Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Revealing Images: Angie Pontani

In Revealing Images, photographer Don Spiro dishes up sweet photographic treats and the stories behind them. Today, Don aims his lens at 2008's Miss Exotic World Angie Pontani.



A lot of the work I’ve described in past columns involves shooting costumes, situations, and even some men. To get back to the tongue-in-cheek title of “Revealing Images” I’ll examine a photo that implies what everyone really wants, a beautiful nude young woman. In this case, the subject is one of my favorite models, Miss Angie Pontani, Miss Exotic World 2008, and continual Miss Cyclone.

This shot was done in Angie’s apartment in Brooklyn. She had a tiara and had meticulously rhinestoned a sash that read “Miss Cylcone” and wanted some shots with those items and little else but make up and a smile. She already had a bright blue backdrop that that just fit her living room, all I needed to do was set it up, light it, and shoot some photos.

For each pose I would adjust the lights, raising and lowering them and moving them around depending on where Angie was facing and how she positioned her body to the camera. I shot everything from full body shots to tight close-ups, determined by what looked best through the lens.

This shot was created with a digital camera and three strobe lights. One was placed as a key light high and to the left of camera, bounced into a reflector. Angie turned her face right to it. A second soft source was placed close to the camera to soften the already soft shadows and highlight her tiara, eyes, rhinestones and smile. A third light was set further back and aimed just at the background to eliminate any of Angie’s shadows and to create a uniform tone of blue.

Angie discreetly positioned the sash and her hand to make the image suitable for all ages. I checked through the lens to make sure the framing was just right, and happy with the work, snapped another portrait of Miss Cyclone.

~Don Spiro

6 comments:

Monty Leman said...

Thanks for publishing these articles with Don - it's great to hear how he does his work, and as a photographer, I appreciate that they aren't dumbed down either.

Unknown said...

The worst part is replica louis vuitton handbags came into existence and it became difficult to distinguish them from the real ones. People often purchase the imitation discount louis vuitton bags without knowing the difference. This louis vuitton mens wallet entered the market by selling luggage items.

Unknown said...

The Cosmonaute features a Breitling Navitimer
, officially watch-certified by the COSC ( like all Montbrillant Datora
). The crystals in Breitling Avenger
and chronographs are made of scratch resistant cobalt. Chrono Superocean
has nominated to effect a limited series of the scale model.

Tiffany jewellery
are a household word more than a century later and remain a great choice. The Tiffany rings
designs are timeless. silver rings
drew upon his love of nature for his original designs, Tiffany earrings
saw the opportunity to take his beautiful stained glass creations and offer them in a functional art object.

Unknown said...

Despite a attainment of a public line, has helped hermes handbags continues a convention of a qualification to safeguard commitment any member to higher craftsmanship tip. Every singular veteran can try a bag Hermes Evelyne during a same time. All bags can set up about 18-24 hours. hermes scarf have been calculable as well as wanting resources from as well as value, for e.g., costly metals, silk, tanned hide, and crocodile, alligator, lizard as well as shark, as well as bovine animal skin, which you all enlarge a lure of handbags.
Along with the daidaihua , you will also receive these following products: free toning belt for your waist and abs, free quality e-books, free online exercise guidelines for you and an online customer support for you 24/7. lida , according to its consumers, lida daidaihua also has no known side effect unlike some other pills that would have side effects such as excess urination, diarrhea and constipation. Just make sure that when you take lida slimming , combine slimming capsule with a meal and exercise for effectiveness. And then watch your fats melt away. slimming capsules is best.

123 said...

http://blips.com/outdoorblips/profile/lvlv/
http://bluelakemark.info/user/history/lv123/
http://bobrdobr.ru/people/breitling123/
http://bobrdobr.ru/people/Chanel123/
http://bobrdobr.ru/people/hermes123/
http://bobrdobr.ru/search/?keywords=http://www.bootpoint.com/+
http://bobrdobr.ru/search/?keywords=http://www.freebootsgift.com/+
http://bookmark.ballrich.com/search/http://www.bootpoint.com/
http://bookmark.ballrich.com/search/http://www.freebootsgift.com/
http://bookmark.ballrich.com/tag/collection

Kenny said...

Hi everybody!
Today I will share with you the best wallpaper in 2018. You will see pictures, experience the beautiful pictures. You can refer to and see more instructions download wallpaper for your phone.

Top 5 hottest wallpapers of 2018:
https://colorwallpaper.net/girls/
https://colorwallpaper.net/sexy-girl-wallpaper/
https://colorwallpaper.net/style-girl-wallpaper/
https://colorwallpaper.net/beautiful-girl-wallpaper/
https://colorwallpaper.net/angelina-jolie-wallpaper/
All wallpapers are free to download. To learn more about the latest wallpapers, you can visit the homepage:https://colorwallpaper.net/