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".
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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"
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So stay ready, more to come…
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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…
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Today’s candid: Snow White. In the park (Cismigiu). And wearing sneakers. Is that supposed to be a fairy tale?
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Blue Forget-me-not are one of my favourite flowers, no wonder I can’t stop my camera when viewing some…
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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:
But I like better the pink ones, so I had to search the city:
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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.
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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):
And they had also some "kinky" stuff too:
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I think is the time to start unleashing the blossoming trees of the spring… Chire, Senbonzakura Kageyoshi!
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Posting lot of flower photos lately I may gave the wrong impression of wussification… nothing far from the truth, in the park I don’t shoot only flowers but also people. Not many, as the weather is not yet warm enough and I am picky.
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Among other trees and flowers, the willows are blossoming to, making the walk near a lake into a beautiful experience.
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We are into the astronomic spring already, the bulbs (like this magnolia from my garden) are ready to explode, they need probably one or more hot sunny days, not the cloudy today. But there is a good thing to that: I have not managed to uplaod al ths shots from yesterday in the park…
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I could use some help from my readers, even if those flowers, probably the first trees blossoming in the spring, are practically everywhere, including in my garden, where I took the shoot, I don’t know their name, not the Romanian name and not the English name.
Update: thanks to a comment on flickr, I learned the name: "Forsythia" in English respectively "Forsiția" in Romanian
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The Romanian word for squirrel is "veveriță" and sometime is used in the same sense as the English "beaver", so I guess someone can argue about a link between those shoots and my usual stuff…
This little guy lives in the Herastrau Park and, even still stressed, is accustomed with people and is profiteering to grab some food.
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One of the most popular tourism destination for Romanians is Turkey, so inevitably agencies present at a Romanian Tourism Fair must attract visitors with some oriental belly dance and if you, as a photographer, spot a cooperative dancer, the shoting is set:
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