AVFC_Hitz Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 The one with the hand is brilliant, Tarjei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 first photo does it for me, what's the story behind the shoot? College project, international playboy, or just lots of sisters happy to help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Cheers.. btw if anyone think it's shit I'd appreciate the honesty also. I've been thinking about doing a project for a while with the theme being the contrast between nature and body. Landscapes and bodyscapes in one, sort of, where the vulnerability and beauty of the body is juxtaposed to the more harsh and weathered nature. The youthful soft skin and round shapes against the aging wear of nature. It's been done before, I know, but I think I have a few ideas that would set it apart. Doing that however requires nude models and that is not so easy when you are not an established photographer. I started the project anyway though, but as I always find it when I have shoots, the abstract ideas are often very hard to make into something concrete as there are so many variables in terms of lighting, location and the models. You come there with a specific shot in mind, only to find that your mind has filled in all the blanks with awesome dream stuff. After the first few shoots I noticed that I had changed my whole style of shooting. Before I would shoot on sunny days, now I prefer rainy days. I would shoot with eye contact, typical sexy/sensual/sweet-looks, now I prefer the face hidden or in tension or motion. Before I would light everything as prefect as I could and make it as sharp as possible and avoid noise whenever possible, now I'm starting to love movement, grain and gritty colors. In addition I've started to try and crop my images in ways that surprises me. Sometimes I forget and fall back into old patters, but i.e. in the first pic the fact that the model is cropped off from the chest makes the image for me. I'm also playing with angles a lot more. Instead of standing straight up or crouching, I'm often have my camera on the ground or have it lifted up 2-3 meters with my tripod shooting down. I didn't include any of those shots here though. So in a sense it started of as a project about the body in nature and became more of a playground for me to look for my visual expression. The girls are all happy to do it, but none of them are models. I also want to shoot guys but its hard to find guys I'd be comfortable asking. I have a shoot with a guy scheduled though, so I'm excited about that. He's dark haired, fairly skinny with a lot of his body covered in tattoos, so I recon it will be a good fit. Some will be used in a group exhibition in Cape Town, but I also have a plan to use it for a solo exhibition in my home town. That's in the distant future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bromsgrove_avfc Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I love what you've done. I have been working with lots of models in the studio but I'm a little bored of that now and want to get more creative with bigger location projects. How did you go about getting make up artists and hair stylists? Also who chose your outfits etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I find studio work very limiting. I'm sure after a lot of experience you can do amazing things with poses, shapes and shadows, and there are probably more opportunities to do payed work, but still I would prefer to be outside even I had access to a studio. It's only in the last two images that I've used a hair stylist and make up artist. That was done for a job I did for a hair-saloon and at the end of it I grabbed some shots for my own project. I had been in the water for two and a half hours and it was getting very dark, so it was quite difficult cos I was shaking from the cold water and was stuck using a slow shutter. It kinda fits the project to have messy hair and natural or no make-up, but for previous shoots I've usually teamed up with students. If you live in a big city chances are there are a many people trying to get a good portfolio going and are happy to join any project. Perhaps some are kak, but if you meet someone good just keep working with them. While I was in Cape Town I occasionally used a networking website for models, photographers, stylists and make up artists. So if you don't have an in with the student community maybe a networking site that can help. I'm not too fussy about make up though. Perhaps cos I rarely do beauty/head-shots. If it's a classy shoot just tell them to put on make up as if they were going out to a club, but with matte make up and lipstick/nail-polish that fits a color scheme. For anything else, very little or no make up can work well.. you just have to find those models that look naturally good. The clothes I select myself, sometimes borrowed from friends or picked out from the models wardrobe. I've also used some stuff from my moms wardrobe that hasn't seen daylight in more than 20 years I tend to go for the oddest stuff, preferably one color, transparent and as little covered as the model is comfortable with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I've joined a local photography club, and have the first meeting tonight. Hope to get some inspiration as I'm bored with just taking scenery shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Kak has slipped in to my vocabulary it seems. It's an Afrikaans word and it means shit :nod: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 I've joined a local photography club, and have the first meeting tonight. Hope to get some inspiration as I'm bored with just taking scenery shots. Can't hurt, I guess! I find a lot of inspiration online. My favorite blogs: Paranaiv Ben Trovato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 I find studio work very limiting. I'm sure after a lot of experience you can do amazing things with poses, shapes and shadows, and there are probably more opportunities to do payed work, but still I would prefer to be outside even I had access to a studio. It's only in the last two images that I've used a hair stylist and make up artist. That was done for a job I did for a hair-saloon and at the end of it I grabbed some shots for my own project. I had been in the water for two and a half hours and it was getting very dark, so it was quite difficult cos I was shaking from the cold water and was stuck using a slow shutter. It kinda fits the project to have messy hair and natural or no make-up, but for previous shoots I've usually teamed up with students. If you live in a big city chances are there are a many people trying to get a good portfolio going and are happy to join any project. Perhaps some are kak, but if you meet someone good just keep working with them. While I was in Cape Town I occasionally used a networking website for models, photographers, stylists and make up artists. So if you don't have an in with the student community maybe a networking site that can help. I'm not too fussy about make up though. Perhaps cos I rarely do beauty/head-shots. If it's a classy shoot just tell them to put on make up as if they were going out to a club, but with matte make up and lipstick/nail-polish that fits a color scheme. For anything else, very little or no make up can work well.. you just have to find those models that look naturally good. The clothes I select myself, sometimes borrowed from friends or picked out from the models wardrobe. I've also used some stuff from my moms wardrobe that hasn't seen daylight in more than 20 years I tend to go for the oddest stuff, preferably one color, transparent and as little covered as the model is comfortable with. There's a lad over here who's on my Flickr contacts list who splits his time between photgraphing wildlife, and getting as many local girls as he can to pose topless for him. Fair play to him, he seems to get quite a few! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted August 30, 2012 Share Posted August 30, 2012 And I'm sure you have him on your list for his strong wildlife-images :nod: I've photographed a few with their titties out. I love the ladies, but it doesn't really do anything for me in that sense. I don't know why, but I am so distanced from that side of me when I'm shooting. It probably sounds pretentious but I'm more concerned with the effect nudity has, i.e a naked shoulder, thighs or breast, etc, can convey so many feelings, and I find just just showing a i.e shoulder or feet is great way to express a host of states. The problem is getting that across to the models.. but it sure help having a smart phone with images to show. I'm sure there is plenty of sleazy photographers around though. I was looking for inspiration and download a collection of a photographer called David Hamillton. I think he is french but at the time I hadn't heard of him. The collection was marked fine art nudes. When I looked through it though I was very surprised to see it was young girls, I would call them kids, from maybe 10 to 16 years old. The old bastards has been doing that since the 70s and up until the late 90s (according to the markings of the pictures). Even wierder was that looking at them from a art-perspective and pretending I wasn't looking at kids, I couldn't find a single good image. I can't understand for the life of me how he has managed to convince parents to photograph their kids, let alone producing mediocre art bordering on child pornography for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaInGreece Posted September 1, 2012 Share Posted September 1, 2012 I really like your style tarjei, the 2 shots that really stand out for me are the 2 girls in the lake and the hand in the water. I find more and more lately that I am moving further away from glamour photography (I still find it hard to believe that I'm getting bored of naked/semi naked pretty girls :wow: ) and getting more into alternative/artistic/gothic styles even fetish. I think its less sexually stimulating but much more mentally stimulating. Do you have an online portfolio? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 Cheers! People seem to love that hand in the water. I submitted some pics to Are at Paranaiv.no and he picked that one out as well as the one he liked, though not for the site. I guess whatever creative genre you are involved with you come to a point where you are getting bored and you feel you need to move on. So either re-invent what you are doing, because if you are bored with it you have probably fallen into a pattern, or try something new and maybe get back into it after a while. I have a tumbler-blog and a website, but they are both due some updates, especially the website. Have done 5 weddings and quite a few small jobs in two months now so I don't know how I'm gonna find the time if it continues like this. Good problem to have though! tumblr website I wouldn't mind to change my site a bit if anyone has a tip. Currently using a wordpress-theme that I kinda like, but I would prefer something minimalistic and quicker to use (currently I have to do picture by picture and each one is around 10 mouse clicks with loading in between). Do you have a site? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted September 2, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted September 2, 2012 Seriously impressive work there Tarjei. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaInGreece Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 i've got a deviant arts gallery http://rakirun.daportfolio.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 i've got a deviant arts gallery http://rakirun.daportfolio.com/ Ahem, think I'll have a proper look at that when the wife's gone to bed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Wicked locations there. I would have shot and edited those very differently. Yours is more true to the glamour style, which gets the dirty out of them I like the first series in gallery two.. on to something there. I always like a few detail shots to balance it of. Maybe you have a few of those but haven't added them? Have a look at Guido Argentini for some inspiration, especially the book Private Rooms. He does a lot of the same kind of thing, but with stunning, top class lighting in beautiful settings. Doesn't hurt that most of his models are perfect 10s either! Private Rooms (NSFW!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted September 4, 2012 Share Posted September 4, 2012 Good lord. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarjei Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 Too much for you, Risso? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiggyrichard Posted September 5, 2012 Share Posted September 5, 2012 I think ive just developed a love for photography!!! :shock: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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