New Striptiz portrait of Oko; Uho Multimedia Festival

For Mladina weekly I’ve done a portrait of organizers of Multimedia Festival Uho; Oko (in translation Ear; Eye). From left: Peter, jože, Melita Zajc, Marko Ornik. I used 50mm macro lens, EOS 5D, with some cropping.
Technically I needed to established a large contrast between the eye and people that are reflected in the iris. I achieve that by setting two studio flashed behind the person who’s eye was I photographing and that person had a large black piece of paper on his head. That paper blocked the light from flashes so it didn’t fall in my lens. Simple, but crucial trick.
Ups… This is an image with only four members. I lost one member with reflection
PS: Sorry for not blogging lately, but I had an eye infection, so I was avoiding computer. I did some really good lectures in Keynote, but I can’t exported in Quicktime. They issued a new version that it doesn’t work and I can’t uninstall new version of QT and reinstall old version. Let me repeat, Mac’s are not more relieble as PC7s.

wau!
Odlična ideja…kapo dol:)
LP!
Primož
Smrkec
15 September, 2008 at 13:32
opla, .. fino ti je to izpadlo, .. sem najprej mislil da si zlimal gor,.. daj malo povedati kako si slikal,.. kot mi izgleda nisi slikal v temnem prostoru,.. (ali pac) , zanima me ali si jih moral dosti dosvetliti ali niti ne oz je to mogoce celo z naravno svetlobo,… kar lep rezultat
lp
mihaaa
15 September, 2008 at 14:51
A ti to odgovori na vprašanje? Če ti kaj ni jasno, bom z veseljem odgovoril.
Technically I needed to established a large contrast between the eye and people that are reflected in the iris. I achieve that by setting two studio flashed behind the person who’s eye was I photographing and that person had a large black piece of paper on his head. That paper blocked the light from flashes so it didn’t fall in my lens. Simple, but crucial trick.
Borut Peterlin
15 September, 2008 at 16:11
… se oproscam, totalno butasto vprasanje, sem gladko spregledal, ta kljucni del, po moje bo problem to da sem pol prebral na zsfb potem pa nadaljeval tukaj, vmesni dela pa preskocil,.. vseeno hvala za pojasnilo, ker drugace bi ostalo spregledano
mihaaa
15 September, 2008 at 16:41
Sori, ker nima veze z gornjo objavo. Zgleda, da ti je RTV maznil eno fotko:
http://www.rtvslo.si/kultura/modload.php?&c_mod=rnews&op=sections&func=read&c_menu=2&c_id=44336
5R
15 September, 2008 at 18:29
hej.
fotka z RTVja je pa hitro zginla-v enem trenutku je bla,v naslednjem ne vec-enako komentar…upam da so se kaj naucili,me pa zanima,ali je fotko priskrbel RTV ali PR od Šilčeve ali kdo tretji?
LP
mb
15 September, 2008 at 19:02
Fotka je bila sneta od tukaj:
http://www.karminasilec-conductor.si/
(obarvana varianta)
Podpisana pa je bila: “Foto: Music Theatre Now”
5R
15 September, 2008 at 20:10
Sweeeeeet! Huda!
matjazz
16 September, 2008 at 00:15
Tudi meni je zelo lepa!
Blo bi mi všeč, če bi našo družinsko fotko naredil na ta način. Poznaš kakšnega fotografa, ki bi to znal ponovit?
Sicer pa mi je vizuelno prva (ko ji je 5 noter), lepša od druge.
A5
16 September, 2008 at 10:16
Se strinjam, prva boljša od druge. Sprva sploh nisem videla tvojega odseva, na drugi pa fotoaparat precej izstopa…
LP, Maja
amaroo
16 September, 2008 at 10:42
Awesome. HUDO! m
majah
17 September, 2008 at 18:31
Beautiful photos, and some of your best ever
JureF
18 September, 2008 at 01:54
A5 – rabite najprej fotografa, ki bo vseh forti5k (preberi: forti petk) zbobnal na eno mesto in potem se glavno pitanje – kdo bi pa oko doniral?
markopigac
19 September, 2008 at 00:45
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