April 19 Results

Nikolai · April 23, 2008

I spent this day of my life in a great company of 3 models, 2 MUAs and 1 very tall waterfall:-)

EDIT:
pics moved to the official thread:
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=92088

Complete set, including "Behind the Scenes" coverage, can be found here: http://nik.smugmug.com/PhotoSoCal/501956

Thank you Diane's Beachware for the provided swimsuits!

VisualXpressions · April 23, 2008

Sweet eye candy Nick!

All are very well done... 6 & 7 are my favorites... very seductive look and expression on the model.

Winston

photoj · April 23, 2008

April 19 for me...
Images moved to the offical thread http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=815278#post815278

JAG · April 23, 2008

My models are of the 2 and 4 legged kind plus I love to take pics of 'stuff'.... I spent the day at the stables where my lil one gets lessons. She was learning how to ride bareback for the first time.

This is Clementine...

This is Pirate.....

This is my lil one on Ghosty.....

Getting close up gives for an unusual perspective.....

gotta love the bling.....

And finally.....low light shooting......A totally random even in time....

If you want to see the rest of the gallery you can find it here....
http://jagcreations.smugmug.com/gallery/4754909_biVi8#281800336_ofaqy

Cuong · April 23, 2008

So you guys are not waiting for the "Big Reveal" date on Saturday, 4/26?

Cuong

JAG · April 23, 2008

Cuong wrote:

So you guys are not waiting for the "Big Reveal" date on Saturday, 4/26?

Cuong

Heres the thing with me...I have set aside the time to go out to take the pics but its unfortunate that I didn't get the part where I would have to wait a week to post it before I even started. I will not be around this for the next few days and through the weekend.....I hope that this is acceptable since its not an "official" challenge. Click on!

JAG · April 23, 2008

photoj wrote:

My models were a bit younger but they were full of energy. We started the morning with two diffrent games but the weather got the best of the second game. As promised here is a look at my day. Some I just like, even though I could have done a better job taking it...some I choose for the expresions of the players and some are just good shots. Take a look and see what my day was like. As always CC welcome and desired.

If you want to see others from the day take a look at the gallery:
http://www.ukvphotos.com/gallery/4755310_SULSd/1/281914353_v6cFt

PhotoJ

Love the expressions on these lil ones!

JAG · April 23, 2008

Nikolai wrote:

I spent this day of my life in a great company of 3 models, 2 MUAs and 1 very tall waterfall:-)

Here are promised 10 pics. C&C is welcome and appreciated.

Complete set, including "Behind the Scenes" coverage, can be found here: http://nik.smugmug.com/PhotoSoCal/501956

Thank you Diane's Beachware for the provided swimsuits!

Nikolai...
Looks like you had a great day. I like the compositions and the lighting in most of them. I think the contrast of shadows with the eyelashes are great and I get the artistic point to that. There is something about the lighting in the last two that I am not caring for. I think it might be a little too harsh.

On the closeups...I like the black and white but it might need just a tad tweekening on softening it up some. You can see the powder on her nose its so sharp. These are just my opinions. You are a great photographer!

Cuong · April 23, 2008

Joyce, thanks for sharing your result with us. Maybe for the rest of us, who can wait till Saturday, we should use this thread to post instead of having Paul creating a new one. This way we don't have to jump around different threads to see all the results.

Cuong

VisualXpressions · April 23, 2008

OK, I can't wait either...

I started early morning at home, took a few shots of our animals while my Wife was working in the garden...

Our two minature Donkeys... "Jimmy and Stubby" (from left to right) Stuby had his name changed when one of our horses bit his tail off!

One of my Daughter's horses "Lilly" a three year old Appaloosa...
"FEED ME"

Farm auction season has arrived in south west Pennsylvania... I headed off to a Farm equipment and tool auction to see what I could get cheap! I didn't bid on anything but I got a few shots...

"The Old Timer Crew"

"The Bid"

"Might Just Bid on This One"

"How'r your crops Doing"

"If Pa buys a tractor, better get this manual for it"

After the Auction I noticed there was activity at the Waynseboro Armory... U.S. Army National Guard, 2nd, 104th Cavalry...

"I'm Ready, when do we deploy?"

"Ready for Action"

No Title

And that's my 10... I decided to go B&W with all my shots, just for fun... Enjoy!

Winston

Tango · April 23, 2008

i will save mine for the coming saturday...they arnt qute as poping as nikolia's.

Nikolia, my favs are 1, 4 & 7, very nice in everyway i can think of.

#3, im not so liking, would/could you smooth out the skin textures around the arm pit area?

pyroPrints.com · April 23, 2008

AaronNelson wrote:

i will save mine for the coming saturday...they arnt qute as poping as nikolia's.

I'm not sure Nikolai would apreciate you changing his gender

Nikolai · April 23, 2008

AaronNelson wrote:

#3, im not so liking, would/could you smooth out the skin textures around the arm pit area?

I replaced #3, looks like many folks don't like the original:-)
Thank you for commenting!

achambers · April 23, 2008

People are already putting their pics up, I downloaded mine last night and haven't even looked at all of them yet. Seems that I'm waaaaaaaay behind the curve.

Nikolai · April 23, 2008

achambers wrote:

People are already putting their pics up, I downloaded mine last night and haven't even looked at all of them yet. Seems that I'm waaaaaaaay behind the curve.

You know what they say about the "early birders" ..

Cuong · April 23, 2008

achambers wrote:

People are already putting their pics up, I downloaded mine last night and haven't even looked at all of them yet. Seems that I'm waaaaaaaay behind the curve.

Don't worry, you have till have a couple more days. These guys are so anxious to share theirs that they can't wait till Saturday.

Cuong

Tango · April 23, 2008

pyroPrints.com wrote:

I'm not sure Nikolai would apreciate you changing his gender

im a freaking idiot......sorry....

photoj · April 23, 2008

Well be out all day saturday...
Like many of you I will be out all day Saturday shooting, if I don't process them by mid-week then I will be behind come satuday. So when I saw the thread I went ahead and posted. Not to mention I promis the team parents to have the postings by the next game day when I can.

jrnylst · April 23, 2008

Photoj, #9 and #10 are precious. JAG, what a great variety! VisualXpressions, the black and white really makes those pictures stand out, especially the good ol' boys.

Antonio Correia · April 23, 2008

Cuong wrote:

So you guys are not waiting for the "Big Reveal" date on Saturday, 4/26?

Cuong

anwmn1 · April 23, 2008

I'll be busy all day Saturday as well but I will just post on Sunday as I am still looking for 10 worthy of posting.

Nik- Love #1 and #7 Rest just have too many shadows going on in the rest of them and the models seem out of place with the location. I think I know what you where going for but

Were you using your new lights??

PhotoJ- cute stuff- #6 is a winner

Jag- Cool stuff- REALLY like the first shot of "Ghosty" with the dust.

Visual Expressions- Great PJ shoot. "Old Timer Crew" and "If Pa buys a tractor..." stand out. Love "Old Timer Crew"

Nikolai · April 23, 2008

anwmn1 wrote:

Nik- Love #1 and #7 Rest just have too many shadows going on in the rest of them and the models seem out of place with the location. I think I know what you where going for but Were you using your new lights??

Thanks, Aaron!

The "out of place" was intentional :-)

Shadows: yeah, I hear ya... Due to some mishaps we were almost two hours late, so sun got out of the ridge I was counting on to be our big natural gobo . And you know how hard is to fight the midday sun

No, that was my old lights (sunpaks), I only gelled them with half CTO films from rosco kits I got from B&H (the famous $0.01 deal:-).
You can see them (lights) in some of "Behind The Scenes" pics, and also here's a better view:

Cheers!

PaulThomasMcKee · April 23, 2008

"The Big Reveal"
First of all, for those who have already posted their "day in the life" pics...Great Photos! Certainly makes me look forward to seeing what other's have shot.

Second, No worries on having slipped out a few early reveals...it's all for fun anyway.

BUT - following the delayed gratification theory, I would like to encourage all those who have not yet revealed their photos to wait until I post "The Big Reveal" thread this coming Saturday the 26th.

And it would be great if those who have revealed would repost thier photos to the "The Big Reveal' thread after it is started so that we have all of the photos in the same place.

Nikolai · April 23, 2008

PaulThomasMcKee wrote:

First of all, for those who have already posted their "day in the life" pics...Great Photos! Certainly makes me look forward to seeing what other's have shot.

Second, No worries on having slipped out a few early reveals...it's all for fun anyway.

BUT - following the delayed gratification theory, I would like to encourage all those who have not yet revealed their photos to wait until I post "The Big Reveal" thread this coming Saturday the 26th.

And it would be great if those who have revealed would repost thier photos to the "The Big Reveal' thread after it is started so that we have all of the photos in the same place.

Thanks, Paul, once again, I'm sorry for breaking the rules. :whip
Once your Official Revealing thread is up I will simply edit my own post and move my pics over there (so there is no double posting) and put a link to their new location instead.

anwmn1 · April 23, 2008

Nikolai wrote:

The "out of place" was intentional :-)

I looked through the rest of the photos you have up. There are some really nice ones of these same two girls. I figured you were going for a certain 'look' do you feel you pulled off what you were invisioning??

Shoot - your back up lights are nicer than any lights I own (oh yeah I don't have any :cry )

As for the subject matter- what is better than attractive girls and a waterfall?

You get some nice gigs my friend

Tentacion · April 23, 2008

Oh My, good thing I read this thread to the end, cuz I was almost ready to post my pics.....

Thanks Paul, I look forward to the Big Reveal.

Nik, I like your photos...but number 6 backside (dress/shoulder) area looks a little strange to me, it might be the lighting. I like #3, just find the hands could use a little softening......Nice Work! (I hope I got the pic numbers right).

Winston, love your b/w's, and I really like that "When Do We Deploy" and the "Hows your crops doing?" Nice Work Too!!

Nikolai · April 24, 2008

anwmn1 wrote:

I looked through the rest of the photos you have up. There are some really nice ones of these same two girls. I figured you were going for a certain 'look' do you feel you pulled off what you were invisioning??

Yes and no. The whole thing was a bit of logistical nightmare (people from 100 miles radius, garments, timing, weather, light, etc.), so a lot of things "just happened". "The best laid plans...", you know...:-)
But I'm still glad that I got what I got.
Could it be done better? Absolutely!
Worse? Very likely so, too.
It may not have happened due to a numerous reasons..
At least I learned a few things, that's for sure

You get some nice gigs my friend

Thank you! There are more coming, so stay tuned:-)

Nikolai · April 24, 2008

Tentacion wrote:

Nik, I like your photos...but number 6 backside (dress/shoulder) area looks a little strange to me, it might be the lighting. I like #3, just find the hands could use a little softening......Nice Work! (I hope I got the pic numbers right).

Thanks!
Yeah, #6 is the lighting...

We were two hours late, sun came up from the ridge...

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