These shots I made almost a year ago but this is the 1st time I'm publishing them. The trick was exactly in that spirit coming out from the cup with a swastika. That is why I needed so long time to finally publish these. So, I must admit that I had a small but significant intervention on these shots & that was my model's idea - to create this vapor coming out from the cup. I usually don't like using Photoshop too much & create these kind of photomontage. I prefer my shots to be as perfect as possible as like I took them in the specific moment with as less intervention in editing later on. I could call myself old school & this is also the reason why I also prefer publishing a lot in black and white editions. But the modern times & photography trends demand more use of photoshop so finally I decided to exit my own framework & start using some of the possibilities of the time I'm living in... Here are the results:
I hope I didn't exaggerate with drawing a "spirit coming out of the cup"?!
On this particular shot I wonder if the vapor isn't visible enough - what do you think?
If you rub a cup long enough a real spirit-ghost-jinnee will eventually come out!
Here's another play of words cause of the meaning of the word spirit which means a ghost but also an alcoholic liquid, a pure medicinal one. So, when you get drunk out of alcohol you actually get possessed by a spirit of the plant of which the drink is made. Some drinks are made of many different plants & that case many plant-entities possess your body & control your behavior. There is another similarity between the word gin & jinnee which have the same relation as meaning of the word spirit. Many languages but especially English have these hidden word plays which can also be called spells...
When I look at this shot, I'm very glad that I listened my model to create the vapor from the cup.
The beautiful model I portraited here is Katarina Legac. She has been working as a model professionally so you can see how she knows to pose in the upper shots but on the photo below I caught her more spontaneously as was just preparing the camera. It was just a trial photo but still I find it as a good shot & I wanted to publish it here just for the comparison...
When the woman is happy, she's emitting happiness all around & can make others happy too. So, girls, be happy & satisfied with yourselfs & your lives! Don't expect & wait others to make you feel good cause no one can except you! There is no prince on the white horse!
I keep noticing many beautiful women in the streets & often I have my camera with me & a wish to make photography of these random beautiful girls.
One side of me wants to catch them without them knowing it cause I like to have these fully natural moments but this is hardly achieved & also I'm doubting if it's ethical?!
Other side of me is conscious that I could go straight to these girls & ask them if I could take few shots of them right there in the street & most probably I would achieve greater results...
Thanks!
@monochromes for keeping up this great photo challenge! You can choose any of the photos from this post as an entry to the contest.The upper shots I made with Nikon D800 & Sigma MACRO 105 mm lens & for the self-portrait below I used the same camre with Nikon AF Nikkor 35-70 mm..
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