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sifu In reply to TheDevilDeepak [2009-05-28 12:15:50 +0000 UTC]

Well she's an Aussie but she's actually half Chinese, personally I wouldn't have picked it at all (surprising as I have rather an affinity for Asian models)

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TheDevilDeepak In reply to sifu [2009-06-15 09:08:26 +0000 UTC]

Oh! that's great and your kindness.


Can you help me in photography if I have few queries.

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sifu In reply to TheDevilDeepak [2009-06-22 03:52:29 +0000 UTC]

sure, just shoot me through any questions you have. It may take me a while to get back to you as I limit my time on dA, but I always try to save and eventually answer actual questions...

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TheDevilDeepak In reply to sifu [2009-06-22 13:37:35 +0000 UTC]

Hi Dear,
So kind of you as I have no words to say thanks. Here is the link of the pictures which I want to modify [link]

and

[link]

and here is the example which is not sure mine [link]

Can I request to please make the changes for me if possible all is up to you if you want to modify at your own style. Because I want to gift a full size print to my wife on her birthday.

Kind regards,

Thanks Deepak

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sifu In reply to TheDevilDeepak [2009-07-21 16:26:36 +0000 UTC]

Hi Deepak,

I'm sorry but what you are asking there is a great deal of work, even for an image that has been shot specifically to be altered in such a way. A piece such as the one you link to is the result of a careful combination of lighting, framing, posing, composition etc with hours of post production work.

I could certainly improve at least the first of the images of yours (the one that is the clearer of the two) but a/ there is a limit to what can be done with it given that it is a snapshot taken with poor on camera flash and b/ it would take many hours of work, which I charge by the hour for.

Sorry but I just can't work for free.

I hope you understand.

- ben

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TheDevilDeepak In reply to sifu [2009-07-24 06:42:42 +0000 UTC]

Great can you please tell me your hourly charges.

Deepak

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sifu In reply to TheDevilDeepak [2009-07-25 17:01:11 +0000 UTC]

Hey Deepak,

I don't do too much retouch work for others but when I do commercial stuff my rates are $100/hr

For more personal individual work like this without production budgets I would prolly look at halving that. So $50/hr US. I'd budget about 1-2 hrs to bring a shot like that up to it's potential.

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TheDevilDeepak In reply to sifu [2009-08-21 09:28:17 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Sifu for your precious time I will contact you soon.

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sifu In reply to dynamicvelocity [2009-05-28 08:14:05 +0000 UTC]

Your guess is as good as mine hah! I actually shot this months ago, from memory I think I had an octobox on either side with whatever made it there from the mirrors behind me for fill. (my "studio" is a dance hall)

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dynamicvelocity In reply to sifu [2009-05-30 23:02:34 +0000 UTC]

those mirrors would be a mixed blessing (fill, and near uncontrolable relfections).

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sifu In reply to dynamicvelocity [2009-06-01 03:10:11 +0000 UTC]

Yep, hit the nail on the head there. I used to have access to two well setup studios but one went out of business and the other decided to increase his prices 6 fold, yes he actually charges 6 times as much as he used to.

When I'm really serious about a studio shoot I hire out a local city council hall to setup in but as half the gear is permanently set up at the dance studio I just use that most of the time as I'm a lazy prick.

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dynamicvelocity In reply to sifu [2009-06-01 09:26:32 +0000 UTC]

sounds like a fair compromise - i'm getting tierd of hiking every tiny little thing i 'may need' but never use, to on location shoots. The light stands, the umpteen umbrellas, clamps, counterweights, cameras, lenses, laptop etc. And i don't even have monolights - so I can totally understand just shooting where it's easier to do so.

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sifu In reply to aFeinPhoto-com [2009-05-28 08:15:41 +0000 UTC]

Well I shot it back in December or so so it's not really new, but yeah, I need to get more work up here, been slack.

Lighting setup I'm not 100% sure on as it was so long ago but I believe it was an octabox on each side of her with whatever made it back from the mirrors behind me (I shoot in a dance hall) for fill.

Cheers mate

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aFeinPhoto-com In reply to sifu [2009-05-29 08:36:43 +0000 UTC]

Rockin. Yea life gets in the way of submitting. Sure you've been busy and thanks for the heads up w/ the lights. Woohoo

aF

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sifu In reply to Shmelanna [2009-05-28 02:29:43 +0000 UTC]

Actually not so much. The stuff is talc powder and she just had two handfuls of it which she gently threw up in the air just before I took the shot.

Cheers

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Shmelanna In reply to sifu [2009-05-28 04:20:17 +0000 UTC]

ahh, I see. well in any case, well done

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sifu In reply to elroyhavoc [2009-05-28 03:16:34 +0000 UTC]

Cheers mate & unfortunately I don't think that will happen. After this shoot her boyfriend threatened to leave her for shooting nudes (don't get me started on pricks like that)

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elroyhavoc In reply to sifu [2009-05-28 07:43:04 +0000 UTC]

I think that says a lot about her boyfriend and what she needs to do about him. What an asshole.

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sifu In reply to elroyhavoc [2009-05-28 07:48:02 +0000 UTC]

tell me about it

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sifu In reply to young1966 [2009-05-28 03:17:03 +0000 UTC]

That's a pretty vague question, care to be more specific?

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