вы еще не спите?

Я вот немного еше потренировалась. Вроде бы больше цвета, но все равно не хравится.

А может у меня к концу года притупились артистические навыки?  :'( :'( :'(

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Я думаю, что я не правильно обьяснилась:

мой экран калибрирован
мой цвет мне все равно не нравится
с моего "designer" опыта, я помню, что когда делаешь перемену на "CMYK", то цвет существенно меняется. И что очень привлекательно выглядит на экране не всегда правильно печатается.

Я слышала, что Getty проверяет цвет на правильность разделения для печати. Правда или нет, но хотелось бы добиться хороших цветов, которые печатаются в CMYK так же хорошо как и выглядят в RGB.

Спасибочки огромное всем, кто в ето предпраздничное время заглянул на мой вопрос и ответил!

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