Min DOF Photography

A few pics from yesterday’s session:

. . . . Hot

. . . . . Wild

. . . . . Beautiful

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Not! I’m just fuckin’ with you:). But she sure looks like her, at least to me.

And another one from Tromostovje, the second part of the session (she doesn’t remind me of Rosario on this one though). Fashion style lighting, I like the background on this one, colours and nice bokeh. I don’t like this photo particularly, especially her facial expression is not what I wanted, but I explained why this part of the session was unsuccessful in the previous post. I’m showing it to you, because it differs from the others.

Yes!!! I’ve finally made it. I had a session with a latina. Not just a latino looking girl. She’s the real thing, she’s partly Colombian. It was our first session, we rushed a bit, since we didn’t have as much time as we planned, but I’m satisfied with the results. We planned to have 3 parts of the session. The warm up part, with choosing the best styling, the urban part in the center of Ljubljana and the playground part. We shot the first part as planned, for the second we made some photos, but we cut it short since some intrusive people ran into us (started taking photos with their cell-phones) and everyone was watching, so she wasn’t relaxed. I’d need a whole team to make this part work, besides the assistant a body guard. We could make the third part as we planned, because there was so much people on the playground, there was a line for every slide, swing etc . So we shot the 3rd part on the stairs near the playground.

She reminds me of Rosario Dawson.

I had a studio session again, tried various types of lighting etc (testing, practising and learning). I couldn’t believe everything went according to plan. I thought I was gonna have lots of problems with “non-conventional” lighting.

Tisa was great as always, so I made a few interesting photos and quite a lot of test photos. Here are some of both:

Lick it!

Freakin’ out!

I found another interesting photo from the first session. I didn’t come in the top five last time, but I’ve posted it in a web gallery and people like it…

Here it is:

I had to practise on studio photography (I’m a nOOb), because I’ll start doing studio photography on (almost) daily basis. So I invited Eva in the studio, so that I could try a few lighting combinations. While it’s pretty easy to get a standard soft lighting, it’s hard to get something not too ordinary, without messing up something…

We had a short session today and plan to have another in a studio next week. I must say, she was great, it’s usually harder to make a good photo on the first session.

That’s all folks.

I digged this session in my archive. Shots were taken in early October 2006, when my friend Matias was testing studio lighting in Kazina. After a few shots that I made inside with the 2 sofboxes he had, I got bored (I hate studio photography since you are stuck in one place) and shooting at f9 made me sick so I had to ran out on the balcony and make a f1.8 series with Andreja. I’m going to show you a lot of the photos I took, so you can get a picture of what we were shooting.

I started with my tiny Canon 50 1.8 at f2.5 (because it’s not sharp below f2.5), the first 3 are made with it:

85 mm, f1.8:

Below you can see two 85 mm, f1.8 shots, with beautiful bokeh. Focused on the near eye:

Again 85 mm, f1,8 focused on the far eye:

Yeah that’s me (reflection in the eye). Huge crop f3.5, 1/80 handheld and still sharp:

Please help me decide on the crop. The first one is the original capture, second is cropped:


This come out best of all in my opinion - yeah you’ve already seen it in another post. 85mm f1.8

EDIT(added at 16.00): I forgot about this “ninja style” photo. I took a few photos like this one, to focus on her beautiful eyes:

I gotta say it was a good day. Session was great because I was working with the beauty and the beast. Mina was the beauty and the beast was Canon 1Ds mkII. It was pretty warm (12C) so she didn’t freeze in that mini-skirt.

All the photos are straight from Rawshooter (we finished the session 3 hours ago), so no Photoshop postprocessing is done. I’ve taken all the shots, except of the first one (with 50 1.8) with Canon 85 1.8.

Canon, Nikon, lens, depth of field, flash, aperture, raw, jpg, Pentax, portrait, portrait photography

Lately I really enjoy taking these kind of photos. Relaxed, stupid and without any pressure on me (there sometimes is when I do something serious). Besides that it’s really fun for me and my friends, we’re laughing out our asses when we’re reviewing the photos. Some of you that are reading this, are probably thinking that this is a waste of a 7000 euros camera. But it’s not. It’s not even mine, besides that I have a session tomorrow for the cover of ONA magazine.

All of the photos are taken with Canon 1DS mkII and Canon EF 85 1.8. Most of them are shot wide open, the rest in the f2-2.5 range.

Another, normal friend joined the “session”

And here’s another I took right after I got the camera. Unfortunately battery was almost empty so I managed to take just a few shots