A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

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A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby gstark on Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:45 am

First of all, a big thank you to Jeremy for the use of his 66 Mustang. She was a most co-operative and willing model. No complaints about maintaining a pose, no whining about the cold ... a truly beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s.

Despite the fact that I chose the venue, I think it was pretty bloody good. No background distractions, dark - darker than I expected, because of (I think) a new moon. I need to verify that .... Lots of room to move back or forwards or around the car ...

And lots of good people with whom to share the evening. I hope that everyone enjoyed the evening as much as I did.

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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby aim54x on Thu Aug 20, 2009 12:20 pm

She was an absolutely gorgeous lady!!!

Great shots there Gary, I like the concept of the first....maybe if we lined up the softboxes to make it look like a battery of flood lights?

The second looks a bit underexposed to me, but concept of the third is very nice
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby surenj on Thu Aug 20, 2009 1:54 pm

Nice train chasing car sort of shot in #3. I reckon you can further improve that by putting a scared looking driver in the seat!

The first image is a great concept. I have seen one photo where someone walked around and flashed his car multiple times to make it look like a wall of light bulbs (with a twinkle because of his high aperture)
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby jlewis on Thu Aug 20, 2009 2:47 pm

Gary,

I will let her know of your appreciation. Nice pics indeed.
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby biggerry on Thu Aug 20, 2009 3:06 pm

Despite the fact that I chose the venue, I think it was pretty bloody good. No background distractions, dark - darker than I expected


Hat's off to ya! that was one premo position, we even got a look in from the local fuzz... :cheers:

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and I am sure she would give some of young lass' a good run for their money :up:

I really love the first image, really looks like the old girl going down the catwalk!
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby Glen on Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:24 pm

Gary, you must have a cast of thousands holding all your softboxes in the first image!
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby gstark on Thu Aug 20, 2009 8:53 pm

Glen wrote:Gary, you must have a cast of thousands holding all your softboxes in the first image!


Nah ... just kept on cloning the softbox in post. No, not really.

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Despite the fact that I chose the venue, I think it was pretty bloody good. No background distractions, dark - darker than I expected


Hat's off to ya! that was one premo position, we even got a look in from the local fuzz... :cheers:


Thanx. It WAS a new moon too, btw. And no, it wouldn't have been the same without a visit from the local constabulary.
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby surenj on Thu Aug 20, 2009 10:55 pm

gstark wrote:a visit from the local constabulary.


I didn't even know that blues were around! I almost got run over by them and only knew when someone mentioned later! I think I was concentrating on getting that sideways shot!
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Re: A beautiful lady approaching her mid 40s

Postby craig.rohse on Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:48 pm

surenj wrote:Nice train chasing car sort of shot in #3. I reckon you can further improve that by putting a scared looking driver in the seat!


:agree:

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