Using a flash under sunlight environment.

Desaturating with lightroom.

She’s cute ^^;

Fisheye 16mm Nikkor.

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Just in the middle of such a tech environment, I found her in the darkness illuminated only by the light of projectors and mobile screens. Geek girls are also cute :)

Requirements

I’m looking for beginners or amateur models that would love to pose in front of a camera. Age (+18), Ethnicity, Language and Gender are not a problem. Professionals are also welcome but please read about the payment and benefits at the end.
If you want to learn how to pose or you want to get used to be in front of a camera, I will love to help you in this process as well.

What kind of photography?

I’m not fixed with a concrete style. I like creativity and I love to hear from you, about your ideas as well. This is not a lonely-photographer game. This is a team work, the photographer and the model are a combo, that work together to express in the photography their feelings and their creativity. If you desire to play a particular role, to dress in a particular way or if you always dreamed about posing for a concrete kind of pictures, just let me know. I will love to listen about your project and work together to achieve it.
If you lack of ideas, don’t worry I have a lot of them :)
The kind of photography I’m looking for is:

• Portraits
• Fashion
• Make up
• Urban
• Cosplay
• Art nude (Check details at the end of this post)

Payment and benefits

I prefer to avoid to use money, so I won’t pay you with money. Anyway I don’t discard this possibility, so drop me a line and let’s discuss about this.

I’m actually asking for a collaboration where we both have a benefit.

Common benefits and agreements:

• I will give you the pictures, printed or in a CD or any other medium that you prefer. Of course in full resolution. This is also called: TFCD/P (time for CD/Print)
• The pictures will have a small watermark, linking to this site in the bottom.
• You are totally free to use those pictures for your own book, blog, web site, whatever.
• In a normal photoshot I can shot hundreds of pictures. I will reserve to myself the right to choose and edit the final ones that I will deliver to you. I never upload full resolution pictures in this web site but of course I will give you the full resolution ones in the CD.
• If you have a blog or online book, I will link you from this blog helping you to promote your name and your site. I’ll do this from this blog, from flickr, from twitter and from facebook.
• I we do a good job, I will recommend you to other photographers that are interested in finding models.
• We can also be friends :-)
• If you want to learn how to pose and get used to be in front of a camera, I will help you in this process.
• You have to agree that your pictures will be posted in this web site and my portfolio.

Art nude details

Models have to be more than 18 years old.
Only females, sorry guys…
For nude photography I focus only in the artistic aspect.

You can contact me in many ways:

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These are the pictures I got that day. De-saturation and other post processing with Lightroom.

I like to leave some parts in color and black and white. The thing that I’m trying to achieve is to do it as it was natural. The meaning depending on the moment. I feel different sensations when I see color or monochrome images. This sensation, this feelings I want to show could be expressed using the color as a medium. What do you feel when you see images with unreal color or lights?

To obtain this picture the camera was set for long exposure of 3 seconds. I hold a flash in my hand, and Ashe was ready to move as soon after the flash shots.
So: shot, flash and run. In this way the background mixed with the image of her.

Let me know if you like to see images post processed in this way.

Which software do you use to edit your pictures?

A good friend of mine, @iMorpheus, asked me to write about how I took this portrait for his new group created in flickr, check it here.

It was a bar, it was dark, it was crowded, there was smoke in the air and I was sitting in a table, drank a few beers…
At that point the victim (Paul) was just in the right position in front of me and smoking. I had to shot a portrait!
In the bag I had a flash Sigma EF-500, Nikon D200 and a small white sheet plus a TTL cord to detach the flash from the camera to make it movable. @tangerinejp helped me putting the white sheet near Paul’s face, the flash settings were in manual at minimum power 1/64. The camera settings were f/3.2, 1/250, ISO 100 and white balance in flash mode. The rest of the job corresponds to the model, he really played the role and that’s one of the most important things. That’s why although the conditions might be bad or the equipment might be poor, if the model knows how to behave in front of the camera, and knows how to transmit a feeling, the rest is just a right shot!

Here we have @tangerinejp posing as an innocent kitten ^^;