The Window

Window must be one of the greatest invention in human development. It introduces us a view, light, and source of breath. Sometimes, I am not sure what I will choose between a door and window? May be a window is more important? When you are in a room, door is an exit, but window is like hope......
Took this image in a restaurant in Chiangmai, Thailand, while having some Pu-er tea with my German friend, saw the pottery vase standing by the window, shaded and shaped nicely by the light from the garden, so I told myself, "What a picture", took my Contax 645 with Phase One P45+, Carl Zeiss Apo-Makro-Planar 120/4.

The Pose

Pose is something that has to come as a nature, you can or you can't, at least this is what I thought. Anna, a beautiful Polish model, beautiful, and good model figure, but terribly lack of confidence. But as a model, she still make a model pose easily, something a profession. I shot many different models, some can pose a lot, but those can pose a lot does not always capable posing something similar, it is about each own body, comfort and many thing else. It is as lucky for a model to meet a good photographer as photographer to meet a good model. Shot on Bangkok RCA Street, Canon 1Ds II and EF 35/1.4L.

More Motion in Still

A recent shot made for Mercedes CLC, with a Russian model, Olga. It was a rather straight forward shoot, to portrait the model with a character similar to the car, hopefully. Here again I ask the model to swing her hair so that it create a motion that otherwise difficult to get, even by a blower.
Color is rather simple, with the nice blond hair the high light. Shot with Phase One P65+ on Fuji GX645AF, HC 50-110.

Motion in still

I have touched this subject often, becasue I shot it often. Not that I don't like static shots, often I just found motion in a still image deliver extra vibe, brings more life into the image, although this is a subjective opint of view.

This image, shot by using Canon 1Ds III with one of my favorite lens, EF 50/1.2L captured the motion in a classic portrait. The hair movement is just enough to display the color of the hair, and the skin, and of course the sexy Wolford swimsuit, agasint the mono tone background, make this image attractive, hopefully.
Again here I use a normal lens to capture the image, to keep myself relatively close to the subject.

Level with the subect

This is a shot made on one of my favorite model, the Canadian model Jenna. Fair skin, and light blond, I have my model lie herself on a table of white reflective top, and a large reflector to bathe her in light to get this image, soft, and comfortable. I have the back of Jenna slight over exposed so that Jeena is merged into the light, to further give the image a little more dream like.
Camera angle in this shot is important, too lower, the perspective will likely becomes unnatural, too high, the intimacy between the model and photographer will be taken away. So I level the camera as Jenna, made this shot. Using Canon 1Ds III and EF 85/1.2L.

Reflection

This is an image took in Xinjiang, China. Lake Bosten, also regarded as the largest fresh water lake in China, large, expanded to the end of sight. I took this picture while taking a tourist type boat ride, due to its commercial nature, the boatman was hurry to finish the route, to save his time, as well as to get possible extra ride, something similar in all over China, that people is always hurry on something, can't wait to make extra income.
On Lake Bosten, this means you are on a boat that is far from still, and the remedy was to make sure my camera was set to ISO value that enable me to take shoot with reasonable sharpness. Took by using a Nikon D3X, with the AF-S VR 70-200/2.8G IF-ED, I was able to get f/7.0 at 1/400s while setting the image at 86mm focal length, at ISO 320.
An otherwise regular view, I quickly snap the image before the ripple from our boat disturb the stillness, and the reflection.

Light and the beautiful

A shot made recently, the Mercedez CRC anda beautiful Russian model, Olga. The model was lit by a studio light, while the highlight on her face was painted by the car's headlamp. Made with the new Phase One P65+ processed with the recently released Capture Pro 5, a small crop from a large original capture shows the minute detail of the image.