Making Magic with Viktoria

April 17, 2014 Filed inBlack and White,Creative,Model,Photography,Photoshop

blog_17_april_2014I’ve always had a penchant for ballerinas …. probably one of those missed childhood moments where you took ballet school for a few weeks and then for one reason or another you were dealt the cheaper option of piano lessons instead.

Through the gift of my camera lens I get to relive a few of those moments, quite vicariously I admit but I always find them inspiring.

Viktoria is an internationally reknowned model that I first shot in NYC, by way of one of my fabulous Meetup Groups there and I have actually “booked” her to shoot with me in IN the BIG  APPLE in a few weeks time and I am quite chuffed at the prospect.

Also I have created one of those INFamous LIKE pages for my Photography, so if you are inclined, then feel free to stop by …. Marie Otero Photography on Facebook and give me a LIKE if you can!

AND…. you can find the non PG version of the Ballet Dancer at 500px.

(I seem to have come a long way away from creating Mixed Media and writing for Stampington and Cloth Paper Scissors….. I guess that’s good?)

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Bren - Such an elegance to their bodies and movements, wonderful images

joanne thieme huffman - Ballerinas are such a fascinating subject. Beautiful pieces.

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A Lady in Waiting….

April 15, 2014 Filed inThoughts

blog_15_april-2014Sadly I have discovered no good Cloud backup solutions and so to preserve some degree of redundancy I’ve added another 4TB hard drive to the Back Up programme.  There are other backups of the BACKUPs but this whole data management thing is proving to be quite a headache.  There are no really good solutions for folk like me who have GB’s of data and large files, without resorting to corporate pricing strategies that still don’t really account for data hogs like myself.

If anyone has any better solutions I’d be glad to hear of them!!!

In the meantime, I will be backing up my backup to give me one more Terabite of space, which by my calculation and shooting rate will last me 3 months, if that!

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Joanne Thieme Huffman - Gee, I thought I had storage problems.

Chris - Holy shit!

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Capturing Candid Moments

April 14, 2014 Filed inBlack and White,Lake Norman,North Carolina,People,Photography

blog_14_april_a_2014The Spring sunshine has been turned on the last few days and what better way to spend a few hours outdoors than strolling around the Scottish Festival at Rural Hills.   My candid “snapping” skills felt a bit rusty as I’ve been thinking so much about landscapey and model pictures of late but there were plenty of interesting people to take pictures of and folk generally more than willing to have their picture taken.

Aside from kilts and bag pipes galore, there were also quite a few awesome beards to be seen…..

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Joanne Thieme Huffman - Looks like a great day for photos (*sigh* it snowed here last night).

Bren - These are wonderful! Great candid moments

Chris - You know, I’m not a big fan of beards, but these look amazing the way you’ve taken them. Lovely. Feels like a good texture/pattern inspiration will take off over here!

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New Orleans Street

April 11, 2014 Filed inNew Orleans,Out And About,People,Photography,Photoshop,Travel

blog_11_april_2014Changing pace from Ireland to New Orleans and jaxing down Bourborn and Royal Street  – the camera fodder was incredible.  As much as I love super scenery and stellar landscapes, there is nothing like using the camera as a journalistic tool to document people, expressions and/or ….. our obsession with the hand held devices!  Gives the game I-spy or was it EYE spy a whole new meaning!…..

New Orleans also seems to be the only City in the world where you can meander around with a long tall (alcoholic) beverage in hand and no-one pays a nevermind……

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Joanne Thieme Huffman - Such a cool representation of New Orleans.

Donna - You must have been here for the French Quarter Festival. Always great photo opportunities and no one minds their picture being taken!

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A Little Painterly Play

April 10, 2014 Filed inCreative,Digital Painting,Ireland,Photography,Photoshop,Travel

blog_10_april_2014I spent most of the day today with a friend chasing Cherry Blossoms in the hopes of finding a decent spot for a photo shoot- sadly our efforts were in vain – last week’s wind and rain having done and dusted each and every petal … dreat!

The late afternoon was occupied with teaching – I seem to be garnering a growing number of private students who want to learn Photoshop and it’s keeping me quite busy!

And so that left the evening for some creative “play”.  Still trolling through images from Ireland and looking at what to do with the less than stellar in camera captues which still have merit when it comes to compositing and painting.  This image was created with a shot of swans at St Stephens Green in Dublin  on a wet and rainy day, coupled with some trees and clouds shot near Dunguaire Castle.

Not quite the classic heart pose,  that would have been a bit trite!

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Alison - What a very tranquil Picture OXOX M

Joanne Thieme Huffman - Lovely image. I’m not at all surprised that you’re in demand as a teacher.

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