One A Day, Day 182: These are part of the plan, ideas for Easter Bunny Time. Yes Easter (or among Pagans, Oster Time!) is here. Most of the rabbits are not bunnies, run rabbit run!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

These are part of the plan, ideas for Easter Bunny Time. Yes Easter (or among Pagans, Oster Time!) is here. Most of the rabbits are not bunnies, run rabbit run!

I've been looking and waiting to hear from other Hogs as to what/how the Easter Garden Session with the Ginger Angle should go. So far no in put, not even a snicker, nor peep.

Just bashful I guess then.

So I though may be some 'old' ideas? It's ok if you look at the set with new eyes. Try something new, a different point of view, because new can make some new challenges. SO, we start with the old to bring in the new.

So reaching back, we begin at the end of the old. Water and soft curvy necked female forms.

The subject is Liz Ashly. It is rather difficult to do poor images of Liz, but during this small group session, even Liz noted that most of the 'captures' weren't great.

Number three is good, but the last three are pure Liz at the top of her form.

Soap like lava! Watch them suds!

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Loads of water, but Liz is NOT a Golden Retriever!

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thephotoman Loc: Rochester, NY

Timmers, this is a lovely series of photos. My favorite is #3. I like the way you stopped the water as it was being poured. All of the photos are very good.

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

I promised that I would not comment on your posts, but there are very well done. Kudos.

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Excellent!!!

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

All great, and #2 is such a wonderful action shot... dynamic. The introduction vegetation, lower left, adds to the composition. great work as usual.

Stephan G

Timmers wrote:

These are part of the plan, ideas for Easter Bunny... (show quote)

This 'old' does go back a few millennia.

The pairing will not go out of style any time.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

Much better than your usual.

chip94 Loc: Massachusetts

Great series!!

Bill Golden Loc: Briarcliff NY

Great photos

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Stephan G wrote:

This 'old' does go back a few millennia.

The pairing will not go out of style any time.

I see a lot of posts on here of new by type models that would good medical/dental advertisements for studies in root canal surgery. Then one runs across images with models like these by a brilliant and accomplished woman/model like Liz Ashly. It is difficult to make poor images of a model like Liz. Yes, it is possible, these are some fine examples of ho-hum work.

Liz is still traveling in the US especially in the Southern States, but of late she told me she just is not getting enough work. Think, for $100 per hour you could work with one of the great legends of the internet model era!

One of the comments made was the introduction of foliage into the session. It was a good comment (not for some 'compositional' element) it helped set the stage for this as a garden/exterior set of images. This adds to the erotic content/potential of a certain voyeur content. This is often under played. It reminds me of one of the stories that VADA told me of how dressed in nothing but her high heels she took her husband a tall iced drink into the back yard, planted it on his sweaty back for a reaction, yes she got it! While he aggressively began making it with him, she caught a glimpse of her old neighbour watch from the tall plants next door. Totally turn on for her! She flipped Jason on his back and mounted him so the guy could see her humping hubby like in a cheap triple X film. She had a blast! In the end she got up and turned in that direction of the garden, smiled and scolded him with her waging finger while laughing!

So now that I am playing in Pandora's Box, there was a comment in Post 181 of One A Day. It was a dumb posts pointing out that one could do the 'soft focus effect' in post. It is a stupid comment because it fly's in the face of one of the great corner stones of creative photography, namely, both, Cartier-Bresson's "The Decisive Moment" and that deep concept called "Visualization".

What makes visualization so powerful is that the photographer has engaged though before making images. So if the artist smears goop in front of a lens and then considers how this alters the image then they are involving visualization. Placement is everything for such an image. So directing final aspects of the models body placement is often critical in arranging the goop before the lens, I think Guccione was thinking this as smeared and arranged the model in creating the images he made.

Any way, when making these images I'm using interested in the look water has on the skin. The image where I say Liz is not a golden retriever is because of the motion stopping effect of flash. To combine shutter speed to catch water flowing is important in these type of images. Having too high a shutter speed does not allow the water to move on the surface of skin or in the air. Natural effects can be gotten when needed. It is like making a landscape where the shutter is 1/10 second or higher, less there be the effect of motion in the moon. Slow shutter speeds can have an effect on the visualization of water flowing over the surface of the skin. After all te only restriction we have technically is to loose sync at too high a speed, while lover speeds mat add the ambient element to our image. And keep in mind you can always 'chimp' a test exposure(s) to determine the best exposure.

BboH Loc: s of 2/21, Ellicott City, MD

Quite an enjoyable series.

Stephan G

Timmers wrote:

I see a lot of posts on here of new by type models that would good medical/dental advertisements for studies in root canal surgery. Then one runs across images with models like these by a brilliant and accomplished woman/model like Liz Ashly. It is difficult to make poor images of a model like Liz. Yes, it is possible, these are some fine examples of ho-hum work.

Liz is still traveling in the US especially in the Southern States, but of late she told me she just is not getting enough work. Think, for $100 per hour you could work with one of the great legends of the internet model era!

One of the comments made was the introduction of foliage into the session. It was a good comment (not for some 'compositional' element) it helped set the stage for this as a garden/exterior set of images. This adds to the erotic content/potential of a certain voyeur content. This is often under played. It reminds me of one of the stories that VADA told me of how dressed in nothing but her high heels she took her husband a tall iced drink into the back yard, planted it on his sweaty back for a reaction, yes she got it! While he aggressively began making it with him, she caught a glimpse of her old neighbour watch from the tall plants next door. Totally turn on for her! She flipped Jason on his back and mounted him so the guy could see her humping hubby like in a cheap triple X film. She had a blast! In the end she got up and turned in that direction of the garden, smiled and scolded him with her waging finger while laughing!

So now that I am playing in Pandora's Box, there was a comment in Post 181 of One A Day. It was a dumb posts pointing out that one could do the 'soft focus effect' in post. It is a stupid comment because it fly's in the face of one of the great corner stones of creative photography, namely, both, Cartier-Bresson's "The Decisive Moment" and that deep concept called "Visualization".

What makes visualization so powerful is that the photographer has engaged though before making images. So if the artist smears goop in front of a lens and then considers how this alters the image then they are involving visualization. Placement is everything for such an image. So directing final aspects of the models body placement is often critical in arranging the goop before the lens, I think Guccione was thinking this as smeared and arranged the model in creating the images he made.

Any way, when making these images I'm using interested in the look water has on the skin. The image where I say Liz is not a golden retriever is because of the motion stopping effect of flash. To combine shutter speed to catch water flowing is important in these type of images. Having too high a shutter speed does not allow the water to move on the surface of skin or in the air. Natural effects can be gotten when needed. It is like making a landscape where the shutter is 1/10 second or higher, less there be the effect of motion in the moon. Slow shutter speeds can have an effect on the visualization of water flowing over the surface of the skin. After all te only restriction we have technically is to loose sync at too high a speed, while lover speeds mat add the ambient element to our image. And keep in mind you can always 'chimp' a test exposure(s) to determine the best exposure.

I see a lot of posts on here of new by type models... (show quote)

And then there are those Non-Sequitur .

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Or as Mr. Natural said to Flaky Foon, When ol' Flaky asked Mr. Natural, "What it all means?"
To which Mr. Natural replied, "Don't mean shit".

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

jaymatt wrote:

Much better than your usual.

Why do you keep repeating your same dull posts, back to sleep!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Stephen! What happened to your avatar? Loos it? I liked seeing it, too bad, nice touch.