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by **xaraan** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 10:57 pm

thanks

by **Dr Stranger** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 1:12 am

xaraan wrote:new picture I did, obviously had to wait to finish it; shot the first half months ago when she was pregnant and the other part of the image last week

was happy it came out pretty much how I imagined it

This is the most beautiful picture I've scene in a long, long time.

thank you

by **Kolimar** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:01 am

You have some interesting, beautiful stuff there. You're also very lucky to have an attractive girlfriend who is so understanding and cooperative with your artistic activities. Congratulations. :-)

by **Zenguru** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:20 am

Xaraan, you have a gift. And you use it well.

by **xaraan** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 12:09 pm

thanks guys
I need to get out and shoot some more fun stuff like that; been doing too much generic business crap lately between that and a couple wedding cancellations work has been bland lately

by **Arion** » Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:51 pm

xaraan wrote:thanks

You're welcome .

by **xaraan** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:52 pm

A few shots from Earthdance a few weeks ago.

by **xaraan** » Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:55 pm

Also, I don't know if anyone saw on my facebook already, but that maternity reflection picture that was posted earlier in the thread was stolen by someone and photoshopped with Kristin Stewarts face put over that woman's and then made all sparkly and some dawn scene put in the background for some "fan art" of Breaking Dawn movie.

Not only that, but it was posted on deviant art, a forum, two fansites and some site that sells fan made posters.

Fortunately I got them all pulled down, but it was a bit irritating.

by **~Alima~** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:18 am

Kolimar wrote: You're also very lucky to have an attractive girlfriend who is so understanding and cooperative with your artistic activities. Congratulations.

Yes he is VERY lucky... and I do think he's extremely talented

by **Muppetesque** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 9:56 am

Damn... I've always liked your work, but your most recent pieces blow your earlier work out of the water. You've got an amazing sense of composition.

It's a shame you aren't closer. I have a project that's starting to come together where we're going to need stills taken and you've got the right kind of eye for it.

by **xaraan** » Fri Oct 22, 2010 10:39 am

thanks
I try to keep improving everyday
(sometimes depends on the environment I get when I'm shooting live though)

by **xaraan** » Sun Oct 24, 2010 10:11 pm

Love shooting the bellydance stuff, so much more interesting than almost anything else (although I do like maternity and similar portraits) But here are some pics from a couple shoots I did last week:

by **xaraan** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:14 pm

Some pics Cat Scratch and I were talking about in Alima's thread, but since they aren't all of Alima I am posting them here

We were talking about pictures shot with long exposure and flash still being fired at end of the exposure, this gives you a bit of movement still, but with a clear image (usually only the subject - as the flash doens't really hit the background enough) frozen into the movement.

This last one is the same woman in purple as previous pics, but shot with a normal flash; you can see the difference, much more frozen look to it than the other.

by **Cat-Scratch** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:24 pm

xaraan wrote:Some pics Cat Scratch and I were talking about in Alima's thread, but since they aren't all of Alima I am posting them here

We were talking about pictures shot with long exposure and flash still being fired at end of the exposure, this gives you a bit of movement still, but with a clear image (usually only the subject - as the flash doens't really hit the background enough) frozen into the movement.

This last one is the same woman in purple as previous pics, but shot with a normal flash; you can see the difference, much more frozen look to it than the other.

The purple one is interesting. The effect is different, but interesting in how it will differ so much from the other shots, plus just what her costume's details are. They blend in a way that adds more.

I wonder what it would look like, if both danced together in those costumes. I suspect it'd be
evocative of the old Disney Fantasia film's certain sequences. Yet, not animated in that style. Even a kaleidoscope like effect perhaps?

by **Cat-Scratch** » Fri Feb 04, 2011 3:28 pm

You've got a great eye Xaraan. :-D

A number of nice shots here. Like the one of just a dancer's hand with her cymbals.
That and you do seem to capture their joy and energy in the photos.

Interesting subject to shoot, given some of the results, as we've spoke of.

Thanks for sharing! :-D