Nude Photography 03

Briefing: I was approached by a TV presenter, that doing 35 years, wanted to have anude photo shoot with treatment of men’s magazine. This test would appear as areminder and if someone is interested, we could publish it.

Production: We decided by common agreement that production would be in a different house in a luxury condominium. Would be taken quite accessories, some lingerie, and also the service of a full time makeup artist, who was chosen the competent Marcos Antunes.

Photo Shoot: We arrived early at the location, and a good surprise, the house was wonderful. A quick tour, along with Renato Moraes, who would do a mix with the making of test and marking of sets is defined. Time to install the equipment. In this case I opted for a generator flash Atek, with umbrellas and scrim jim and camera as the Canon 5D Mark, that the option to make cut in post production to stay viable. All done, let’s shoot.

Comment: When photographing nudes always enjoy working with experienced professionals in this type of picture, and use a lot of relaxed conversation, to let the model’s confortable, and get a result that pleases everyone involved, even those whoenjoy the photos. Unfortunately I can not post pictures yet, but I leave you with the test video.

This make my day

Hello! Friends of this blog, I’m back after another long absence. Today’s post is a photo I have this week and that gave me an enormous pleasure for the result. I was hired to run a photograph of a clinic for aesthetic and theme of the campaign is to show a picture that associate a perfect skin to a touch of sophistication. In the pre-meeting photo, it was determined that the production had to be simple, not to steal the focus, which would be the beauty. With some ideas, previously filtered, which won the piece was a reminder Breakfast at Tiffany’s, it would be a good link to all the concepts you want in the campaign. Model chosen, Nathan Tabata (First), make up, production at hand, let’s set, which is the diagram below. The shoot went quickly, because everything was all oiled and then happened some thing that causes us not to abandon the profession. When the session was that moment of relaxation, the model set yet, I saw a scene that reminded me of Sharon Stone in the movie The Specialist. New positioning and a few clicks and ok! Let’s go home, it’s too late. In the following day I am called the agency and surprise! The picture would not be conveyed to the lay out, but one of the last outlets!!

This case has my respect to the Creative Director of Seabra & Terreri, Victor Seabra that inside your talent, you accept the greatness of another creation, which is not his, but that has added value to the campaign’s biggest customer.

The return

My friends! Due to problems of everyday life, let this column stopped for a long time, more there I want, but it is time to start again. Internet has its fans and enemies, but it is undeniably a valuable marketing tool and its ease of reaching thousands of people at once. This is one of the ways I found to disseminate my work, and here is link for those who want to meet you.

Inspiration for Photography

From where comes the inspiration? For each type of artist it occurs in different ways. I remember a film about Pollock, which showed that his inspiration came when he saw footprints and dripping paint falling from his brush. One of the ways that inspire me are very videos clips, with its associated images to music, that really lead me to a trip, which usually lead me to a creative start. This video is part of this collection  I worship, and apart from everything he’s still a class of photography. This videowere directed by David Finche and it format with photos of expensive editorial is a bottomless pit of inspiration.

Cover making of

A cover of a magazine is always very important for all involved, either because they leverage sales of the magazine, is the portfolio of photographer and model. Then the production details that have most often escape to readers. Then we go:

Meeting of creation: For the cover of the magazine INBOUL the creative staff has determined that the theme would be “City Vision”. What I would have to do something that would lead to a referral of large cities and that still maintain a pleasant climate.

Production: With my philosophy of trying to not complicate things, and bearing in mind the directive of creation, for choosing the particular model, which fell  on this future top model, Duda Morais, that its clean look, with her short hair, and therefore outside the standards of current models, look like the street kids. For the clothes chosen by only a shirt male, recalling the situation of modern girl who sleeps in the house of the boyfriend.

Implementation: For the photo sessions, as almost always work alone, without assistants, I have chosen a basic lighting, with only an umbrella and a gold reflector. The makeup woman Ge, has done an excellent job, with a clean makeup, that the situation demanded. I always  work with films, and I know that visor is more  i important to look digital displays, and provided with excellent work of the model, we have only 40 clicks, in more or less 30 minutes, desqualifying  the myth that in the digital age, we need 1000 images to achieve an interesting result.

Post production: Choosed 5 pictures that could give a good result, left for finalisation, made by the director of art Matheus, of retoucher company  Audace, which chose to run a background in 3d, recalling a graffiti wall , which actually completed the climate that I had imagined. Lights yellow applied to complement, basically the yellow reflector that I had applied in the photo, were made with the five test pictures chosen and the result is this:

Inspired by Chanel

One of the extensions of the work of a photographer is the direction of films and videos. After all these are just photos, which once designed a sequence of 24/30 frames per second, in the sense of forward motion. As photo, also needs a talent for environment, light and action, and many photographers have been left very well in this role, so much so that some of them never returned to the photo static. The example of today goes to photographer and director Bethina Rheims, who made a memorable film for Chanel See the film and after the making of. It is worth

Just Simple

A certain time, a lovely and these endless discussions about photography, someone told me something that profoundly marked: “The picture is as good as the story she account.” But how to do this when fashion photograph? How to flee the fighting as “hands on the waist”? This is the situation that separates the photographers. Then, to illustrate, show the example of my great friend Morgade, international renowned photographer, with his journalistic style of fashion photography. Just simple and beautiful

Be simple

After a weekend run with regard to closure of two magazines, and the cover of one of them fell in the last hour, I would write this column. Keeping the matter of simplicity I decided to do, which for a normal person would be a temerity, a image for a magazine cover using a simple camera: the Sony H9. Keeping the principle that less can be more, I chose to use only two sources of light, a light tungsten of 1000 Watts left and one of 500 watts for the hair. Also decided to use a beginner model, but where I believe much potential, (record this name: Carla Monfort). Photoshop has made the finish.However I always have in mind an exit B, because if deadline was very tight, the thing would be different with other equipment and a experienced model.Finally, the publisher and like everyone was happy. We can conclude that if we can simplify, get that complicate

Photographer or Camera.

One question that I always listen when a show work is: “What equipment did you use?”. Almost always answer, but I think this is not relevant. To run a job, the craftsman uses specific tool, no matter what condition that he perform, the important is do this work well. With photo is no different, its worth is the idea, not the equipment, because after all who does the photo is the photographer. By the way, the photo below was executed by me with a digital low-cost, even amateur, without recourse of lenses, filters and with natural light. The idea was to keep things simple and focus on a bid proposal for urban, with clothes in a local with grunge mood. With good models, good production and a briefing perfect, we arrive at a conclusion interesting.