Rita III

Rita III is submitted as 'Fine Art', but listed as 'Nude' to satisfy

listing requirements which act as a 'filter'. Your good faith

comments and critiques are invited and most welcome. If you rate

harshly or very critically, please submit a helpful and constructive

comment; please share your superior photographic knowledge to help

improve my photography. Please do not make this a plebiscite on

whether or not you like/dislike Rita/and or this should be a

glamour/nude photograph, although you may want to comment on that.

(Other posted photos in this 'fine art' folder are of Rita also.)

Thanks! Enjoy! John

I enjoy the framing of her breast by the black string necklace thing. And also the contrast of blonde hair with string, and of white background to her bottom and r. hand. It's a very playful yet sensual photograph.

Rita is a professional model who helps me find models, comforts them, does their makeup, styles them and when they have gone, we take a few photos of her -- she simply is outstanding before the camera, either as a glamour model or as a 'fine art' model. She's extraordinarily good humored and very, very smart and ambitious. I like her very much, (as a person and co-worker, not more) . . . we lead our separate lives, but Rita is very empathetic and not 'hard' at all -- to the contrary; she's also a university student, and I'll put my money on her success any day.

 

John (Crosley)

John, reviewing your entire portfolio, I think "B&W, Then to Now" is your strongest work. You have an eye for the street to be sure.

 

This image of Rita, beautfully formed though she is, I don't find appealing. There is a flatness to the tones and a granularity (or lack of fine focus?) that robs it of dimensionality.

This was shot at 1250 iso, which accounts for exactly the qualities you are noting.

 

I am not content to 'follow the pack' and continually experimenting.

 

When Rita helps me with a model during our various sessions (which I seldom if ever post), she sometimes will do a little modeling for me, and this is the result.

 

She's so natural in front of the camera, speaks pretty darn good English, is so good humored (even when stark naked) and without guile, that working with her is a joy and a bonus -- she enjoys these 'bonus' sessions, and in fact comes prepared for them if she comes to work with a particular model. (not often these past two weeks, as I've been in Kiev, shooting politics and Kiev models, (and socializing -- see 'Black and White from Then to Now' last post.)

 

I'm the kind of guy who'll see a good form and know that I can replicate it with a lower iso, and so I may post it though shot with a high iso, as here, just to share, and also to experiment.

 

It doesn't suggest lack of ability on my part; just the opposite; I know how to lower my iso, but in these situations, sometimes Rita's overzealous boyfriend, who at half my age should know better, gets anxious that she's in my apartment alone with me, and the phone calls start, so we work 'FAST', and a high iso helped here.

 

Thanks for the compliment on my 'street' work. You never really have seen my 'female' work; it's on hard drives and never been shown, really except for a scattered portrait here or there. I don't want to confuse.

 

I noted that John Peri also doesn't want to confuse. He shoots and posts nudes and semi-nudes and also children but seldom posts the children (and other subjects) to avoid confusion (and any attached stigma, I think, for the kids or their parents).

 

Wise move.

 

I learn from people like John.

 

K.I.S.S.

 

Keep it simple, stupid.

 

I have probably the most varied portfolio on this service, yet even I hold back some work in a genre or two, unless I have something interesting I want to share.

 

I don't generally shoot flowers (but see my bumblebee in the Watsonia in my single photo color folder), or children (that you'd know), and you seldom see my landscapes or women, but I assure you I shoot most of them when I can.

 

I just like 'street' and the associations it brings, since few do it well who have remained on this service -- most have left, unhappy with the reception they've received. Me, I'm very happy, and who gives a hoot about ratings, anyway?

 

Thanks for the feedback; you're right on point in one way at least.

 

By the way, the photo began as a silhouette, and was lightened to the present state - it's a great silhouette, also, with just some skin tones and shadows; a worthy photo by itself and somewhat different. It was my whim to lighten it; another day it might have remained more of a silhouette.

 

John (Crosley)

John,

 

This is a wonderful photo just like the hundreds of others you have posted here. If there's anything at all I find distracting is the left portion of the window for some reason the sharp "L" angle draw my attention away from the model. Thanks for sharing your photos and the words behind the them. I'm learning quite a bit from them.

 

I began to comment and the comments have just grown naturally into an attraction by themselves. Thanks for the kind thought and recognition.

 

I cannot rebuild the building -- it's pretty solid -- build to last several hundred years, though very ugly - slumlike from the outside if the truth be told, but nice and Western inside. It's a luxury window, too, European style with vinyl frame. Sorry the corner detracts -- why are you looking at the window corner when Rita's framed there?

 

I never in a million years would be looking there, when Rita's got her clothes off in front of me.

 

;~)

 

John (Crosley)

 

 

one of your best

I'm surprised.

 

I don't consider nudes my strength at all, and of the series of three with Rita I consider this the least of the three.

 

I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla (and sometimes strawberry).

 

I do value your opinion, but I am baffled, frankly. This just took a second to take, while I was shooting another model, as did the other several of Rita -- just a few 'for fun' all in a few minutes.

John (Crosley)

so maybe not one of your best; I like it that's all. I guess I am the strawberry.