The red haired girl for me as well. What's not to like about the combination of fair skin, red hair, flowers as hair do and twisted horns to to top it all?
Agree colours are not on the softer side but their rendition certainly helps bring out the subjects in all splendour, intended or not.
Some of these girls will face a substantial task later removing all the make-up ...
Thanks for your kind words, coming from you I value them very much
The several reactions made me contemplate on why (with regards to the processing) I do what I do
To begin with, when I started photography way back when, I was always out to push my (B&W) films to the outer limits, and sometimes beyond, of their sensitivity (FP4 at 30 DIN, TriX at 33 or 36 DIN, and the likes)
Obviously that also came with high contrast negatives, and that combined with Agfa Record Rapid in Tetenal Eukobrom in similarly high contrast prints (when shooting color I preferred slide film printed on Cibachromes, when I had the money), something I still prefer in my BW and color images
Another great influence was the 1967 film 'Elvira Madigan' by Bo Widerberg, with the IMO after all these years still astonishing cinematography by Jorgen Persson.
I won't get into the details of the film, but the way the light in some scenes filters through the leaves of the trees
http://www.famousfix.com/post/elvira-madigan-18787929/p623974?view=large is a thing that I have since tried to in some way emulate when the opportunity arose
And finally the films, the visually overpowering photography, and in particular colors of the socalled 5th generation of Chinese filmmakers, and in particular Zhang Zimou, with 'Hero' and 'House of Flying daggers' (the scenes in the bamboo forest) are a major major influence on the way I want to 'see' the colors in my 'fantasy' photo's.
So there is some sense amid the madness
