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This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.



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Mads Bjerke said:
This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.

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Nicely done. The catchlight octagon goes well with the nature of the portrait.

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BobsYourUncle said:
Mads Bjerke said:
This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.

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Nicely done. The catchlight octagon goes well with the nature of the portrait.
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I think so, but that's a detail that I doubt that non-photographers would notice.

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Mads Bjerke said:
This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.

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This style would make an excellent album cover for a modern singer. Maybe Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.
 
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SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:
Mads Bjerke said:
This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.

View attachment e664625f7d5b4e808da847b9c434f585.jpg
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This style would make an excellent album cover for a modern singer. Maybe Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.
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Twisted Sister. :)

I can’t help but see Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.

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SeeingSomeThingsMissingMany said:
Mads Bjerke said:
This image was created in my studio with Gemma, a model I have worked with a few times.
We set out re-create an image I had seen of a girl lying in a meadow, adorned with large flowers.

The backdrop was made of leaves collected in the neighbourhood and the large flowers were added in post as I couldn't source real ones.

I set up an overhead camera rig and lit it with a very large octa box from behind her head.

Here is the image.

View attachment e664625f7d5b4e808da847b9c434f585.jpg
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This style would make an excellent album cover for a modern singer. Maybe Billie Eilish, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift.
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I am open to offers :-D



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BobsYourUncle said:
BobsYourUncle said:
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Nicely done. The catchlight octagon goes well with the nature of the portrait.
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Glad you like it.
I would have preferred a less obvious catchlight, but I needed the light to be large and soft to get that overcast natural light look.

I had to edit out the camera from the catchlight as these sensors show so much detail.



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JimKasson said:
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Tell us more about these abstracts!

Rand
 
Finally, took a few photos again with the GFX,yesterday, during a brief trip up and back to the Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Despite having other Fujis to shoot with (XH2, XT5 and X100VI) there is still something about the GFX100S that is different, especially when I decide to crop the middle out of the vertical which should have been a horizontal on the photo with the long shadows and hut.



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Harsh light no filter on 32-62



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Shadows from bridge railing
 
Rand 47 said:
Boulder, scrub . . . Eastern Sierra

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Looks like it could even be from the local mountains where "we" live.

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Beautiful set!!!
 
Striking image, especially with the color choices, but can’t get past the pupils like car headlights
 
Love the textured geometric look, ready for framing. I slightly prefer the first photo’s orange to the second photos red.
 
Striking image, but the sky seems a bit oversaturated
 
Rand 47 said:
JimKasson said:
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Tell us more about these abstracts!

Rand
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In 2012, Jack Wasserbach, who was then running ImageMakers, took me on a tour of an abandoned indoor swimming pool at Fort Ord. I spent a morning taking pictures of the graffiti. About 18 months ago, I started writing computer programs to take little square crops from the graffiti images and reassemble them into complex composites.

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Rand 47 said:
Boulder, scrub . . . Eastern Sierra

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Rand
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That's a blue whale. 🐋

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.
 
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lapdog99 said:
Finally, took a few photos again with the GFX,yesterday, during a brief trip up and back to the Grand Mesa in western Colorado. Despite having other Fujis to shoot with (XH2, XT5 and X100VI) there is still something about the GFX100S that is different, especially when I decide to crop the middle out of the vertical which should have been a horizontal on the photo with the long shadows and hut.

Horizontal crop from a vertical 4x3
Horizontal crop from a vertical 4x3
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This is it. Those lines are striking. Your monochrome treatment brings them out ever so well.

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Photography after all is interplay of light alongside perspective.
 
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