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Images => People, Portraits, Street, PJ & Cityscapes => Topic started by: elsa hoffmann on January 26, 2017, 18:27:50
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Interference Disturbed The dark side for my pleasure
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It has been my pleasure too.
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In an excellent series, two images stand out: the saxophone player, and the lamp shade. Kudos.
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I like the second one and the one with the telephone, also the blue accents.
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Frankly I don't like the way the model holds the saxophone: its not properly held, which detracts the otherwise excellent image.
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Elsa, these are stunning!
Mrs A agrees.
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In an excellent series, two images stand out: the saxophone player, and the lamp shade. Kudos.
Same here, and I love blue hair.
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Excellent very well done, creative, and fantastic lights
Seems all have some effect added in PP ? maybe not the lamp image
My fav is where she is laying down on the coach
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Thank you everyone for looking.
Akira - fully agreed. But then if you know squat about a sax - you end up with an image looking like this :) You must know - I hardly knew how to put the sax together - it comes in pieces :)
Armando - correct - backgrounds heavily so - Even the lampshade's background was edited. I am currently specifically concentrating on backgrounds.
I hardly touched the model - here and there I did skin smoothing to make her face blend in better as high contrast lighting does highlight little bumps.
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Great series Elsa. All very creative. I like the sax most ;)
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My pleasure as well.
I enjoy your playful mood with the pp. The lighting is very effective. The relationship with the model stands out as well.
I have to point out the body language in the second image, add the play with color and textures with the hair, composition adding movement to the frame and the overall look and it works very well for me. My favorite of the lot
Third one with the phone have also an extra something in the body language department. The call becomes natural and very femenine. Also enjoyed the overlay.
The lamp post stand out. Funny, strongly symbolic, great use of the body, prop, lights...etc. I miss a little more evenly light in the feet but maybe, if done so, I will say the opposite -I just spend that much time looking at the images-. My other favorite of the lot :)
Beautiful model too!
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Thank you John and Golunvolo!
Golunvolo - I fully agree - it is exactly how I feel about the light on the legs and feet. The only reason why I did decide to go with this image - is the pose of the legs. Light was better on the others - but legs here were better. Catch 22.
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Wow, what a series!! I very much like her poses in shot no. 2 and 3. And I love how her blue hair makes the somewhat more conventional shot in no. 7 unconventional again. :) I also really like the last one – I do miss her funky hair in that one, though. ;)
Really, really cool. If I had to pick a favorite, it would probably be no. 3.
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Thank you so much for looking and commenting smusesuse :) :)
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Akira - fully agreed. But then if you know squat about a sax - you end up with an image looking like this :) You must know - I hardly knew how to put the sax together - it comes in pieces :)
Elsa, I'm not going to preach Buddha, but if you would use a camera as a prop, and the mode would hold it in an awkward way, you would share my feelings... It would have been better you would have used some more abstract objet. On the contrary, the way the model handls the telephone looks just fitting to the image!
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Elsa, I'm not going to preach Buddha, but if you would use a camera as a prop, and the mode would hold it in an awkward way, you would share my feelings... It would have been better you would have used some more abstract objet. On the contrary, the way the model handls the telephone looks just fitting to the image!
Akira dearest - every woman knows how to hold a telephone :)
please help - since I will be using the sax again - what do I do?
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Akira dearest - every woman knows how to hold a telephone :)
please help - since I will be using the sax again - what do I do?
Good for the telephones!
To get familiar with the way the saxophone is held or handled, you may want to look at the pictures or videos of real saxophone players. As for the female saxophone player, one of the most famous would be Candy Dulfer.
Even when they are just carrying, not necessarily playing, the instruments, there are certain common ways to hold them.
In your image #4, the saxophone is held almost in a playing position. What is awkward in this case is that none of her fingers are put on the correct keys. You should see round concave thingies on some keys, and that's where the fingers should be placed. Also, a saxophone is supposed to come with a protective cap for the mouthpiece. It would be better to take it off basically in any situation settings. In your image, I don't clearly see whether the cover is removed or not.
The image with the telephone is so lovely that I keep coming back. (ABSOLUTELY NO PUN INTENDED!)
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Akira - the cover was probably still on! I will for sure follow your advise - thank you
Re the telephone - it's kind of you to say :)
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An outstanding set of photos. But #6 is really, really nice. Great stuff.
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Thank you Rick - much appreciated
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Awesome stuff!
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Thank you kindly Fons
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Very impressive series, Elsa. Especially the lighting is striking.
Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you Peter :)
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Great artistry, imagination, taste, innovative look. Applause.
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Thank you Elsid for looking and commenting.