THE FIRST Steemit Professional Photoshooting - Backstage photos included!!! - Whale - Dolphin shoot too!!
Hello Steemians...Manthos again...
Photography section is nice on Steemit, but it lacks originallity... and genuinity..
So i decided to make a photoshooting, especially for steemit this time... :)
First of all lets talk about what is needed... in order to make a professional photoshooting..
- Imagination - mood for creativity... love for what you do.
2)Some decent gear... Nikon and Canon rule this field for the moment... no difference between them. - Some models!! Thats easy to find when you work in photography field.
- A make up artist.. It might look overexaggerating... but a make up artist can fix something in one minute... that it would take you ages in photoshop to fix in post-production.
5)Its not a one man job... 2-3 people at least to make the best teamwork
6)Location is important.. but using a sharp eye... every location is perfect
Thats the main sum up.. of whats needed...
Lets talk about what gear we used...
We didnt choose Nikon for a specific reason... Sometimes you start with something, you buy lenses.. and then its hard to change a brand.. and start from the beggining... Its all about composing a good picture.. and having a good eye... some talent included too...
Our gear for the photoshooting was:
Nikon D800 for then main part of shooting --36mpixels is perfect for fashion...
Nikon D3 for the backstage shooting -- 12mpixels, amazing fast focus, and super fast continuous shooting.. good for sports photography.
Nikon D750 for the video backstage shooting -- Low light monster, and great colours out of the box.
Lenses:
Nikon 28-70mm f2.8 non VR
Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 non VR
Tokina 16-28mm f2.8
Nikon 85mm f1.8
Nikon 50mm f1.8
Lights - Strobes - Flashes
Elinchrom Ranger Rx battery pack... With 1100watt Flash head...
(Elinchrom 1100 watt flash head is a perfect head that can overpower the sun... but its main disadvantage is that its heavy in carrying it arround locations..)
The Tshirts, were printed... One of our girl had bigger shoulders and we ended up going to make a bigger tshirt... :)
We had a whale-dolphin with us too....
Ssshhh i cannot reveal his name... He just wanted some shots with the girls... thats it!
Its pretty important... to have the best mood, backstage mentality must be cheerfull... no loud voices.. or nerves... Models must be relaxed... and stress free...
Lets take a look on what happened yesterday..
We went to a beach bar...where the photoshooting would take place.
Some make up... in the colors of steemit of course!! The Power of the Blue!
Our beautifull Girls... Zoe and Constance
http://instagram.com/haneibani
http://instagram.com/constance.jk
Our make up artist - Valentina
check out her work here...
http://instagram.com/valentina_karapanou_
The anonymous whale!!
Our loved.. hard working ranger...
Constance is manipulating the whale... or its a dolphin?
Zoe here... well.. :)
Ok i already made this post long... Lets Get going to the good stuff....
Thats all for now...
My main wish if for steemit, to become well known in the fashion world too.. steemit accessories, steemit tshirts, bags, shoes... This part of the world economy.. is on of the largests... And with the rewarding system everyone will have the incentive to work harder and better...
Every fashion designer could post his work, and get rewarded.. or even fashion eshops could appear... and accept steem or any other kinds of payments...There are so many uses of steemit, and it can go deep, very deep inside the fashion world... Kickstart new talents, promote really good models, even give advice to people who want to join this world.. withs its bad and good things...
Thats all for now steemians... i will upload a dropbox link here... with more photos... cause i didnt edit them all yet...
All the above finallized images were of course through photoshop and lightroom!
Feel free to download the photos and re use them... We need people to know every aspect of steemit.
Special thanks to @steemychicken1 for his help in the backstage photoshooting-videoshooting and advising.
P.s the whale wants to remain anonymous :P or it was a dolphin?
Cool stuff. Hey, maybe you should apply to be the man who will shoot an official Steemit promotional video. Worth tagging @dan and other whales?
@manthostsakirid I like this photo
Okay, Vote Done !!!
I like this girl!
@claudiop63, yeah I agree with you, @manthostsakirid, I also will wait for your creative ideas next ..
Thank you @claudiop63 i can't tag them! I dont know them, my team shot the video im just the photographer
But they did a great job
By tagging I mean quoting them with @ symbol in front, which you can do for any Steemer :-)
yeah very good stuff, help me i don't know how to add a video on my post
lol, but great!
can you please stop licking the asshole of the whales?
very nice...
Wow , great photo shoot , shame you insulted everyone else in photography category with this :
Now let's talk about genuinity....you took 2 professional models (easy to find since you are working in the field) that had no idea about steem...and you are telling me that they where genuine ?
Now originality....steemit, dolphins, lovely location...yup much wow , such originality.
Now dont get me wrong, i love the photo shot, and the video, and the wet tshirt, and i am not contesting your skills as a photographer....but i am calling you out on your choice of words.
Hi! This post has a Flesch-Kincaid grade level of 9.5 and reading ease of 73%. This puts the writing level on par with Michael Crichton and Mitt Romney.
I really think there may be more truth here than most people realize.
Nice trick
High-quality photos... but there is no imagination / creativity (paragraph 1 from your list). Dolphins. Steemit t-shirts. Too trite and predictable.
No offense. Just IMHO.
Agreed
But there is time, effort and original content and not copy and paste in order to make a quick buck. We need to promote more users to, at least, take the risk of making new content. Sure it isn't portfolio quality work, but how can we blame the photographers and models here for that? It's not like they knew ahead of time what they were going to get paid for their work.
I would say, "If you can do better, then don't complain", but I don't think that argument is worth a crap when others use it. However, please make sure that you are doing the same with whatever your content might be in the future. Sometimes in order to get paid for your work, you have to put high concept and imagination to the side and be simple and effective. This is basic commercial fashion photography we are talking about here and not the cover of a highbrow photos for photographers magazine.
Anyway, thanks for your opinion. Can't say I disagree entirely, just wanted to add some extra perspective.
Cheers
also add to that using the female body as token... I personally find this very tasteless and uninspired. it's the same shit with games and using booth-babes at events.. so unfortunate.
This is a start of sorts, hopefully more photographers can see that original work is being rewarded and next time a more creative and unique photoshoot will get properly rewarded so more photographers will take the risk.
As I've pointed out many times elsewhere, it's the whales that dictate what is worth emulating. If they are willing to upvote something that is more challenging to our sensibilities, the smaller fish will know that it's ok to upvote that material as well. The cycle can then continue as more posts can see that their time isn't wasted if they want to do something similar.
Cheers
I still have issues with the idea that global taste is dictated by the few... it feels like a simulation of real life here... =/
and yes, 'willing' is the keyword there..