We finally got together and did the shoot. It was fantastic. Loved every minute of it. From make-up, hair, to dress-up and posing. Felt great to see all the work come together and all three of us had a great time, although from my perspective it went by too fast .
I also got to put through it's paces my new flashy, cheapy but goody although lonely studio flash. Hopefully it won't be lonely for too long, I kinda felt the need for a second source.
All's well though, pretty happy to be making stuff happen again.

the results here: [link]
let me know what ya think.


Bo

Tomorrow will be a big day for me. I've been preparing this shoot for some time now, and I can't wait to shoot again. This time I took a different approach to doing things, and I'm curious to see if "not overthinking" it works out.
Took a while to prepare because there will be some hand made stuff that I needed. Mostly cardboard and paper.

Interested yet?
Stay close, I'll probably post again sooooooon.

Saturday is over. So is Sunday for that matter, but Saturday was the exhibition. It went so cool and chill and great, there were a lot of great pictures, interesting documentaries were screened, the place was fantastic, Orange Concept Store rules .

To keep a long story short, I was fortunate enough to be awarded the third place, sooo happy about that. The jury was wonderful I briefly spoke to each one of them after the ceremony and they all were polite enough to say it was a difficult decision to make because of all the wonderful work submitted. There were 27 cotestants all very different and wonderful in their own way (photography-wise).
More info here:
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So that is it. I was and still am very glad my work is appreciated not only by friends and family. It gives me the confidence I needed to go on .

I hope for more and better things to come.

Thanks!

So I thought of doing something more for the exhibition coming up. I had all these other images I did not use for the actual prints, and wanted to make good use of them somehow. So I decided to make a little movie clip to showcase the idea and promote my images. The location of the exhibition is a good one for presenting multimedia stuff, with lots of screens and stuff, so I'm told.
So I chose a soundtrack that I thought was a good support for my concept, and went along with editing in Premiere. It was my first "encounter" with film editing and with premier, and I think it turned out great. So do other people if I may say, leaving modesty aside.

I hope it's okay for me to post the link here, since it is related to a series of photographs of mine.
The photos: [link]
The movie clip: [link]

Looking forward to the exhibition and your feedback

So yeah, we got to do the shoot on Sunday. It turned out great. And best of all, all of us had a great time, including the model - poor thing.
I had no idea what we would find, so I was a bit nervous hoping the building would fit my idea. And we got there, at the outskirts of a village, pretty well secluded, easy access and everything. There was a sign saying something about a slaughterhouse. yay, I thought. At first I was kind of scared to walk in, because of all the refrigerated dark rooms with thick insulating doors and the darkness, but soon we set up camp like it was nothing.
So first we prepared the model (our good friend cris) and then started setting everything up. Lighting was pretty good, and I had my trustworthy SB 600 and a reflecting circle (dunno the proper name - you get it) to work with.
Started shooting and moving the model from place to place because bound as she was, she could not even scratch her nose itches.
I had a pretty detailed plan on how and what to shoot with sketched shooting board and everything. Did what I went for, some things turned out better than expected, others not so much so.
Loved the experience though it was good shooting again.
After leaving the site, the model told us she had quite an interesting time. Not only was she tired from all the physical work, but the experience of being helpless like that and having to rely on someone else for simple things like smoking, scratching and moving was thought provoking.

I used some of godsign's textures ( [link] ) - thank you, great stuff.

I haven't uploaded anything until now because I needed the time to edit and prep them the exhibition and deviantart. I was a bit frustrated when switching from a potent color profile to sRGB, but I think I got pretty close to the 16bit version for ya'll to enjoy.

So enjoy!

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