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Quel que soit le chemin, quel que soit l'avenir, le seul guide en ce monde est la main d'une amie.
Une larme en dit plus que tu ne pourrais en dire ; une larme a son prix, c'est la soeur d'un sourire.
Partons d'un baiser pour un monde inconnu...
Confident businessman - A trendy European businessman with a blue tie and shirt. The picture is taken in a city mall.
Technical details:
Camera:
12,8mp full frame Canon 5D, using mostly a Canon 70-200mm 2.8L USM IS.
Workflow: (Your guarantee for professionalism)
Shot RAW, develop in capture one pro, import to Photoshop in a 16 bit TIFF file, manually clean image for dust, small particles and trademarks, save to TIFF, re-edit after a few days and save to jpg for upload.
I never use any noise reduction, except for dark areas without details.
This portrait of Maria Elena, like the other similar one, seem almost to have been drawn. Does anybody know, were the photos manipulated in a way to make them look like sketches?
Luna at Vitale Park on Conesus Lake, one of the Finger Lakes in central New York, wearing a lovely striped cut-out midi dress from Express on the first beautiful day of the year. Follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/luna_model_account/
Follow me at www.instagram.com/ma_kleen/
One in the hand is worth two in the bush... sometimes you get both!
Bald Eagles
Redoubt Bay Lodge
Big River Lakes, AK
This was my first shoot with the lovely Phoebe. She had recently been selected as an Eagle Rock Girl but was not yet famous as a billboard model. Phoebe arrived early so we had some quiet time to shoot before everyone else showed up. She was nice and warm and feeling quite adventurous. What a great first shoot - hopefully with many more to come in the future!
I took these photos on 1/1/22.
...she came out of the coffee shop and I watched her tattoos dance by on her hips. She made no effort to conceal her plumbers butt - and so I needed to photograph her. I hopped on my bike with my neck-hanging camera swinging like Tarzan as I chased her along the urban jungle's sidewalk.
I asked if she was camera shy - and told her I noticed that she was more than comfortable with her skin on display. She set her bag on the ground and hiked up her shirt for my camera lens while she smiled and asked if I often approach girls to display their naked hips for my electronic memory...
I was happy to have met her...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXqFFfVpnhQ
(Angel Of Montgomery - Prine)
Hasselblad 500 CM + Planar 80mm + Kodak Tri-X 100 2003 expired.
© Luís Campillo 2015
Model Vanesa García. www.facebook.com/vanesagarcia.artistavisual
instagram.com/luiscampillo/
K2 secret. I love shapes. Unique shapes, especially. I love swagger, personality, bravado. I love interesting. Confident design, but never hubris or better-than- you arrogance. The exact qualities I like in a person. This desk is chock full of look-at-me personality, with some serious style street credit, and might possibly be the coolest thing Standard ever produced visually. You will not currently find another example anywhere in the country, which cannot be dismissed.
Reading a book that may be a carte de visite photo album.
CDV by Adams' Gallery, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Here we are in 1950's downtown Dallas with shapely ladies (no size 0 back then!) in their lovely suits, matching purses and shoes strolling confidently down the street and a man in a straw hat giving them an appreciative nod.
Photo by Tom Collins, 1950's.
In 1985-86, I worked at Collins Color Lab on McKinney Avenue in Dallas. When I worked there, the lab mostly did prints of huge architectural renderings for firms all over the city.
Located in a turn-of-the-century house that hadn't been updated since Mr. Collins set up shop there in the 50's, the lab contained file cabinet after file cabinet of 4x5 negatives.
One day, Mr. Collins daughter, Beth, who ran the business end of the lab, asked me to help her go through the file cabinets; they were going to purge old negatives to have the silver extracted from them to make way for more room in the lab.
Well, when I opened the first package of negatives, I was shocked. I had expected to see architectural renderings, but instead, I found negatives of Dallas from the 1950's and 60's. Apparently, Mr. Collins spent his early years as a photographer taking photos for businesses, advertising firms, architects, and newspapers.
There were tens of thousands of negatives of this great stuff, and I wanted to keep every single one. However, that wasn't the goal of the project, so I got to work going through every negative in one file cabinet, tossing 98% of them in a trash bag to be taken for extraction. It was a painful job to do.
While we were going through the negatives, I did ask Beth if I could keep some that I really liked, and she agreed, which is how I ended up with these.
I have about 40 negatives and, at one time, made contact sheets of all of them. Today, I found two of the contact sheets, which I've cropped and posted here. They aren't in the best shape, but I've never been able to find an enlarger that takes 4x5 negatives, so I've been out of luck making actual prints of any of these. So, for now, the contact sheets will have to suffice.
The Collins Color Lab stayed in business for several years after I left, but it finally closed when Mr. Collins died. Now, the building has been lovingly restored and is an art gallery.
I'm happy to say that a large part of Mr. Collins' photos/negatives were donated to the Dallas Historical Society, and you can view some of his great work here:
www.dallashistory.org/history/dallas/freezette.htm
His photos are scattered throughout the site, so you'll have to look around.
This portrait is the result of a bit of friendly coaxing, as is sometimes the case with our project. I saw her standing with a girlfriend in the midst of a downtown crowd and I was drawn immediately to her interesting and attractive look. There was the hat, the attractive features, and the earrings. I made my 100 Strangers approach and told her I liked her confident and laid-back look and would love to photograph her for my project. She was clearly taken a bit off-balance and asked me to define “laid back.” I scrambled to explain that I just meant relaxed and what I really meant was “photogenic.” She was not committing but she was still engaged so I told her a bit more about the project and said I would do the photos now and on the spot. The contact card with sample photos seemed to tip the balance toward “Ok. If you think so.” Meet Pauleen.
I took a photo in the crowd, then encouraged her to remove the reflective sunglasses. She was reluctant. She’s been travelling (visiting Toronto with her girlfriend from London England) and thought the strain showed in her eyes. I said I know Photoshop and would give her an honest opinion and not use the photo if I thought it was unflattering. Pauleen relented and I’m so glad she did.
There was little opportunity for a background that was not busy so after a couple of middle-of-the-crowd photos, I suggested we move to some booths showing and selling the work of local artists. I posed her just under the opening of the booth with artwork behind her and out of focus – still kind of busy but not bad.
Pauleen was clearly self-conscious about being photographed and I had lots of shots where she was glancing to the side or, if looking at my camera, blinking. I tried to relax her and joked that her modeling career was going to be in jeopardy if she keeps blinking so much. I knew she was struggling a bit with the light and no shades and I truly appreciated her putting up with my request because I think her eyes are really attractive.
Photos taken, we visited for a few minutes and I gave her and her friend a couple of ideas for sightseeing in Toronto. I found out she is 46 and is a Registered Nurse, specializing in Pediatrics. She loves children and it would seem her job is the perfect fit for her. She moved to England at the age of 29 from Trinidad and Tobago to start her career in nursing. When I asked her what her impressions are of Toronto so far she said “Very positive. The people have been really nice to us and we’re enjoying ourselves a lot.” I told her I was glad to hear people were treating them well and said that I’m very proud to be from Toronto. I love the city which is rather expensive, but has many positive features.
As we were exchanging contact information I asked if she was a religious person. She said “Yes, I am.” I bragged about being so perceptive, and then pointed to my ears. “Your earrings were a bit of a hint. I like them.” She laughed and said “Oh, you are SUCH a psychic.” All in all, it was a great encounter and I’m pleased with the photo which I think looks best in monochrome.
Thank you Pauleen for participating in 100 Strangers. You are #803 in Round 9 of my project. It was fun meeting you. I hope you return to London with happy memories of your visit to our city and will enjoy our encounter and this photo as a nice souvenir.
Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by the other photographers in our group at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page.
Follow-up: I received a very nice email from Pauleen telling me how much she enjoyed our encounter and that she loved the write-up. She offered a couple of factual corrections which I have made and said she was interested in following the project in the future. Thank you Pauleen. It's always a treat to hear from someone I met and photographed for my project.