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Originally Posted by s.m.e.p.
But please can you tell me why you cut the hands and have too much space over the heads at 6 of 9 pictures?
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Thanks smep,
I'm just not formerly trained. If I've given to much headroom, it's a conscious decision. Interestingly enough, most people complain that I shoot to tight. You need to look closer. for example, the bather, there is a bird in the back ground, that adds a triangular geometry to the face and bag. As far as hands, you mean like this?
LFI Gallery - Portrait/Melanie
Just a compositional decisions I guess. to me the far bigger sin is to cut someone off at the waist, neck or knees like this:
LFI Gallery - Portrait/Eliades Ochoa
As far as 6 out of 9, the young girl had her hands rolled up in her jacket and the sadhu has the tip of a finger under a brown thing. I wanted to shoot them as they were. I guess 4 out of 9 ain't bad?
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Originally Posted by ChrisC
Indian people are nice, so I thought that on your next trip you might take a 'collection' in India for your undernourished bikini models; so they might get a decent meal inside them.
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Chris,
Thanks. You are probably referring to Rei who was Miss World Japan at the time. I've never met a nicer young lady. She wolfed down a chicken Caesar right in front of me and asked for extra dressing. Her father was a Yakuza crime boss who was murdered in the same house where she slept at a very young age. She got involved in drugs, yada, yada. Currently she doesn't drink or do drugs. Her decision was to help children (like herself) and enter beauty pageants so she could further her education. She also escorted me on the train to my subway station in Tokyo as she was worried about me. And she being 6'1" in heels.