Model Shoot - Belinda Chapple

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Model Shoot - Belinda Chapple

Postby Cre8tivepixels on Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:10 pm

Had the pleasure of working with Belinda recently....awesome shoot and the consummate professional....awesome girl too :)

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Postby Alex on Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:26 pm

Dan,

I love the way No. 1 is lit and how the colour of light compliments her outfit. Love the natural feel of No. 3 and the tones.

I can see that your style evolves and you diversify in your experimentation. Well done!

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Postby wendellt on Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:38 pm

i thiunk this is your best work
she looks at easy and youve captured her at her essence
tones and lighting is all god too

excellent work

she must be extremely happy

i liek the 3rd one most and the closup with the crystal

sorry i couldnt be there ive been very occupied
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Sun Dec 23, 2007 2:05 pm

wendellt wrote:i thiunk this is your best work
she looks at easy and youve captured her at her essence
tones and lighting is all god too

excellent work

she must be extremely happy

i liek the 3rd one most and the closup with the crystal

sorry i couldnt be there ive been very occupied


No worries, i didn't hassle you as i knew you where busy, and how am i to learn if i don't throw myself in the deep end.....thanks for the chat and i will definitely pay for your expertise early next year :)
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Postby Oz_Beachside on Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:30 pm

Dan, you have stepped up to the next league, bloody brilliant, love em!
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Postby blacknstormy on Sun Dec 23, 2007 4:47 pm

I love the last one - a lot of your stuff isn't 'my kind of thing', but these I really like :)
Well done :)
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Postby michael_ on Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:35 pm

is that the same belinda who was in bardot?

i really like #4, actually i like them all
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:40 pm

michael_ wrote:is that the same belinda who was in bardot?

i really like #4, actually i like them all


yeah mate it is......thanks for the comments :)
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Postby Big V on Sun Dec 23, 2007 5:54 pm

Dan, I think this is your strongest set yet and it is further helped by the less intrusive watermark, now the subject dominates our attention and our eye is not drawn to the watermark - well done!
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Postby Cre8tivepixels on Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:01 pm

Big V wrote: it is further helped by the less intrusive watermark, now the subject dominates our attention and our eye is not drawn to the watermark - well done!


Hey mate......yes i had a good chat Belinda amongst others an i want to seperate some of the classier stuff i do from the not so classier stuff.....so i will be seperating ME from Cre8tive Pixels....using Pixels as an agency and and organizing stronger higher quality/fashion shoots including weddings under my name Danial Gowans, i have an identity crisis.......lol

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Postby who on Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:03 pm

Firstly great pics, I really like the feel of the first with all the colour, vivid light and the "sparkle beams" that cross her eye and cheek.....

And the last is nice too. The others aren't as satisfying for my subjective consideration.

Cre8tivepixels wrote:Hey mate......yes i had a good chat Belinda amongst others an i want to seperate some of the classier stuff i do from the not so classier stuff.....so i will be seperating ME from Cre8tive Pixels....using Pixels as an agency and and organizing stronger higher quality/fashion shoots including weddings under my name Danial Gowans, i have an identity crisis.......lol

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Great idea.... you will just have to be careful where the line is..... as I would have put say #2 more with your older works.... That will be the challenge.
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Postby marcotrov on Sun Dec 23, 2007 9:56 pm

You most certainly have stepped a gear here Dan and I know this is what might be called a classy series of images but your work here is excellent. The third image is elegantly done with a great sensitivity created through excellent composition and tonal treatment. If I would change anything it would be the slight metalic look of her left hand which i find a little distracting. Small criticism though :)
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Postby Geoff on Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:21 pm

Great work Dan, I too think this is some of your best work thus far!
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Postby Onyx on Sun Dec 23, 2007 11:38 pm

Excellent modelling stuff as the norm Dan. I also like to commend you on the use of a much less invasive watermark. Your previous one was horrendously overbearing.
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Postby broadbean on Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:19 am

The first pic (at least for me) has about four lines on it that look like scratches which seem distracting - one is at an angle and cuts across Belinda's left eye. Was that deliberate?

Otherwise, I have nothing more to add as I'd just be echoing everyone else here!
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Postby Kyle on Mon Dec 24, 2007 12:25 am

Despite all the BS in the past, your photos jut keep getting better and better.

I applaud thee :D

Love the eye contact in the 5th :!:
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