Month: April 2009

Bebelusele at SMAEB

You can’t have a good motor show without sexy celebrities and you can’t have a bike salon in Bucharest without Bebelușele, it would not be the same without them. They are beautiful and a pleasure for any photographer (even if this time they were places in a horrible spot with bad light coming from behind so you had to do mostly "contre jours".

SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes

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SMAEB + 4tuning – eye candy for everybody

I have in mind a quote which is so obvious that a lot of people should said it already "a car show is for a photographer just like a candy store for a child"

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars 4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars

So the candy store cam to me this spring in the form of the 2009 edition of both the Bikes Salon SMAEB and the car tuning salon 4tuning, something I couldn’t miss, no matter what.

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars 4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars 4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars

I took effectively tons of photos (thousands), like in this post general shots of the show but more will come when I get to process them: a lot of beautiful booth babes, some portraits, a number of panty shots and a few surprises.

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes

I am not much into cars or bikes, so the machines are only [at most] a secondary element in my pictures, so if you are searching for cars, maybe this is not the best place to look at.

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars 4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars 4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars

On a technical side, I attended the fairs both Saturday and Sunday but tried something: one day shooting with a zoom lens (28-300mm) and a lot of flash (my first massive use of flash ever) and the other day used a 50mm prime and almost no flash. Being lazy, I still prefer to use the zoom lens.

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes

The hardest part was, as always is the case for me, the selection. I just find awfully hard to reject photos, even when they have visible defects, I still find a thing or two what I like. This is my largest weakness as a photographer.

4tuning 2009: Babes and Cars SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes SMAEB 2009: Babes an Bikes

So stay ready, more to come…

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Typical Romania: the gipsy and the cimbalom

You get a chance for an interesting shoot and screw it, with the excuse that it was night in a moving tram, fire the on-camera flash and unleash the hell. Then months later you get the second change and obviously you screw it again, with the opposite excuse, supposedly the light was too strong. Such is life…

The gipsy and the cimbalom

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Snow White is wearing sneakers

Today’s candid: Snow White. In the park (Cismigiu). And wearing sneakers. Is that supposed to be a fairy tale?

Snow White is wearing sneakers

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Forget-me-not. Blue.

Blue Forget-me-not are one of my favourite flowers, no wonder I can’t stop my camera when viewing some…

Blue Forget-Me-Not / Nu-Ma-Uita Albastre

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Magnolias

Is relatively easy for me to shoot white magnolias, since there is (still) one in my garden, so I have a lot of shots with its flowers:

White Magnolia and More

But I like better the pink ones, so I had to search the city:

Pink Magnolia

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Senbonzakura Kageyoshi

What can I say more? Those are yoshiro cherry trees (染井吉野) in full blossom in the "Japanese Garden" from the Herastrau Park in Bucharest. Ah, there is something more to say: it was a warm day and the bees were flying from flower to flower. So Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi.

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom Sakura: Japanese cherry tree blossom

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Bridal

From the photographer’s point of view, one of the positive aspects of the "e-marigage" weddings fair in Bucharest was the frequency of the fashion shows they had on stage, so I could shoot about 3 of them. Too bad they had the same few models again and again (at least a few of them were beautiful, so all in all a positive experience.

Say anything you want, but looking at her I can’t think of anything else than Arwen UndomieLiv Tyler. I am definitely a geek (but she has nice rack too):

Wedding Fair:

And they had also some "kinky" stuff too:

Wedding Fair:

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Blossoming apricot

I think is the time to start unleashing the blossoming trees of the spring… Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!

Blossoming trees: Apricot

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