Thank you very much, Bulent, for this appreciation and critique! An interesting coincidence to me that you feel fragility in the figure in nude study. She was 3 or 4 months pregnant when we shot, and beginning to show.
I was very much aiming for a painterly look in that too. I arranged all the background elements, and chose a high ISO and wide-open aperture for softness. BTW, I failed to mention that I did all post-processing in Lightroom. Mosty minor slider tweaks. Bulent wrote: > > Bruce, > I liked both for different reasons. > The first is an elegant, light, high key image which requires far too > much knowledge&skill to shoot this good. > The viewer has to catch the "flying" figure before she leaves the frame... > Ethereal is the word that comes to my mind. > The second, which appeals to me more, is like a painting. Can be oil > or even watercolor. > The composition is that of a perfect combination of static/rigid > elements (rectangles) and beautifully dynamic, curving figure. > I can imagine the painter looking at this one finally and saying, "done!". > The figure is certainly not flying but is not heavy either. The > dominant feeling is, to me, fragility. > Thank you very much for producing these and sharing them with us. > Bulent > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://patoloji.gen.tr > http://celasun.wordpress.com/ > http://www.flickr.com/photos/bc_the_path/ > http://photo.net/photodb/user?user_id=2226822 > http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/artists/bulentcelasun > Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at gmail.com>, 6 Şub 2020 Per, 13:30 tarihinde > şunu yazdı: > > > > Thank you very much, Doug. > > > > > You already know I love that shot of Phylactere, and the other one, of > > > Olivia, is a stunner. > > > Sent from my phone, which I’m staring at instead of doing actual work. > > > > On Feb 5, 2020, at 8:12 PM, Bruce Walker <bruce.walker at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Two shots that I consider to be personal bests. The first is from 2 > > > > weeks ago and the second is from the middle of December, 2019. > > > > > > > > might as well jump > > > > https://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/I0000l3.o3EjAXlU > > > > > > > > nude study with Phylactere > > > > https://portfolio.brucemwalker.com/index/I00009Ve8hGlONT0 > > > > > > > > > > > > Both shot with the 645Z and the 55mm f:2.8 SDM lens. Each was lit by a > > > > single light source. > > > > > > > > The first was lit by an 8 inch hard silver reflector aimed though a > > > > 3/4-stop 8x8 foot scrim, above-right. > > > > 55mm/2.8 at f/8, 1/125th sec, ISO 100; handheld. > > > > > > > > The second was lit by ambient window light, left. > > > > 55mm/2.8 at f/2.8, 1/30th sec, ISO 1600; handheld. > > > > > > > > Model 1 is Olivia Preston, Playboy Cybergirl of the Year 2018. > > > > Model 2 is Phylactere Rayna, a fine arts lecturer at the University of > > > > Montreal, model, yoga instructor, dancer, photographer. > > > > > > > > Enjoy! > > > > > > > > -- > > > > -bmw > > > > > > > > -- > > > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > > > PDML at pdml.net > > > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > > follow the directions. > > > > > > > -- > > -bmw > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > PDML at pdml.net > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
