Her name is Aldis Arnardóttir, first time modeling for me for DPC. Wasn´t going to enter this challenge but then I saw that earlier today only about 60 people had submitted so I thought I should give it a go and called Aldis and she was able to come model for me on short notice. This was the best I could think of, took a shot with the same theme a long time ago for the "three" challenge. Taken pretty last minute or about 11:00 pm on june 27th.
Lit with a bowens esprit head and a 75° softlite reflector and ambient lighting. Post processing was really just standard raw conversion, adjusting WB, contrast and saturation + curves and sparpening in photoshop.
Well yeehaw! Didn´t really expect a ribbon but I sure was hunting for one, if there had been more entries in this challenge I don´t know if I had bothered going out shooting this but I am glad I did :) Mental note, next time use daisys, what the heck is a daisy anyway? Oh and I disagree with comments about the composition, if anything, that is the thing I like the best about this photo but as always, respect and grateful for everyones comments.
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Ok Icelander, you've been hogging up all the ribbons, lol J/K, you deserve it, this is just one more supa sweet photo, nice work, I'm sure you'll keep it up
Tilhamingju hehe þetta er magnað hjá þér og mér finnst þetta BARA æðislegt..Framfarirnar hjá þér eru orðnar þannig að þú ert nánast alltaf í topp 10 sem er miklu betra en þú þorðir sjálfsagt sjálfur að vona...
So glad you chose a centered composition, I think people are so cracked up on 'rules of thirds' anything that doesn't have it seems wrong to them. It's mystical admist all this scenary.
I really dig that lighting look you get with the bowens too, really professional.
Wondeful, very glad this ribboned. Congratulations Larus :)
Might I add I had a hunch this was yours, that sounds like such a deja vu to you already doesn't it ;)
Til hamingju með þetta. Þessi mynd minnir mig mikið á vinningmynd í sumarkeppni Vikunar (fyrir 20+ árum), en hún var tekin eins, en með strák og stelpu að kissast.
Great picture Lárus. You hereby prooved that even the least interesting things/flowers can look good if you only put your mind to it. Well done as always :o)
Þú ert meistarinn! Það verður ekki tekið af þér að þú hefur náð ótrúlegum árangri hvað varðar notkun á ljósum og hönnun á lýsingu. Glæsileg mynd! Kveðja, Hrannar
Now this is much more interesting than the other shots dealing with this superstition. It adds a lot more depth and emotion to have a real human being there. Good job, this is a great shot.
The superstition involved in this photograph is one of trepidation, it involves two starkly different possibilities being left up to chance (the superstition being, of course, that this chance is actually fate). But that drama is missing from this photograph. Without the title, it's impossible to tell what she is doing. She seems to be merely admiring a flower, just as the photographer is merely admiring her.
Must be a Canadian thing. Never used a lupine for that. Anyway, your model is lovely, and your detail is really good on the face and hair. I like the darker background with just hints of lupines coming through in the out of focus technique.
Love the DOF in this. Would have made a great Bokeh entry. The only thing different I would have liked would be to have your model slightly off center. Still a beautiful shot.
That's a field of lupins. The daisy is the flower to which this saying refers. You can't pick lupin petals like you can from around a daisy flower. It is a very nice photo though. How about, "Flowers take your breath away." Alluding to the old superstition that flowers placed in the room of a sick person removed the oxygen from the air thereby hastening the demise of the patient?
Lovely pic.. though I'm not too sure the pic should go towards the back. The forground should have been in the back.. Makes more interest since the back space seems wasted. still nice catch:)
Ah, where are those fields with such angels in them? Any within M25? I think the lore has it with camomile-based plants, but with this chick I am ready to accept bending the rules.
Well I don't know if that's the kind of flower you usually use, but it's a really nice shot anyway. I think a slightly tighter composition (to avoid the OOF top seeming like so much) would have improved it even more.
This is a stunning photograph, though not the most original idea. Well done though. My only criticism (and this is a bit picky!) is that I immediately noticed the wedding ring on her hand, so the idea of "he loves me, he loves me not" is a bit strange - presumably he does!. I'm not one to vote low just because a shot has been "shoehorned" into a challenge though, so I'm voting high for this - it's one of my favourites.
Adorable dress =) If that brown part on the dress was purple, it would be that much better for the picture, but that would be too perfect of a find. 7.
I've never seen "she loves me, she loves me not " done with this type of flower usually the kind whose petals stick out to the side but this is a beautiful photo. great DOF
He loves me, he loves me not
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