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Accompanying the couple through their wedding day and to photograph wedding documentaries is not very new. The new part was to just to jump into to busy street life in Berlin, walking down Alexander street and Unter den Linden just with them. We escaped the wedding party and made it to the streets.
The intended style was colour- and cheerful with bright, full colours and the shining sun light to add to the joy of this wedding day. A refreshing and unique touch.

Its was a pleasure to document the beauty and uniqueness of a wedding day in an exceptional and distinctive way. The challenge was, to find the most precious moments which deserve to be remembered and make them the most valuable pictures for the couple. I was in charge to capture the spirit of this occasion… in an emotional and aesthetical way. I had to stay with my statements:

“I’m passionate with my photography and I love to add a very personal touch to my work. I love creative wedding journalism & spontaneous portraits and I’m specializing in international extraordinary destination weddings.. I love dramatic and artistic wedding portraits and I love street photography.
Mountain peak, lonely island, Time Square – there is no place I cannot reach to shoot your unconventional wedding and stay invisible.”

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Its the continued series of sensual studio shots. It worked out very well with Katya from Model Mayhem. The basic idea was to build a diva-like portrait. However, the lighting was overdone in a way, but high contrast was not as bad in the end. While playing around with a monochrome filter and a heavy dark treatment a more graphic appearence developed over time. It’s in the direction of  wood carving now. How do you feel about that?

The colored pictures show the beautiful eyes and lips as well as the sensual mimics and a wonderful smile.

enjoy!

one of my most recent shootings together with the model Nika and a new make-up artist in town, Hatoe. Hatoe stepped in on short notice and did a wonderful job. This time we got another wonderful model on set: The black and beautiful Ibanez SA guitar which was a burner.. together with Nika. The initial idea was to go for another monochrome line with smokey eyes, nude lips and light-edges…

We tried to produce more emotional images. The idea worked out well since Nika is such a cute person to work with. But see some of the results by clicking below:

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Post production was experimental and completely done with Paintshop Pro X2, you will see some more detail of the postproduction in the upcoming tutorial on skin and beauty retouche with Paintshop Pro X2. See you soon!

(Taschenbuch)

This full-color and amply illustrated book is written for film, television, and theatre makeup artists who need to know the basics on how to accomplish flawless makeup applications. It begins with fundamental practices and continues through more complex techniques usually known only by Hollywood makeup artists. Written by two expert authors who have experience doing makeup for television, commmercials, and blockbuster films, readers will learn about beauty, time periods, black and white film, as well as cutting edge techniques such as air brusshing makeup for computer-generated movies, and makeup effects. High definition (HD) technology has revolutionized the techniques needed by makeup artists – you need to know more, have more talent, and be more detailed than ever before. Because HD emphasizes every detail on screen, it’s essential for makeup artists to know how to achieve a desired ‘look’ that fits the director’s requirements. This book will help professional and aspi (more…)

“Simple tricks of the trade will enable you to bring out the best in every subject. This comprehensive book will quickly prove its worth.” -”Shutterbug”

With detailed discussions and eye-catching, dynamic images, this guidebook shows professional photographers how to masterfully create beautiful images of a model to achieve any creative objective. Instructions illustrate basic poses as well as a host of subtle variations to provide photographers with an endless array of looks for editorial fashion shots, athletics, glamour or nude photography, and shots designed to show curves, reveal personality, or showcase the hands, hair, or legs. This comprehensive resource also provides expert advice on conducting a successful session, how to work with the model, how to work with a support staff of image stylists, and tips for designing a high-quality portfolio. Additional lessons provide a start-to-finish analysis of four different shooting sessions, … (more…)

Presenting strategies to assist photographers in bringing out the beauty in their subjects, this manual shows how the previously unique lighting techniques required within diverse areas of photography have evolved and condensed into a combined skill set. Presented in a portfolio style and using images from real sessions with actual clients, this guide covers the necessary tools, the process of job preparation, and the fundamental techniques used to achieve success in beauty lighting. Whether creating commercial, editorial, or fine-art portraiture photography, this reference is an essential tool in developing a strong understanding of lighting principles and in creating images that resonate with viewers.

Wes Kroninger is a professional photographer and a photo teacher. His work has appeared in American Salon, Modern Salon, Rangefinder, and Rolling Stone Magazine. He is a monthly contributor to www.prophotoresource.com. He lives in Los Angeles.

The following article is published with friendly permission of  Hans-Peter Kraus. Visit his Website to learn more about this wonderful poet http://www.brautigan.net/berries/erb6.htm .

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I … found this frothy fiction to be a waste of time to read, a waste of money to pay for, and a waste of space on the library shelf.

Joseph W. Sprug in: Catholic Library World, April 72, p.474-77

The opinions about »The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966« are somewhat different. In the 70′s that happens quite often to Richard Brautigan’s books. Perhaps you form completely uninfluenced your own opinion about this marvelous book.;-)

Vida

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Besides having an incredibly delicate face, beautiful, with long black hair that hung about her shoulders like bat lightning, there was something very unusual about her …

»This is my book,« she said.

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»What’s it about?« I said, holding the book in my hand, feeling almost a hatred coming from within the book.

»It’s about this,« she said and suddenly, almost hysterically, she unbuttoned her coat and flung it open as if it were a door to some horrible dungeon filled with torture instruments, pain and dynamic confession.

She was wearing a blue sweater and skirt and a pair of black leather boots in the style of this time. She had a fantastically full and developed body under her clothes that would have made the movie stars and beauty queens and showgirls bitterly ooze dead make-up in envy.

She was developed to the most extreme of Western man’s desire in this century for women to look: the large breasts, the tiny waist, the large hips, the long Playboy furniture legs.

She was so beautiful that the advertising people would have made her into a national park if they would have gotten their hands on her.

Then her blue eyes swirled like a tide pool and she started crying.

»This book is about my body,« she said. »I hate it. It’s too big for me. It’s somebody else’s body. It’s not mine.«

I reached in my pocket and took out a handkerchief and a candy bar. When people are troubled or worried, I always tell them it will be all right and give them a candy bar. It surprises them and it’s good for them.

»Everything’s going to be all right,« I said.
I gave her a Milky Way. She held it in her startled hand, staring at it.

Richard Brautigan, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, p. 42-44

After you could form completely uninfluenced your opinion about this book, I can tell you that Richard Brautigan in this book succeeds in connecting a marvelous love story with the topic abortion. That sounds unbelievable, doesn’t it? But with Richard Brautigan there a lot of things which are unbelievable, e.g. he invents the Internet in this book.

The Library

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We don’t use Dewey decimal classification or any index system to keep track of our books. We record their entrance into the library in the Library Contents Ledger and then we give the book back to its author who is free to place it anywhere he wants in the library, on whatever shelf catches his fancy.

It doesn’t make any difference where a book is placed because nobody ever checks them out and nobody ever comes to read them. This is not that kind of library. This is another kind of library.

Richard Brautigan, The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966, p. 20

When the people of the ARPA research project begin to create the bases for Internet in the 60′s they have such strange ideas as the use of the network for communication in a military emergency or in times of peace the possibility of a fast exchange of research results (history of the internet).

Richard Brautigan imagines in »The Abortion« a library to which everyone can bring everything he considers readable. This is recorded in a central catalog and then the writing submerges unread in an enormous fundus. Who is closer to?

By the way there is in fact an Internet page, which refers explicitly to Richard Brautigan’s library: Brautigan Virtual Library. So much for the Internet, let’s go to the movies …