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kinda part deux of :thumb29768339: ....wouldn't you interact with someone who smiles at you?
would you give someone yelling at you a real smile?
with the fucking eyes.
ya' know ...
well ... i know i friggin' wouldn't.
people who yell at me get the c-bomb dropped. guy or girl.
doesn't matter.
like the ungrateful bastard who i got rep'd by an agency who says, "dude ... stop making her look at you. i can't get anything."
he'd probably burned through a 1gb card.
the one thing about line shooters ... they don't care about making something interesting.
just the standard eye-contact-head-shot.
or 20 of them.
so ... what did i say to the ingrate?
"there's a reason you're back there ... and ... i'm out here. trust me."
fucked up?
well ... this is hollywood.
there are alpha dogs and dogs who lay at the ground spreading their legs.
dunno why i said that.
anyway ... this 85/1.2L ... i see with it the way i see with my leica m's. different ... but much the same.
i saw washed out with backlight.
focused on her left eye.
magical bokeh of some fucked up background that ends up looking cool.
bumping the contrast.
adding some noise to the noise that's alread inherent at 800 iso.
i can't believe how much i love this lens.
sadly ... the leicas have suffered ever since the new baby arrived as it were.
Visit my prints store !
canon e1dm2. 85/1.2L. 1/500th or so. f1/2. 800 iso. converted to b/w in ps cs with custom channel mixing actions. bumped contrast. adj levels.
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Oh man, what an amazing photo.
The lighting is beautiful as well as the subject.
Your good.
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Your red carpet shots are so effing amazing. You blow me away at how you get such an intimate mood in alot of them. And they make me wonder why the hell don't I see shots like this in the magazines? But I guess that's just because all they care about are the humiliating photos.
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That's one of the best pictures I've seen of her.
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Great, I love the Jamie Foxx one too...thought I saw you both at South Coast Plaza and the Getty over the weekend, probably not though... Good work man, as usual...
-A
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You know, when most people think of the first time they saw Mischa, they think of the OC. However, she was in this movie a couple years back, and I think she played her role in that movie perfectly. I don't remember the title of it, but she played this 15-year-old girl who got caught up in this kind of Goth Cult and eventually her mom went through hell to save her "little girl". In this picture, she kind of looks like she did in some of the scenes where she was "experimenting" in the warehouse-- Way too much fucking makeup. You know, some girls need makeup, and some girls look much better without any at all (even if they think otherwise). Honestly, I don't think Mischa needs all that much.
As for the shot, as usual, very nicely done. Great lighting and use of "negative" space.
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to bokeh looks pretty neat. im wondering how the af works with that lense wide-open... should be quite unforgiving.
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quite unforgiving!
you either have or you don't ... there's no in between. 2 out of 5 ... or so ...
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i loveee this lighting. its a wonderfulll shot. all of these are. i wish i could onl compare
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grain in digital "has stripes"
since they cannot recreate the randmness of the chemical grain they are removing all noise even at high ISO, that's why you gotta add noise at 800 ISO to get this low noise effect in the web pic
can get the same results of that lens on film? or is it built for digital??
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this lens is not built for digi!
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Nice shot. I like how she's just a bit off-center and yet grabs all of my attention. Really like the way the light catches on her hair, and the expression in her eyes. She seems at once very beautiful and very human here. She seems like your pretty girl next door, or just someone "normal" for that brief moment. And yet there's the light, and there's the feel of "fame" somewhere in that background.
If there's one thing I like about your work that stands out the most, it's your tendency to capture human moments. It doesn't seem to matter whether the person is super-famous, or just a guy you snapped up a shot of while he passed you on the street. It all comes out as a show of humanity.
Maybe that's why you draw these people...the humanity instead of just "the show"? I dunno. I'm not going to presume I know, but it's just a thought.
Great stuff.
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Chris, love your writing, on both pictures today.
and i so love this picture, instant 
respect.
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Yeah, you're a fuckin' alpha dog, that's for sure. Always up front, first to feed.
If the poor sot can't get her to look at him... maybe he needs to move his position so it appears that she is looking at him... duh. Of course, then *you* are in the shot... 
They must pay a lot for those 8 shots for so many line photographers to try vying for them.
She's got that look in her eye... a real fondness for who she's looking at. Direct... it's great.
Love the washed out backlight and bokeh. It could be the full moon on foliage the way you've got it... *grin* might as well be... now there's a fantasy setting for you... Mischa, alone in a moonlit garden... smiling at you.
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it's such a gorgeous shot. the lighting, everything goes together so well.
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amazing, a lil bit blurry, but it gives it a nice effect
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oh wow, can't really discribe it into words how... I'm lovin this shot, oh yes... and I'm lovin her!!!
--
"There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die"
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I love the backlighting here. And the fact that the way she looks at the camera, and the way you've used the focus, make her seem like she's in some dreamscape with only you and her. Beautiful job, as always.
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I know this is asking alot, but you mentioned you used custom actions to convert this to bw. Could you either share them, or the process you use to convert to bw, if and when you get a chance.
I've been trying to convert to bw for quite a while using any number of techniques I've read about online, but the results are never satisfactory. The images always end up looking really flat and rather boring... of course it is entirely possible that I'm working with bad photos to begin with... but I'm going to put that obvious bit of information aside for a while.
In any case, as always, wonderful photo...
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truly one of your best !
i absolutely love it
plus she has an oustanding smile, really beautiful
you caught her SO well
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Is that... OMG! I wanna take photos like that!
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Awesome atmosphere in this photo
I realy love the depth of focus you used !
Kind regards -P
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so is the heart on your cheek in the avatar...
seriously ... i mean ... you're french.
but ... it's not that you're just french ... do you have an amelie fixation?
if so, i know a good doctor!
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Great portrait as always!
I love your comments on shots, you always makes me smile or laugh
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ah nah it was just a little game with
saying ssshhh with our avatars.
this is not to be taken seriously. and the heart was added in ps
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this one comes with me cris....
(i want THAT lens..... fuck...)
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thanks mate!
i hope you're able to acquire this lens ...
it's magic!
you won't nail every photo ... but ... the ones that you do ....
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I am so jealous of you! would love to live your life and photograph celebrities!
it might not be so glamorous at times, but talk about life experience !
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Once I get my CS2 back and running, I need to re-learn that black and white conversion technique you showed me. I do an offshoot of it that works fairly well.
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could you let me know the black and white conversion technique please? That would be really appreciated
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Absolutely. For the last two weeks, I've been fine-tuning a new black and white conversion technique that mixes what Chris told me with something that Richard Avedon once used.
I did this photo yesterday with it: [link]
Feel free to IM me on AIM sometime!
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dude is that the version of conversion we were talking about?
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I think so. Chris showed me a while back but I only picked up some points in it. He seems wicked busy these days, but I'm gonna see if he can write up a tutorial for us.
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was his technique to use the pretty much only red channel in channel mixer? It's how most of my B&Ws are done.
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I don't know. I honestly forget; I'm not good at the technique one bit.
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for decent blowouts, softer more pleasing skin effects but pale lippy on the girls all red channel, if you want harsher and harder lines on faces, mix through more green or blue and drop the red back. Either way, as a general rule, unless you're after big blowouts, keep it to around 100% between all the channels.
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My CS2 is down!
I was about to drop a image in and test out what you say.
Fate despises me.
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Aye. But I'm gonna be shooting a model this week and I wanna use that technique to convert to black and white.
By the way, do you use AIM or MSN?
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I use elffinarts as an msn tag.
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