04-02-12

mandas

F/2, i think this is more crop factor then else, also backround was reflecting much light, so getting more attention than it should. Thank you, anyway :)

12-22-11

mandas

Stana is a superb model, a real performer. You just need tell her what you want, and she does straight away. She just does to the last comma what man Ray reported Helmut Newton told him, about the model being 90% of the final result, when you are lucky to shoot this top kind of models.

Thanks to you all for your comments :)

10-27-11

mandas

Cause the idea is to focus close, wide, and blurred. You can't do that with a macro lens, which will be longer focal and less fast.
Am I right!

I love this photo, and this style of shooting flowerbs and herbs. My compliments!

05-24-11

mandas

Yannaann, seems to me you are obsessed with this picture, which means that deep insiede you are attracted by it. And you sound to be a self-righteous guy, dispensing moral judgements. And also it seem very evident you know nothing about Photography, confusing what your personal liking with general statements.
Auschwitz...i don't know your age, and certainly i myself was born much after those horrors...well, i have never seen a picture of a woman (survived) in that horror place who still had such full breasts, and definitely not one where they where smiling/mocking. This whole serie was intended t be an open homage to Helmut Newton's Big Nudes, if you know what i'm talking about.
It is evident, once more, that one always sees what he already has in its mind.
Cheers from sunny Italy.

04-11-11

mandas

aahahahhaha, you blind? or just teasing?

03-17-11

mandas

Thank you all for the nice commenting!

11-28-10

mandas

Thank you very much Dimitris, I see the real connoisseur in your comment.

09-29-10

mandas

sure she is!!!! thanks :))

09-28-10

mandas

i love these graphic pictures.very good!

09-25-10

mandas

Thanks ;)

09-25-10

mandas

Great strong compostion, the two man's shapes talk magnificently to the the windows' squares.
A great poster to have on the wall.

Marino

09-25-10

mandas

This pics calls up my emotional side..i feel sympathetic to the man in the photo, his bent head. The windows squares really give weight to the composition. love the picture.

Marino

09-19-10

mandas

Thanks a lot, Stephen!

Marino

09-17-10

mandas

hi, the white glossy table was a acting as chin reflectore, and she had another silver reflector right to her right

09-17-10

mandas

thanks. Just one strobe with a fresnel on, far back camera left.no fill.no panels.

09-14-10

mandas

Hi, i was just quie close in with the 2/35mm, and i was holding the lens axis just a bit higher then one should when using a wide-angle so close to a vertical subject, then you have this apparent diproprtion of the body. Add that the model is 188cm high..veeery long legs, they add to the effect!

Marino

09-14-10

mandas

Russell, thanks a lot, i appreciate your comment particularly. You said it exactly as it is!

Marino

08-15-10

mandas

Hi, this is a piece the waterfront area of the old city of Otranto, on the extreme southern tip of the italian Adriatic sea :), famous for its Martyrs of the Turks' siege in 1482, and for the immense Tree of Life mosaic floor of the magnificent romanic cathedral plus is the same city as in the "Castle of Otranto", gothic short novel by Sir Horace Walpole written in the early XIXth century

:)))

08-13-10

mandas

the G Planar is mounted on a Pannie GF-1, the real f/stop used was f/8, steadying the camera on a marble bench

08-13-10

mandas

the G Planar is mounted on a Pannie GF-1, the real f/stop used was f/2, hand-held