it feels like the worst possible posing, lighting, god she looks like she is just blank in every way. If this was in ANTM we would be voting her off the show
I like some of them, but they really missed an opportunity I think with the location.
Definitely looks like a composite. Looks like the background was shot on film (either still or a frame from movie film) and the model looks completely digital.
Also putting her on the fur made compositing easier I'm sure.
Not to mention the temperature concerns already noted. It's just not credible.
Ummm...what?!? -35F is only like -2Celsius....thats BARELY below freezing...no you would not be able to use a banana as a hammer or watch coffee frreze in the air lol. wow. Come to canada sometime where we get -40 CELSIUS...and ive actually thrown a pot of boiling water outside to see it turn into slush before it his the ground... -35f is tshirt weather lol come one!
Yeah we wear tshirts in the dead of winter here, too. Was only 75 today.
Randall_Oelerich wrote: -45 and bikini? I don't think so, and I live up here in northern Minnesota USA where just a few weeks ago we had our typical -35F on the thermometer (-50F wind chill), so I know what that feels like and no fricken way can a model in a bikini be in that more than about 60 seconds, not without (and maybe they did this) several portable high BTU heaters blowing on her. At -35F you can toss a cup of hot coffee in the air and it falls as ice crystals, you can use a bananna as a hammer, car seats are like concrete, I live through that type of cold a couple of weeks a year where i live (because we have an air force airbase here, they even used my city to test the Air Force One helicopter to be sure it could function in extreme cold).
They have a hot tub (assuming it's hot) on the boat and some photos are with her completely soaked. Soaking wet at -45 degrees...how long would it take for the water in her hair freeze over...even under direct sunlight. Does the Antarctic even get that cold when the sun is unfiltered and no storms?
Rachael Bueckert wrote: Wow that is so fake...theres a penguin hanging out in the second picture. Come on. NO wild penguin is gonna just stand there while theres 5 people talking, moving around, with big scary flashing lights and softboxes and all that. All wildlife would be out of sight. Deffinately photoshopped. And she would be losing consciousness before she lost eyesight and hearing...your body doesnt shut down your senses to keep you warm during hypothermia. All of her limbs would be frozen numb before that happened, and im sure by that time they would be smart enough to start passively warming her...
Are you serious?! You should do some research on penguins.
Select Models wrote: HOW FUCKING STUPID!... save thousands of dollars... a death defying trip and some major model suffering and just photoshop in the background. If a good enough job is done... nobody's gonna know... ...
It's crazy to shoot in such an extreme environment, but I agree. I mean if you're gonna do it, go baws to the wall and go all out and do it right! It's Antarctica, for fuck's sake. The place is EPIC looking. Shoot something EPIC, regal, strong, inspiring, awesome. It's ANTARCTICA, not Chicago or some place you could go any time. That whole team failed, sorry to say. The model may have lost her eyesight, but the team lost their vision.
They should've gotten someone like Ira Mayer behind that lens.
He's the kinda photographer that gives the viewer goosebumps from what he shoots there.
Simply put, she would have had a lot of frostbite all over her body if their claims of -45 were legit... As such it would have been impossible for her to work afterwards for a significant time period. It's purely a publicity stunt.
As a side note... It seems all you need to do to get on the cover of SI is to be chunky, have massive tits & have Terry Richardson video you dancing around in a tiny bikini, then post it on YouTube. I miss the SI from the 90's to 2005 when they had real Supermodels such as Elle MacPherson, Vendela, Heidi, Petra Nemcova, Rebecca Romijn etc. I'm sorry but Kate Upton isn't in the same league... She just doesn't look good in the swimwear!
Hey, I was already corrected on that, I obviously forgot was a plus and minus sign looked like -.-
A plus is just two minus signs making babies. And no, I really meant it was 75 today. I live in Texas. We cry when it goes below 94. Thank God for coats, yo.
Are you serious?! You should do some research on penguins.
Just googled about it...wow, thats crazy never knew they werent afraid of humans. Well im just gonna sit in the corner and be quiet, I seem to be messing up evertthing that comes out of my mouth today....
A plus is just two minus signs making babies. And no, I really meant it was 75 today. I live in Texas. We cry when it goes below 94. Thank God for coats, yo.
same as we here in Florida, below 80 it's frigging COLD brrrrrr
A plus is just two minus signs making babies. And no, I really meant it was 75 today. I live in Texas. We cry when it goes below 94. Thank God for coats, yo.
LOL. thats an interesting way to put it!
Oh wow i would be dying if i was in 94f weather! Thats kind of temperatures are good for hot yoga but...no thanks! lol crazy what people can adapt to.
Just googled about it...wow, thats crazy never knew they werent afraid of humans. Well im just gonna sit in the corner and be quiet, I seem to be messing up evertthing that comes out of my mouth today....
it is pretty amazing at how curious they are about humans. I guess they are lucky we never bothered to hunt them like everything else. Otherwise they probably would run/swim away.
Herman Surkis
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
MKPhoto wrote: Let me assure you. It was not a -45 degree day. On a -45 degree day every breath looks like a cloud and ice builds up on the eyelashes. Exposed skin turns white and blueish in a minute, starting from your hands. Your nose starts running very quickly. You start shivering in 30 seconds if you don't wear stuff. At -45 degree mechanical stuff start breaking up. At -45 degrees life slows down, even in the North.
My guesstimate is for around freezing mark. with sun that gives you fair amount of warmth; wet rocks on the beach, spring looking melt of the snow at the beach etc. and the rest is propaganda.
I cancelled a shoot with well weathered Canadians at -20 C (-10F). What the crew was wearing is irrelevant - that's what you are given as part of Antarctic "cruise" and what you feel like wearing if you just flew from 80,90,100 degree weather.
Pretty much covers my experience in really cold weather.
Herman Surkis
Posts: 6,230
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Rachael Bueckert wrote: Just googled about it...wow, thats crazy never knew they werent afraid of humans. Well im just gonna sit in the corner and be quiet, I seem to be messing up evertthing that comes out of my mouth today....
Herman Surkis
Posts: 6,230
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Rachael Bueckert wrote:
LOL. thats an interesting way to put it!
Oh wow i would be dying if i was in 94f weather! Thats kind of temperatures are good for hot yoga but...no thanks! lol crazy what people can adapt to.
My worst experience was 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle, in -20 degrees with 2 trousers, 4 sweaters and two coats on, taking a glove off to hold a cigarette and fiddle with the camera and within 20 seconds there was intense pain, it felt like my wrist was in a vice, then I looked up and saw two Norwegians, drunk as skunks, walking down the road in Armani suits.
The worst part is that, between the lighting style and the juxtaposition of the model in a bikini against that backdrop, they very easily could be mistaken for composited images as they are.
On another note, can we PLEASE send Tyra Banks next year?
salvatori.
Posts: 2,609
State College, Pennsylvania, US
H3D PHOTOGRAPHER wrote: I miss the SI from the 90's to 2005 when they had real Supermodels such as Elle MacPherson, Vendela, Heidi, Petra Nemcova, Rebecca Romijn etc. I'm sorry but Kate Upton isn't in the same league... She just doesn't look good in the swimwear!
I will agree with this sentiment but would ask for an allowance for Brooklyn Decker. She is beautiful, shapely and elegant.
And I say this in spite of the fact that she won't return my calls... lol
JimBobLc
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Martinsburg, West Virginia, US
They had to crop her feet off due to frostbite
Christopher Hartman wrote:
I like the cover shot. The last one...I'm wondering if they cropped her feet off because she's wearing boots they didn't like. And I'm wondering if the exposure on her was off because she's got this glow around her legs from the background. I've seen that when I try to preserve background exposure while correcting foreground elements.
Rollo David Snook wrote: My worst experience was 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle, in -20 degrees with 2 trousers, 4 sweaters and two coats on, taking a glove off to hold a cigarette and fiddle with the camera and within 20 seconds there was intense pain, it felt like my wrist was in a vice, then I looked up and saw two Norwegians, drunk as skunks, walking down the road in Armani suits.
The most surprising part is a Norwegian in a suit.
it is pretty amazing at how curious they are about humans. I guess they are lucky we never bothered to hunt them like everything else. Otherwise they probably would run/swim away.
salvatori.
Posts: 2,609
State College, Pennsylvania, US
Posting this in this thread instead of starting a new one, as it has to do with the SI issue.
Is it me, or do the examples in the article look like badly done composites? Wouldn't it be a riot if it comes out that SI never went to any of these places (esp. Upton's 'journey'?)
salvatori. wrote: Posting this in this thread instead of starting a new one, as it has to do with the SI issue.
Is it me, or do the examples in the article look like badly done composites? Wouldn't it be a riot if it comes out that SI never went to any of these places (esp. Upton's 'journey'?)
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