Saturday, June 30, 2012

Dior ADDICT



In my opinion selling fragrance over images or moving image isn't easy job. Why isn't that easy, well how can one sell a smell with out making the audience smelling it?
So what they aim in here is to sell the life style of the subject/girl presented in the Ad. 
Let's look closer to the moving image/"video" . . . 
Count of characters and how many of them are make and how many of them are female ? 
-Well there is only one female character who appears to be the main character and many male characters.
Does the main character uses the product presented in the ad? 
Yes she uses the product. 
If yes what changes happen once she uses the product? 
The form and speed of entire video changes, putting her in the centre of the attention of all men. Suddenly it is like the world turns around her, and she is who she is, young, beautiful, flirty and  bit rebellious girl. 

Is she going after one men? or flirting with only one men? No All she does is spays the parfume and dances her way in to a bar/cafe and changes music, shows a bit of her ASS while dancing and all the men are dancing with her. 
Long story short, Dior aims to sell the life of this beautiful model, a life with out any sadness/problems, a life with  lots of attention of men, a life that you are the center of it. 
Of course this add doesn't make you go out and buy the product right after watching but it makes the audience curious. Curious of how this fragrance smell because boys want her and girls want to be her well (not everyone because this ad targets certain audience in age and class/lifestyle) 

Ps. I love the part where she has a cat on hear head, nice use of kitty meme. (this also shows that the audience of this ad is younger generations 16-26 maybe?)


Sunday, June 24, 2012

Style Hunting - Hat, Shades, Bag, Shoes

Yep you heard it right STYLE HUNTING is back in the menu. 
It has been so long I haven't get out there and look for stylish people.
When I saw this gentlemen I wasn't planning to find stylish people and photographing them but who cares about planning about style hunting it just happens and you spot some one and say thats it he/she is the one.
All I had with me was Minolta X-700 + 50mm 1.7 attached to it with Fuji C-200 film loaded, I said "hhmm this should do . . . Now should I ask him to take his photo or snap it from the angle I like and run like a Gorilla?" and I snapped from the angle I like then looked around me  and see people staring at me and then I stared back at them.


YES the film is POORLY SCANNED what do you expect from my holiday film scanner (made for travelling) 



I like that he is actually wearing something different than blue, gray, and black because here in London the weather is so boring it make the peoples cloths boring, it might look like that day was nice but in fact it rained 1 hour after I took that photo. 

Saturday, June 16, 2012

SnapFocus

Kickstarter Project to Revolutionize Filmmaking from MidasMount on Vimeo.


Wow this thing looks useful but look at it, that thing looks like a transformer.
One thing for sure that it will make all the other products for focusing look like a toy.

With this product I think we will see lots of cinematic YouTube videos.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

Shoot me like "Terry"

Going Bonkers

After Full day of beauty shoot we (makeup artist, model and I) decided to Drink and Smoke Sisha, During that time I had a Camera and a Flash + Small softbox.
Model asked me to take photos like "Terry" I sad OK but I lit it different way and yet get similar photos. This is the outcome . . .

Influence: Alcohol + FreeTime + Youth 

Totally random art-direction, in this diptych we didn't think of any story, influence, inspiration, or anything else but yet one can always look up on the photographs and make up a story.




Camera: Nikon D700 + Nikkor 24-70
Photographer: Bruce (Me)
Makeup artist: Laura Kate Rzemienicka
Model: Dasha

Thursday, June 7, 2012

SB900 Vs. SB910 - Which one is better for me

Before I write anything I'd like to state that I will not compare these 2 flashes on which one overheats faster than the other. If you want to see that just write SB900 Vs SB910 on youtube, tons videos should come up about that. 



This is a long post if you are interested please click on "read more" below.

Wild American Eagle Models

I could not stop laughing when I watched this video. 
Takes the wildlife and fashion photography to another level. 



Monday, June 4, 2012

If Angels CRY

Fashion Photography Beauty Test Shoot



Photographer: Bugra Ergil (Bruce)
Makeup Artist: Laura Kate Rzemieniecka
Model: Stephanie
Assistant: Anup K Pandey
Camera: Mamiya RZ67 ProII + 127mm 
Film: Kodak Portra 160 ISO 

This photo was taken with Mamiya RZ67 ProII to compare with the digital for testing the differences/similarities.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Fashion and Memes ? ? ?

Can such things like Memes change or influence Fashion OR can Fashion influence memes ?


Lets start with Nick Knight

As we all know that Nick Knight did a photoshoot for Instagram.
Well for those who don't know what is Instagram well I can say one thing, you are lucky. Its basically this hipster photo program for Iphone the ultimate hipster phone. The photoshoot was influenced over the internet Memes thus the instagram was a perfect tool for this shoot.
And here are some of the photos he took.

This Post is long so if you are interested click to see the rest on the link below