{"id":1462,"date":"2010-06-02T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T09:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michael-gelfert.de\/blog\/?p=1462"},"modified":"2015-05-09T19:09:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T17:09:58","slug":"count-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/english\/count-down-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Count down!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Especially in fashion and beauty photography it&#8217;s often about getting the absolutely perfect photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Of course this is not as easy done as said, for example because:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the concept of the picture involves motion, hence a lot of attempts are needed till everything&#8217;s perfect<\/li>\n<li>or the model is (however the reason) kind of asleep at the switch or you simply got the feeling she&#8217;s not quite putting her heart into it.<\/li>\n<li>Maybe the shoot \/ job already took a long time but you&#8217;ve still got important images to take.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1449 aligncenter\" title=\"Fashion-Moods: Extreme Rage\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_3399_Web-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Fashion-Moods: Extreme Rage\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the cases where you could use a very simple, but often very effective, trick to raise the decreasing concentration of the model (or the whole team):<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">The &#8222;Frame-Countdown&#8220;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Works as easy as this: Put the camera aside, <span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">gather the team<\/span> and tell them insistently your still lacking the perfect picture. You should <span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">tell them what part is still missing<\/span>, of course.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">Announce that you&#8217;re taking exactly another 5 (10\/20) frames.<\/span> Call for full concentration.<br \/>\nEspecially at the last frames you should <span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">count loud and clear<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #00ffff;\">call for concentration<\/span> another time (if you still not got the right picture).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1453\" title=\"Ahead (1)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.migel-photo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/IMG_5196_V3_Web-350x212.jpg\" alt=\"Ahead (1)\" width=\"350\" height=\"212\" \/>Of course this doesn&#8217;t work absolutely all the time, but it&#8217;s amazing how often Iwas successful. *g* Both pictures in this article were made in such a frame-countdown (and both were the exactly LAST photograph)!<\/p>\n<p>You can use this trick at the end of a shoot, before a break, the next dress or set, if you got the feeling an extra boost of concentration could be helpful.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Write me a comment: Have you already experience with this &#8222;trick&#8220;?<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Especially in fashion and beauty photography it&#8217;s often about getting the absolutely perfect photograph. Of course this is not as easy done as said, for example because: the concept of the picture involves motion, hence a lot of attempts are needed till everything&#8217;s perfect or the model is (however the reason) kind of asleep at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/english\/count-down-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Count down!<\/span> Weiterlesen &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1217],"tags":[360,355,76,357,359,25,188,111,1288],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"MiGel","author_link":"https:\/\/migel-photo.com\/blog\/author\/migel\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Especially in fashion and beauty photography it&#8217;s often about getting the absolutely perfect photograph. 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