Many photographers here are professionals, who count their life on their works.
Since this is a professionals' forum in some extent, I think if we have a thread which people could post their proud works here, and have a place to talk about them, all users here would benefit.

So let's focus on the technics, not the equipments; the art side, not the hardware side.
In the end you are what you shoot, not what camera you use.

And if you like, you can add who are the clients, what's the layout, where is your inspirition comes from, and how you did it.
Of coz you could just post a image but say nothing, it's ok because just enjoying a great picture is already good enough .

Edit:We don't care whether it's a commissioned work or a self promotion(personal) one, as long as you are serious and proud of it, it would have a place here!

I'll start with some pics for Harper's Bazaar, the editor wants some shiny effects, so I did this (still not finished retouching):

Thanks for starting the thread Dustblue and lovely pics, always nice to look at well executed shots.

Nick-T

Thank you Nick. I hope this works.
dustblue

For german KultMag. P45+ on H2
The whole magazine can be found on kultmodelagency.com
cheers,
martin

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Nice shots, Dustblue!

Thierry

I like the head shot, especially the moody color and big aperture.

to Thierry: thanks a lot:)

from my industry serial of left places.
for exhibition purposes. 160 x 160 cm.
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the image is brighter in LL after the upload than the original although everything`s sRGB.
why?

Dear Rainer,

beautiful one again. I like the distortion and the resulting "spin". Attracts like an undertow.
Few colors - actually red and cyan - well balanced.
A bit scary and gloomy but without pointing out this ambiance too much...
Like it very much!

do you use a color managed webbrowser?

Best Regards,
Thomas

thanks a lot thomas.
i use firefox.

Firefox has CMS. Did you enable it?
CMS in Firefox must be activated by the user ... at least in the beta versions you had to activate it manually (maybe in the final release that's default).
adress - type: about:config
press enter
confirm warning
Look for the entry: "gfx.color_management.enabled"
set "true" (or just doubleclick)
edit: restart firefox

Maybe this solves it... ?

I shot this for an editorial.

Edited: Now that I see it after uploading to LL, color is off, I think its in ProPhoto RGB. Too magenta in the highlights, too bronzed out in the mids. Its a little dark as well. This is a JPEG that came back from prepress.

Here's one from a series that's heading for exhibition.

Murray

Beautiful!

Thierry

Here's a couple more of a 1937 Peugoet I shot last summer. It's just recently slowed down enough for me to work on a few things that are more passion than profit. Even though the car looks a bit out of place in the overhead I think it still works with the rest of the series (shown in the first Recent Works thread). Jim

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Image before final production retouching to fit our client's advertising campaign.
I will try to post the add when we get it ready.
Rz67 with A75a at ISO50
2.8/250 ?
http://AndreNapier.com

Really nice.

My father is a car collector. These old Peugeots are really beautiful. My father has several 1935 Hudsons, a Hornet and a Terraplane, among others. He had a Terraplane shot a few years ago in LA, I wish you had shot it!

T

Jim:
It's great to see your excellent works again. I just watched your whole website, it takes me 2 hours..and I want to say I really love your works, especially the vintage series. They are just perfect curves, perfect highlights and perfect color. Oh and I love Jimi Hendrix too! He is my hero when I was a lead guitar in a college band.

Just two questions:
1.how do you avoid yourself to appear in the reflective surface? or do you retouch them off?
2.the second photo you post, is it a composition or you just shoot it under the sun?

Thanks again for sharing!

Regards
Dustblue

This car with its shapes AND the shots are just BEAUTIFUL: a pleasure for the eyes.
Continue to show us such nice things and thanks!

Thierry

Thanks for all the positive comments! I really appreciate them. To answer Dustblue's questions, the vehicles were shot in my studio (there's a picture of it in the Studio thread) and the images were assembled and retouched (by me). The fender detail had a variety of tripod legs to remove and the overhead actually was two shots with my light bank lighting either side of the vehicle and then the two captures blended together. Dustblue, my website is in the process of a major overhaul and in a couple of weeks will have a considerable amount of new content. By the way, the first concert I ever attended was Jimi Hendrix, he played at the Masonic Temple in Detroit in 1968. I was in bands too, luckily for me I traded my bass guitar for an old Nikon F! Thanks again, Jim

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This will be my new promo card to Ad around.

It has been my lunch after discovering new DB prices...


Cheers



Roberto



Emotion 54LV/RZ67
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That's a nice shot, Roberto. I like the colours composition.

Thierry

Jim:
Luckily for me that I don't have to trade my vintage stratocastor for a camera, I still love it:)
I'm sure I'll go to your website when it's refreshed, thank you for that!

Regards,
Dustblue

Thanks for your appreciation, above all I'm enjoying the 54LV very much, it's like a brand new start from small format to medium. Amazing!


Kind regards


Roberto

Like this one, Mamiya ZD:



Will probably be part of an upcoming exhibit.

I did a lot more stitching with the D3 recently and used the Mamiya ZD less, but this image reminded me of the potential of the beast. This would be real hard to do well stitching because the image works for me thanks to the motion of the leaves in the middle of the frame.

Cheers,
Bernard

Jim:
I was at that same concert in 1968.
That, and the Stones concert at Olympia in 1969, are seared in my memory.
Howard

Sorry to say I missed the Stones concert, although I've seen them many times since. I was at a rock memorabilia show a couple of years ago and picked up the poster for the Hendrix show. I'll shoot it and send it off to you. Jim

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I think it is supposed to. It looks like a 'broken glass burger'

I totally missed the glass But that one spot still takes my eye away from the rest of the shot.

Test shot. Just starting to play with other subjects outside my normal architorture work. Any comment since this is my first food shots welcome.

(1-2) H2 with 120 Macro Leaf Aptus 75 (3) H2 with 80 mm

(1) H2 80mm Leaf Aptus 75 (2) H2 120 macro Leaf Aptus 75

It's amazing how weird is the behaviour of glass when you pile it up, like multiple shifted lenses.

That's correct, it's a broken glass burger as Dustback said, we have a saying in our town when you are not happy to do something: then we said "it's better a broken glass burger..."(or something similar).

Just a different kind of food shot, just sharper.


Roberto

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I like this shot as I had the idea of this dancer Bobby somersaulting in air over zebra crossing to illustrate his dance style and after working out positioning I did a few shots and got what I'd previsualised, but it lacked a little something. But when Juan [chap in background] appeared I asked him to do a handstand and got Bobby to do another flip. Only took the one shot as it was exactly as I wanted. Well without repainting road markings to make them more symmetrical.



As an aside, I posted this on another forum to illustrate why a 5D was more than adequate for dance photography as if you simply take the shot at right moment, then a fast motordrive is not needed. The amount of abuse I got for daring to suggest a camera that only does 2.5/3fps [?] was good enough for dance photography was astonishing. I was also attacked for the over-Photoshopped image - ironic as the image look/quality is just the JPEG straight out of camera to quickly stick up on Flickr, not the processed RAW file!
It always amazes me how loudly people like to proclaim their lack of knowledge.

I lost a similar image a while ago in a hard disk crash, and had requests to buy prints of it so I had to wait for a decent evening to re-shoot it, which happened tonight:

Graham

Fantastic shot.

- Rudy Torres

Not as fancy as some other posts but classic headshots still get me going.
Here is one from the other day.
Mamiya 645II with ZD Back 150mm 3.5 lens hand held wide open so a little soft.

- Rudy Torres

Just a couple of images form a series I did for a jewellery designer shot on a 120 mm Macro H3dII 39 ....

A Recent Interior!


Murray

Nice Murray, Haven't seen too many with a bird in it. Cool! Jim

Yep,

we had a bird handler there and the bird was trained to be used to flash!

The client was extremely patient with the whole process, even while the bird went 'woopsies' (as the handler called it) all over the floor!

Murray

Very nice. Mind sharing camera/lens?

Cheers!

Shot on an Alpa SWA, with a 24mm APO Digitar XL, Sinar 75LV Back.

Cheers

Thanks.

Graham:

Very nice color and great composition!
Just a litte disappointment: the messy(sort of) foreground. I was always bothered by it too when I try to shoot some panorama for buildings like this, some times it's just impossible to find a higher eye point...

btw It's hard to see some of the photos which are not directly uploaded to LL, some times it's even impossible to see them. I tried many proxies to watch your photo this time (infact all your photos posted here recently, I have to find proxies for them...) so if you will you could upload them directly to LL next time, that would be really convenient!

Thanks for sharing!

Regards,
Dustblue

student housing, chicago.
shot from 17 meter crane. 15 sec. exposure.

Nicely done Rainer! Looks like wind wasn't an issue. Jim

no wind. although its astonishing how quiet some of this machines stand in wind, meanwhile they react hysteric to every movements of yourself.

The evening mood is coming thru very good in this fine shot. What often disturbs me is the amount of shifting which leads in my perception to mushroom like buildings and blossom like effects of
buildings bending to the sides, especially in wide angle shots. Am I alone with this perception? I'm an artist who can do what he wants and therefore rarely use shifting because of these side effects.
I really would like to know if other photographers here use large amount of shifting because of clients demands or because they think it looks 'natural'?
Here is a simple example of one of my photo works with no shifting. It was captured with the H3DII39, which I had as a loaner from Hasselblad during the time my H3DII31 was repaired because of a sensor problem.

Has this become THE Dustblue show...??
Not only insulting peoples work in the other thread, Now making comments about others work here??

Who are you to make comments on peoples works (snapshot's) But now also in "professional" works...

Very strange character...

Should I/we Comment on some of your Overly retouched work....

Or can we just post our work and have people look at it or not....
Snook

Please, don't say it like that.
Every place have its own rules, you adapt yourselt to it or you leave. I dont't think this is about culture, not at all, and please don't confuse people about it. You speak only on your OWN behalf, but not Chinese.
Most Chinese professionals don't speak English, this is why there are few chinese guys here. BUT well educated chinese pros are all really polite and humble AFAIK.

dustblue, I understand your feeling now, if you do agree this is your fault, FEEL FREE and just don't do it again, you won't be an enemy. if not, please do think about it before you post another thread which maybe taken as hotheaded "complaint" by other people.