{"id":362,"date":"2017-10-16T10:20:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T10:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radoslawpujan.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2017-10-20T22:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T22:37:00","slug":"kate_viki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radoslawpujan.com\/blog\/kate_viki\/","title":{"rendered":"Kate & Viki"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favourite photographers is Ellen von Unwerth. She worked as a fashion model for ten years herself before moving behind the camera. Nowadays she is making fashion and editorial photographs, working for top magazines. I appreciate her photos that have this elegant and classy style resembling Helmut Newton. However, what I feel is unique in her work, is that Ellen’s models are living, they are real, expressing lots of emotions. I often go back to her photographs; it brings me joy seeing them again and again. Hah, the only limited series book I have in my library is her photo album – “The story of Olga”. As the photos compounded in it, cannot be found anywhere else, I had to have it. From all this adoration, I have decided to create something, which will have a similar feel as her works.<\/p>\n

While I was on photo meetings in Michalowice <\/a>(Poland) I have decided to give it a try. One of my favourite models – Kate was there. She has a natural playfulness about her, a real actress in front of a camera – she would be perfect for this role. I needed the second girl with a similar height and beauty type.
\nThere was a beautiful girl called Vicky. She came there as a stylist and a fashion designer. Luckily I have managed to convince her to be my model for this project.<\/p>\n

I usually shoot with one of my medium format cameras, however this time I needed a small format as I was planning to get this grainy film look. I wanted to make them a bit blurry as well, to add some aliveness and motion. Grain and movement will also divert attention from details, and thanks to those emotions I wanted to show will surface in the final image. Because of this, I could not use my medium format camera. I have borrowed a Canon EOS-3 from my friend. Automatic and quite modern camera for me, but thanks to that I was able to use some 35mm film. At the same time, I was able to treat it more as an experiment, by shooting many photos at different times (exposure), not worrying much about the number of frames that will be bad.<\/p>\n

As I did not have any 35mm films, I exchanged two of my 120mm rolls for 36 exposures Ilford Delta and HP5+. Additionally, I have loaded one Ilford Hp5+ to my medium format camera. Equipment ready.<\/p>\n

If you want to have a blurry photo, that will be good and readable at the same time, you need to have two things – a long exposure, and more important – high contrasts<\/strong>. To make this I required heavy makeup around the eyes, lips, cheekbones. So smokey eyes and purple lipstick is the way to go. Another essential element is a spot for the shooting. What I was looking for were a dark background and a good front light. Together with my models, we have found few places like that. I have shot at 400 ISO, and exposure times between 1\/2 sec – 1\/50sec. We have tried different stylization from Vicky, and some of my items.<\/p>\n

Few jokes and stories made my models look playful and natural. I told them the roles I had in mind for the scenes, and soon enough they were in actress mode.<\/strong>
\nThey took what I said and moved it forward, making it their own, coming up with new ideas. I just had to comment from time to time to fix hair, hands, shape of silhouettes. I was walking around them, with my cameras, looking for an interesting light and a proper composition. Turning their faces to play with a light and get a good graphical effect, but at the same time to keep the scene natural, and most important to show that they are together, and that relationship is strong.<\/p>\n

Three first photos were taken with Hasselblad using 110mm lens. The rest with Canon 3d and some 50mm lens.<\/p>\n

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