AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

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AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:36 am

My first shoot with AJ... but definitely not my last...

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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby Raskill on Tue Apr 13, 2010 11:39 am

Nice. I like the contrast between model and grafitti. I helped a friend do a shoot with the same concept some time back for Ralph magazine. Where was the location?
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:19 pm

Raskill wrote:Nice. I like the contrast between model and grafitti. I helped a friend do a shoot with the same concept some time back for Ralph magazine. Where was the location?


Thanks Raskill... It was at a WW2 bunker in Malabar. A very well used photographic location, but each time, the grafitti is different, so you're never quite sure what you're gonna get... By pure coincidence, the colour scheme matched the jewellery I'd brought along :-)
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby biggerry on Tue Apr 13, 2010 8:21 pm

between model and grafitti

:agree:

however the chosen poses of the model really make this interaction work, they fill the frame but still capture some good graf. nice shots John.
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:09 am

biggerry wrote:
between model and grafitti

:agree:

however the chosen poses of the model really make this interaction work, they fill the frame but still capture some good graf. nice shots John.


Thanks Gerry... glad you liked them...
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby sirhc55 on Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:00 pm

Artistic, creative, great lighting - overall excellent.
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby surenj on Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:12 pm

biggerry wrote: between model and grafitti
however the chosen poses of the model really make this interaction work, they fill the frame but still capture some good graf. nice shots John.


:agree: These are artfully done.

John, I can see the quality of you work is going up from an already high quality baseline! :cheers:
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Re: AJ (Slightly NSFW)

Postby Ant on Thu Apr 15, 2010 6:30 pm

I really like these, except I find the position of her front foot in the second one a little off putting, seems a little unnatural to me.
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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:02 am

A few more...

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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby heartyfisher on Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:31 am

cute model. #3(edit : I meant #5) is a stunner good work john!
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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby biggerry on Fri Apr 16, 2010 2:49 pm

John, the final one in the second batch is very nice, I like that pose and I reckon the leg position is neat. However the first two I think need some more work.

#1, the dynamic skin smoother or whatever software used to smooth the skin has gone a bit crazy here, the edges of her arm also look strange, I think the pose works but the fact that you cannot see her underwear (lower) is a bit strange in this case, I think being able to see it would have been better..

#2 the only real gripe about this one is the way the image looks with regard to teh face/head size in relation to the body size.. the head 'looks' a bit big...

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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Sat Apr 17, 2010 11:40 am

biggerry wrote:#1, the dynamic skin smoother or whatever software used to smooth the skin has gone a bit crazy here, the edges of her arm also look strange, I think the pose works but the fact that you cannot see her underwear (lower) is a bit strange in this case, I think being able to see it would have been better..

you might be right... there is a bit of a halo... I'll have another go at it... Oh - and she wasn't wearing any underwear - that's why you can't see it :-)
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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby gstark on Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:05 pm

leek wrote:.. there is a bit of a halo...)


a bit of a halo? Hell, that one is so oversharpened I just cut my finger and there's now blood all over the keyboard! :)

Yes, John, pull back on the sharpening a little on this one, if you could.
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Re: AJ - Images added (Slightly NSFW)

Postby leek on Sun Apr 18, 2010 1:27 pm

gstark wrote:
leek wrote:.. there is a bit of a halo...)


a bit of a halo? Hell, that one is so oversharpened I just cut my finger and there's now blood all over the keyboard! :)

Yes, John, pull back on the sharpening a little on this one, if you could.


Hahah... what were you doing with your fingers there Gary :-)

Actually gerry was right... it wasn't sharpening, but my skin smoothing routine that did it... She doesn't need skin smoothing anyway :-) - Now fixed...
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