Marky wrote:
Beautiful photos I love the freckles on the model. Do you prefer shooting in b/w as colour works well for you too

Thanks.

I generally find that B&W resonates more strongly with me and I almost always shoot with the camera set to monochrome mode as it makes me concentrate on light, shade and composition while shooting rather than getting distracted by pretty colours!

I always shoot RAW though, and of course it's so easy in Lightroom to run your mouse over a bunch of presets that I generally play with a couple of colour looks for a few seconds while I'm deciding how to convert the RAW file. Sometimes, something about the images seems to work better in colour and that was the case here

Funnily enough, my other recent editorial on Fashionising.com was in colour also! https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=921706




Just my $0.02 etc. etc.

Dean Johnson Photo wrote:
The tinyurl link isn't working. I get a connection reset error. Usually I only see that on MM.

Yes - Tinyurl seems to be having problems today

Another Italian Guy wrote:
This one with lovely Raspberry Jam.

And yes... in colour again!

http://tinyurl.com/m4d62ro (18+)

Enjoy

Enjoyed very much!

Another Italian Guy wrote:
Funnily enough, my other recent editorial on Fashionising.com was in colour also! https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=921706

Really nice work, thankyou for sharing

GPS Studio Services wrote:
I saw some fashion breasts!  Actually great work ... I love it!

Thanks - I was thinking I might send a couple in to The Fashion Tit!

http://www.thefashiontit.com/

Dean Johnson Photo wrote:
Great images, but my question is, what makes it fashion?

Well firstly, there's some lingerie, not to mention the boots

However, they're absolutely not the deciding factor. Fashion is often about clothes, yes; but fashion is also about hair, body image, makeup etc. etc... Everything people do with their appearance, their way of talking, even their way of walking, the music they listen to, the food they eat, is all bound up in fashion. You could easily substitute the phrase popular culture" for "fashion" in most cases and it would possibly make more sense.

And of course (and I'm sure you've seen me write this many times before) fashion, when it comes to selling "stuff", is all about aspiration. And fashion photography is about reflecting popular culture in a way that creates aspiration in the viewer. That's why a picture of a nude model can be used to sell the shoes on the floor beside her, or the perfume (we're told) she's wearing.

If you look at a popular magazine like C-Heads which is gaining a lot of traction lately, you won't see many haute couture set-pieces or whacky hats; you won't find a lot of perfectly lit, perfectly exposed images of models standing statically around with their whole outfits visible in every image. What you will find though are plenty of seemingly unposed images (snapshots some might say) of young people doing cool shit and having fun. The images are all about mood and life and the moment, not (just) the clothes.

Artifice wrote:
Your air conditioner looks very effective!

Actually, it was October

J O H N  A L L A N wrote:
Very nice! - moody - one shot in particular just kills.

Now you've got me guessing....

But thanks!

Another Italian Guy wrote:

Well firstly, there's some lingerie, not to mention the boots

However, they're absolutely not the deciding factor. Fashion is often about clothes, yes; but fashion is also about hair, body image, makeup etc. etc... Everything people do with their appearance, their way of talking, even their way of walking, the music they listen to, the food they eat, is all bound up in fashion. You could easily substitute the phrase popular culture" for "fashion" in most cases and it would possibly make more sense.

And of course (and I'm sure you've seen me write this many times before) fashion, when it comes to selling "stuff", is all about aspiration. And fashion photography is about reflecting popular culture in a way that creates aspiration in the viewer. That's why a picture of a nude model can be used to sell the shoes on the floor beside her, or the perfume (we're told) she's wearing.

If you look at a popular magazine like C-Heads which is gaining a lot of traction lately, you won't see many haute couture set-pieces or whacky hats; you won't find a lot of perfectly lit, perfectly exposed images of models standing statically around with their whole outfits visible in every image. What you will find though are plenty of seemingly unposed images (snapshots some might say) of young people doing cool shit and having fun. The images are all about mood and life and the moment, not (just) the clothes.

Cool. I guess that makes me a fashion photographer. Woot!

Dean Johnson Photo wrote:
Cool. I guess that makes me a fashion photographer. Woot!

If you feel you can cope with dealing with magazine editors in addition to the rabble here, then go for it!

J O H N  A L L A N wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/pc2yjat

One of my faves too