Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The dog shot is really nice, Nathan. You see the hunger in its eyes, and I lover the colors in it, too. The pool shoot series is nice to look at, too, but I guess that is mostly because I recognize alot of the shooting setting from my work. Any results of your friend's shoot yet? Thanks for showing, Philippe > From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:13:24 +0200 > To: LEG <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 33: The fashion world comes to Almere > > Week 33 was a nice week for me: my sister from Poland was visiting, so I > only worked 2 days, and spent the rest of the time showing her around > the Netherlands. At the same time, some interesting stuff happened at > home, so the mix of images reflects it. > > My dog likes food, as does everyone else in this family. And I always > have my camera at hand. My sister had cooked, the weather was nice so we > ate in the garden, and the dog was checking things out from her > customary position under the table: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33.jpg > > This is what piqued her interest, a typical Polish dish, pierogi, with > the requisite stuff to wash it down: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt1.jpg > > Then a couple of images from our trips around the country. In the small > lovely town of Gorinchem I spotted this child waiting for his mother > outside a shop, and inspired by Don's recent "waiting" series, snapped > this: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt2.jpg > > This one is a street conversation in Amsterdam, near the red light > district: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt3.jpg > > Thursday was one of the two days I did work. When I came home, I found a > full-fledged photo shoot taking place in my garden (or, more precisely > in and around our pool). Our neighbor Felix was shooting an assignment > for GQ involving some obscenely expensive male underwear, and had > decided on a watery theme--hence the use of our pool. Here is Felix in > action on our back porch: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt4.jpg > > The basic setup was that the models (there were two guys) would pose in > the pool: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt5.jpg > and then my wife and my son would pour water on the model from each side > because Felix wanted some kind of waterfall effect: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt6.jpg > As is obvious from the above image, it is not easy for the model to keep > his eyes open and otherwise hold the pose in those circumstances, so the > shot would be re-taken, and then again and again and...This was a > reasonably nice summer day, and the water in our pool is heated to 24-26 > C, but we are after all talking Holland here, so after a while the model > would be visibly cold: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt7.jpg > I certainly got an appreciation of how hard these guys and gals actually > work during a shoot. > > For those interested in seeing more, I have put up a separate gallery of > that here: > http://www.fotocycle.dk/indexmodel.html > > The complete PAW index is at: > http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html > and comments and critique are as always gratefully accepted. > > Nathan > > -- > Nathan Wajsman > Almere, The Netherlands > > General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com > Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com > Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman > http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 > Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >