Marketa (What a gorgeous name)

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Originally from the Republic of Czechoslovakia Marketa volunteed to sit one evening, approximately three weeks ago.
With a lightmeter reading of 9.5 EV she was photographed at f11 with a Hasselblad, and captured on Fujichrome 64T reversal

Hi Joseph, I like the composition here with the model, chair and strong shadows, but I think that I would have preferred to see her mouth and have the rose maybe a bit closer to her shoulder. Also there seems to be a few eye catching bits in the background that could easily be cloned out, like on the left middle of image and something being seen though the stool.

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I love the pose but find myself being distracted by the amount of light on her legs, esp near her ankles..feel it need to be darker or at least softer. good work for shooting 64T though. havent used that myself for years....i do miss my velvia though..

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Hi Barry,....... can't say I was a happy with this as I thought I would be. As it looked a lot better with the eye than it came out. And I guess that your right, I should have cloned the mark on the left in the background, I did think about the power socket under the chair for a while, and thought well it's part of the studio so left it.
And yes I do have plenty of shots with both her mouth and without the flower, but I had to mark a choice of just one photo and so I chose this one at the time....but thanks for commenting.



Hello Andy, I liked the pose too just for something different. Yes in hindsight I think that the light was a little too strong, especially the way in which it hit the back of her arm and the floor, it was a big light (2kw) and it was softened with transluscent trancing film as well, as I said to Barry I was expecting it to came out better than it actually did, but we ae expecting to get a soft box soon. I always like to hear your view tho.



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Hi Barry,....... can't say I was a happy with this as I thought I would be. As it looked a lot better with the eye than it came out. And I guess that your right, I should have cloned the mark on the left in the background, I did think about the power socket under the chair for a while, and thought well it's part of the studio so left it.
And yes I