Re: [Leica] Clementine

[Alastair Firkin <firkin@ncable.net.au>]

>I have been very close to this young lady since she was three in an almost
>surrogate father capacity, and she has just asked me to do some nudes of her
>for her boyfriends birthday.

Lucky boyfriend ;-)

http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1035127

>She is now 17 and it was a very strange
>situation for me to be in, it was almost like photographing my own daughter
>in the nude. I have posted my favourite here, and I understand that she was
>very pleased. I shot a roll of 36 and she chose 8 to give him which isn't a
>bad average. I wanted to keep things as simple as possible so I just shot
>with her on her mothers bed with the R8 and 28-70 set at 5.6. The light was
>a Metz54MZ3 on camera and bounced into the ceiling. The camera was set on
>'P'. I am not sure who was more embarrassed whenn she took her clothes off,
>me or her!

Especially if you are not used to doing nude photography. I know you 
are not looking for comments, but I would have ditched the watch: 
spoils the beautiful line a bit for me.

Cheers and here's luck
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Alastair Firkin

http://www.afirkin.com

http://www.familyofman2.com

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