Shooting 13.
Added 2021-09-15 07:30:01 +0000 UTCShooting number 13 with Martina was really special.
I was selecting some pictures a couple of days ago for my regular social media feed (you are going to see in the weeks to come) and I noticed we had managed to create a dramatic mood in this Milan apartment.
Her black hair and subtle make-up, together with the spotlight we were moving around worked wonders.
Pity for the high ISO and the graininess of some pictures, but after all it ads up to the grunge look and is not entirely out of place.
Technology is running fast and, although I'm better off now from my Leica M240 period, these pictures show that even the updated sensor of the Lumix S1 has some limits at higher ISO...
Let's see how it goes with my new job, but I might consider some changes in my photographic toolkit in the near future.
The money coming from Patreon is devoted to models and shootings only, so any upgrade in photo gear has to be absorbed by my main income, fortunately this appears to have settled down at the moment, and the new occupation is gaining traction.
I can see a BSI sensor in my future, and less noisy pictures...
Comments
I hope you'll pardon my absurd suggestion that Martina in this provocative photograph reminds me of both Samson and Delilah. One of them pulls down two necessary pillars at the crotch of the Temple of Dagon, and the other seduces the hairy strong man away from his power and snatches him baldheaded. I guess I was a child the first time I learned of this story and envisioned the two pillars as a couple of barber's poles with red & blue helical stripes -- long before anyone mentioned the shape of the DNA polypeptide sequence and long before the Coen brothers (George M. and Zen) made one of my favorite films, "The Man Who Wasn't There" -- about yet another mad barber who wasn't Sweeny Todd. 'Scuse me, while I shave my meds. https://www.rogerdeakins.com/
Scott Keith Ellington
2021-09-20 19:37:40 +0000 UTC
