Freelander Ladies, Olivia with X-700, (B:1/2)
File: 2023002-0212
Note: I apologise if any of the Welsh language is spelt wrong as I’m using Google’s translate software.
Car park at St Julian Inn, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.
Maes parcio yn St Julian Inn, Casnewydd, Cymru.
Morning of Wednesday 8th February 2023.
Bore dydd Mercher 8 Chwefror 2023.
About the photographs.
Am y ffotograffau.
This is Olivia, a model I booked for a two-hours outdoors photo-shoot, outside of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd).
Olivia is wearing a winter outfit containing of a Size L cream coloured faux fur jacket with hood, from New Look. She is also wearing a light blue turtleneck jumper, trousers with shiny strips down the length, and white trainers.
In those photographs, she is seen posing with my Minolta X-700 manual focus 35mm film SLR camera, which I have since 1985, but sadly stopped working, so I kept it purely for sentimental value and as props.
She is posing as if she’s checking the camera setting and looking to take some shots. Those photographs are as stand alone photos and also as part of a graphic design asset.
The vehicle behind her is a 2005 Land Rover Freelander.
It is a diesel 2.0L Td4 SE model with manual gearbox, and a BMW M47 engine. The tyres are BF Goodrich T/A KO2 All Terrain tyres on steel wheels. The Freelander was an entry-level Land Rover from 1997 to 2006, before being replaced by the Freelander 2 until 2015.
The location is the car park next to St Julian Inn, on the south bank of the River Usk.
With special thanks to the manager/owner of St Julian Inn for giving me permissions to use the car park.
As Olivia was booked for two-hours, we stayed at this location only for 50 minutes before moving to another location. Nothing wrong there, just that I needed a change of background. Those will be uploaded to my Photostream in near future.
What is this all about?
This is the first in a series of a long-term project I started working on, which is called Project: Freelander Ladies. It is a variation of the so called Land Rover Girls type of photographs. Generally, the majority of the Land Rover Girls kind of photos tend to be of younger women posing next to mostly either the Series or the Defender production models, and less common are the Discovery or Range Rover models. There are barely enough photos of women posing next to a Freelander, so my aim is to create some, specially for the Freelander owners and fans to enjoy.
In addition to this being a “cars and girls” kind of photography which is the main role, there are other roles, including photographs needed for a graphic design project. In this case, I needed Olivia to pose as if she is either a journalist or private detective taking photos, for the purpose of designing a book cover or a DVD case cover. I will showcase those photos in near future.
Trivia: I directed Olivia on posing as a character taking photos of suspicious activity, by saying to her something like “Imagine in your mind, you’re a detective taking photos of someone to be used as evidence.” So Olivia posed in ways that I considered to be what I’m looking for, the right kind of photos I needed (i.e.: for back cover of a DVD case design).
But there was this one time that she posed by looking at the back of the camera, pretending to be checking photos on an LCD screen. I had to stop shooting, and explained that this part is a bad idea. I explained that anyone familiar with cameras may recognise it as a manual focus film camera, which does not have a monitor on the back for checking photos. In novels or movies, this would be what is called a “plot hole” or “anachronism.” I suggest that if she wants to pose as if checking the camera, she could pretend to be checking the control settings on top of the camera.
NOTICE:
Canned Comments and award codes will be deleted as they are clickable adverts, thus counts as spam. You are free to comment with your own words for yourself, but don’t do it for the groups.
Freelander Ladies, Olivia with X-700, (B:1/2)
File: 2023002-0212
Note: I apologise if any of the Welsh language is spelt wrong as I’m using Google’s translate software.
Car park at St Julian Inn, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.
Maes parcio yn St Julian Inn, Casnewydd, Cymru.
Morning of Wednesday 8th February 2023.
Bore dydd Mercher 8 Chwefror 2023.
About the photographs.
Am y ffotograffau.
This is Olivia, a model I booked for a two-hours outdoors photo-shoot, outside of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd).
Olivia is wearing a winter outfit containing of a Size L cream coloured faux fur jacket with hood, from New Look. She is also wearing a light blue turtleneck jumper, trousers with shiny strips down the length, and white trainers.
In those photographs, she is seen posing with my Minolta X-700 manual focus 35mm film SLR camera, which I have since 1985, but sadly stopped working, so I kept it purely for sentimental value and as props.
She is posing as if she’s checking the camera setting and looking to take some shots. Those photographs are as stand alone photos and also as part of a graphic design asset.
The vehicle behind her is a 2005 Land Rover Freelander.
It is a diesel 2.0L Td4 SE model with manual gearbox, and a BMW M47 engine. The tyres are BF Goodrich T/A KO2 All Terrain tyres on steel wheels. The Freelander was an entry-level Land Rover from 1997 to 2006, before being replaced by the Freelander 2 until 2015.
The location is the car park next to St Julian Inn, on the south bank of the River Usk.
With special thanks to the manager/owner of St Julian Inn for giving me permissions to use the car park.
As Olivia was booked for two-hours, we stayed at this location only for 50 minutes before moving to another location. Nothing wrong there, just that I needed a change of background. Those will be uploaded to my Photostream in near future.
What is this all about?
This is the first in a series of a long-term project I started working on, which is called Project: Freelander Ladies. It is a variation of the so called Land Rover Girls type of photographs. Generally, the majority of the Land Rover Girls kind of photos tend to be of younger women posing next to mostly either the Series or the Defender production models, and less common are the Discovery or Range Rover models. There are barely enough photos of women posing next to a Freelander, so my aim is to create some, specially for the Freelander owners and fans to enjoy.
In addition to this being a “cars and girls” kind of photography which is the main role, there are other roles, including photographs needed for a graphic design project. In this case, I needed Olivia to pose as if she is either a journalist or private detective taking photos, for the purpose of designing a book cover or a DVD case cover. I will showcase those photos in near future.
Trivia: I directed Olivia on posing as a character taking photos of suspicious activity, by saying to her something like “Imagine in your mind, you’re a detective taking photos of someone to be used as evidence.” So Olivia posed in ways that I considered to be what I’m looking for, the right kind of photos I needed (i.e.: for back cover of a DVD case design).
But there was this one time that she posed by looking at the back of the camera, pretending to be checking photos on an LCD screen. I had to stop shooting, and explained that this part is a bad idea. I explained that anyone familiar with cameras may recognise it as a manual focus film camera, which does not have a monitor on the back for checking photos. In novels or movies, this would be what is called a “plot hole” or “anachronism.” I suggest that if she wants to pose as if checking the camera, she could pretend to be checking the control settings on top of the camera.
NOTICE:
Canned Comments and award codes will be deleted as they are clickable adverts, thus counts as spam. You are free to comment with your own words for yourself, but don’t do it for the groups.