I’ve waited a long time hoping to be able to post this, and finally, the time is here.

A while ago, Petra and myself took a friend of mine for a photo-shoot down to the Slovenian coast. It was a really sunny day, but most of all it was a hot day. Thanks to Samo’s reflector, our girl was even more hot, in more ways than one.

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So, some of you know it already, some guessed it, I got a new lens a couple of days ago. And the same day I went out and tested it. I had a chance to take a few photos of Bolero’s Zanzi-bar show at Špas Teater. A promo spot can be viewed here. I did see the show on the first night, but that didn’t help me a lot when I tried to capture a few moments. The dancing is just way too fast. Not to mention the light wasn’t that great. It was super-bright in the center, and really weak towards the edge. Anyway, hopefully, next time, I’ll get more than 10 minutes to do group shots, and will be able to tell them how to stand :-).

I had this idea in my head for a long time… It involved a tutu, and an abandoned building with large windows. I’ve been inside Tovarna Rog once, and I wanted it to be my location. However, to shoot inside, usually, you need permission from the municipality. And I must say that the people I dealt with (Kristina Novak, and Jerneja Batič) were extremely helpful and friendly. Anyway, once I got the permissions, I wanted to get a little bit of extra help… this involved one borrowed SB-800 (tnx Jan), one make-up artist (tnx Anja), a reflector (tnx Samo), an assistant (tnx Urša) and a ballerina (tnx Neža :-)).

So, here are the photos… I did two separate series, and I’ll post the other one later this week.

Comments are greatly appreciated.

 A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine invited me to “help out” with a session with his friend, Urška. It was more of an improv session, so no special ideas from my side. I did howewer get to play with a reflector screen (thanks Samo). So my obvious choice were a few of to the sun shots.

I divided them into two series, a bit more “urban” trying to go with the effect I like the most, which is a little extreme saturation and black increase, and the sun shots :).

I LIKE THE SUN, I NEED THE SUN.

 But untill then, another SB-800/600 will do just fine =).

All in all, it was a really fun experience, and I’d love to repeat it one day, with a bit more ideas in mind, now that I know the model ;-).

As promised yesterday, here’s Jessica. This time in color.

For the next one, I’d really appriciate some advice, in particular, how about this effect:

To me, this one captures the feeling better, but I’m not sure. Any thoughts?

When the cat is away, the mouses¹ are playing.

So, as you may know, thanks to Outlook being my RSS reader, I managed to spot a post from Peter where he’s looking for an assistant. So I decided to give it a shot, after all, I’m very curious as to how people who’ve done it before do it =).

It’s nothing special really, just holding a reflector, but obviously I had my Nikon around my neck as much as I could. And when Peter went out to get something to drink, I “hijacked” his borrowed Canon 1Ds MkII & Jessica and took some shots.

The style of shots is different, I think, than what Peter did.

So I don’t need to ask myself if I should go with BW or color, I’ve chosen to go with both, but in two different posts. So, tomorrow I’ll post the colored ones. Comments are welcomed!

1) Good god man, obviously I mean mice, but for some reason the word just wanted out =), so I wrote it.

As you know, today I was an asistant for Peter Bernik. Since my best friend is waiting in his car (pool time!) this is just a teaser… =)

I’ll post more. I promise.

So, as you might recall from my previous post I had some time to kill and Petra and I went to see Jan at his workplace - The Jože Pučnik Airport. Damn, that’s a bad name, I’ll stop it now… we went to Brnik. I wanted to test flash & sunset with fast shutter synchronization. Needless to say, it didn’t work the way I wanted it to, but on the other hand I’m not sure what I wanted :). I thing a reflector screen would be better. More natural light…

The picture to me, looks fake. The lightning on Petra is too perfect, IMHO. Well, will have to try one with a reflector screen. Spanking of which, anyone have any good recommendations for it?

Anyway, these pictures were taken in the near by corn field :), I just wanted a series titled “Na koruzi s Petro” :).

I’m really bothered by the overlay on the first image over Petra’s mouth. Will have to do better next time I gather.

Comments welcomed!

I know I promised to finish the watermarking tool by today but something came up - so I postponed it until tomorrow. I hope I’ll make it. I already have a few good feature ideas, including inverting watermarks when the background is too bright. We’ll see how it goes. =)

Until then, I’ll post one picture from a test session I had with a friend, Petra. I wanted to try something with the flash and the sunset. It didn’t work that well … But I did manage to get her to pose a few fun shots before we had to go =). Here’s one I really like.

p.s.: my best friend started blogging - i’m sure he’ll appriciate the visits. Personally, I wish him a lot of quality posts and good comments!

Ok, so as I promised, here are the color pictures.