Male model in front of angular building

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Male model in front of angular building

Postby Willy wombat on Sat May 08, 2010 11:39 pm

Sharing three from a shoot I did today.

I have always thought this building would make an interesting backdrop for a shoot and after a phone call today with this model I had my opportunity to put my vision into action.

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2. (is there too much magenta in this image?)
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3. B+W presentation
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby aim54x on Sun May 09, 2010 12:33 am

Looks really good, the colours of the metal and the sky really work with the red and black of the clothes!
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby PiroStitch on Sun May 09, 2010 4:03 am

The first one is great with the angles in his body reflecting the architecture, same goes with the second one though not sure about that collar.

ACCA is certainly a great backdrop to use
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby Willy wombat on Sun May 09, 2010 11:03 pm

PiroStitch wrote:The first one is great with the angles in his body reflecting the architecture, same goes with the second one though not sure about that collar.

ACCA is certainly a great backdrop to use


Hard to stop these young kids of today from popping their collars. Pop!!
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby PiroStitch on Sun May 09, 2010 11:19 pm

Tell 'em they're as cool as Elvis :P
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby Oz_Beachside on Mon May 10, 2010 9:37 pm

Great stuff steve, strong lines shapes and pose suit a male subject well.
I wish I was shooting outside more this yeah, hopefully more post June.
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby marcotrov on Mon May 10, 2010 10:03 pm

KISS principle applied to great effect. Striking images, Steve. :)
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby biggerry on Mon May 10, 2010 11:28 pm

Very nice concept, the backdrop is quite clever too, I do not go much on the rust colour, however that is more my preference then anything else.

I like the poses, however keep coming back wondering what he is looking at? or if he should be looking at something? thoughts?

BW would be something I would go with here, however given that seriously loud red shirt, it would be a crime to hide it :rotfl2:

nice stuff and great to see some thing different and some male models.
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby Willy wombat on Tue May 11, 2010 1:36 pm

Oz_Beachside wrote:Great stuff steve, strong lines shapes and pose suit a male subject well.
I wish I was shooting outside more this yeah, hopefully more post June.


We need to collaborate on a project Bruce.

How did your outdoor parachute idea pan out? Sorry I wasnt available to help out, but now post wedding and honeymoon im looking to reconnect with my inner photographer
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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby Willy wombat on Tue May 11, 2010 1:42 pm

biggerry wrote:I like the poses, however keep coming back wondering what he is looking at? or if he should be looking at something? thoughts?

BW would be something I would go with here, however given that seriously loud red shirt, it would be a crime to hide it :rotfl2:


I was initially getting him to shoot looking straight at the camera but the sunglasses wernt giving me the eye contact I was after so I let him look all around the place. It was too bright to avoid the sunnies. Perhaps he was looking for an aloof, im too cool to look at you type thing. But I definately think that it deminishes the contact between the model and the viewer.

I got better contact at the follow up shoot I did at a second location

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The shirt - yes vibrant and vivid!! - he also had a bright blue shirt but it just wouldnt have worked with the blue sky.

biggerry wrote:
nice stuff and great to see some thing different and some male models.


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Re: Male model in front of angular building

Postby biggerry on Tue May 11, 2010 2:21 pm

I got better contact at the follow up shoot I did at a second location


That one I really like, great lighting and also a compilmentary BG, very nice..

We need more female members!!


you have to get this bloke shirtless at the very least to get them :rotfl2:
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