well if you dont know who this is then you have not looked through my portfolio enough. Sofia and I were shooting at various spots around down town Tacoma. I wanted to shoot by the glass museum but was forced away as they were shooting a movie there. I accidently found this place and immediately fell in love with it as a backdrop. looking through my shots you can see Sofia growing up over the last few years and this shot just blows me away.
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lens correction,dodge/burn,kodak air brush,hue sat
[Dec. 6th, 2008 01:34:19 PM]
i'm cracking up reading how people just cant connect the bridge and the model, i could make up a few stories for this scene although honestly i had no story in mind when i shot it
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Care to enlighten those of us that are a little slow about the significance of the bridge Jason? Is it the bridge to her growing up? Wow, I can't believe Sofia ScooterMcNutty is a 15 year old! She looks like a model. She has really matured in the past couple of years and I'm sure has a great future ahead of her. Kailey is pretty cool too. Good job, but until I see an explanation my (and other peoples) comment below still stands. ;-)
ok....are you guys ready? is everyone sitting down? have you put the kids to bed? here is the story:THERE IS NO FREAKIN STORY!!!! lol seriously we were out shooting in Tacoma and I just really like the underside of the bridge as a backdrop, i liked the randomness of someone all made up standing under a bridge in the inner city. when i was getting these comments during the voting i was thinking "man, if this was one of those bizarre ads in vogue magazine people would think the photographer was brilliant"
As for the title, it was just the first thing that came to mind, basically just the two main elements in the shot, thats all :)
Care to enlighten those of us that are a little slow about the significance of the bridge Jason? Is it the bridge to her growing up? Wow, I can't believe Sofia ScooterMcNutty is a 15 year old! She looks like a model. She has really matured in the past couple of years and I'm sure has a great future ahead of her. Kailey is pretty cool too. Good job, but until I see an explanation my (and other peoples) comment below still stands. ;-)
Your model is just gorgeous, but the bridge just doesn't fit in IMHO. Nice lighting. If you had a very shallow DOF or more plain background it would be much nicer.
Nice soft lighting, nice dof, great composition. I prefer portraits with a little more life in them, she seems very plastic/stoic in this, almost like a doll. Maybe that's what you were going for though.
This is quite good. I like the way her skin has rendered, a like the catchlight in her eyes. However, I feel that the pose is very 'forced' and the background could have been thrown into some nicer 'bokeh'. I will certainly come back to this after the challenge and take another look.
Great dof and spot on focus. I like how she is almost looking at the camera, I find myself looking over my left shoulder to try to see what she is looking at!
I'm not sure why the bridge is important... It seems an odd backdrop (especially if one ignores the title), but she's well lit and almost doll like in the processing. It makes me think of a video game for some reason. She's quite beautiful. (not voting yet)
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