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Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 33: The fashion world comes to Almere
From: philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)
Date: Sun Aug 28 02:56:22 2005

The dog shot is really nice, Nathan. You see the hunger in its eyes, and I
lover the colors in it, too.

The pool shoot series is nice to look at, too, but I guess that is mostly
because I recognize alot of the shooting setting from my work. Any results
of your friend's shoot yet?

Thanks for showing,
Philippe


> From: Nathan Wajsman <nathan.wajsman@planet.nl>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 11:13:24 +0200
> To: LEG <leica@freelists.org>, Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: [Leica] Nathan's PAW 33: The fashion world comes to Almere
> 
> Week 33 was a nice week for me: my sister from Poland was visiting, so I
> only worked 2 days, and spent the rest of the time showing her around
> the Netherlands. At the same time, some interesting stuff happened at
> home, so the mix of images reflects it.
> 
> My dog likes food, as does everyone else in this family. And I always
> have my camera at hand. My sister had cooked, the weather was nice so we
> ate in the garden, and the dog was checking things out from her
> customary position under the table:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33.jpg
> 
> This is what piqued her interest, a typical Polish dish, pierogi, with
> the requisite stuff to wash it down:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt1.jpg
> 
> Then a couple of images from our trips around the country. In the small
> lovely town of Gorinchem I spotted this child waiting for his mother
> outside a shop, and inspired by Don's recent "waiting" series, snapped 
> this:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt2.jpg
> 
> This one is a street conversation in Amsterdam, near the red light 
> district:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt3.jpg
> 
> Thursday was one of the two days I did work. When I came home, I found a
> full-fledged photo shoot taking place in my garden (or, more precisely
> in and around our pool). Our neighbor Felix was shooting an assignment
> for GQ involving some obscenely expensive male underwear, and had
> decided on a watery theme--hence the use of our pool. Here is Felix in
> action on our back porch:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt4.jpg
> 
> The basic setup was that the models (there were two guys) would pose in
> the pool:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt5.jpg
> and then my wife and my son would pour water on the model from each side
> because Felix wanted some kind of waterfall effect:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt6.jpg
> As is obvious from the above image, it is not easy for the model to keep
> his eyes open and otherwise hold the pose in those circumstances, so the
> shot would be re-taken, and then again and again and...This was a
> reasonably nice summer day, and the water in our pool is heated to 24-26
> C, but we are after all talking Holland here, so after a while the model
> would be visibly cold:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/paw/2005/2005_33alt7.jpg
> I certainly got an appreciation of how hard these guys and gals actually
> work during a shoot.
> 
> For those interested in seeing more, I have put up a separate gallery of
> that here:
> http://www.fotocycle.dk/indexmodel.html
> 
> The complete PAW index is at:
> http://www.nathanfoto.com/indexpaw2005.html
> and comments and critique are as always gratefully accepted.
> 
> Nathan
> 
> -- 
> Nathan Wajsman
> Almere, The Netherlands
> 
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> 
> 
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