The first part of the shooting was shot outside a train station transformed into a gigantic mall and restaurant. The session took place in the time from afternoon until evening.

The second part of the shooting took place inside the mall & restaurant. There Alessandro wanted to get a a more sensual and elegant look. He used the same set-up here for camera and lens; the lighting was also provided by a single Speedlite (Canon 430 EXII), but this time in a 90x60cm softbox and with a 1/4 CTO Gel for balance the ambient light (more tungsten-like).
 
Thanks to both of you, Alessandro and Eleonora for giving us the opportunity to showcase these amazing set her in Streetfashion MagZZine.

For Harry Wilcken this session is a part of his project of street portrait photography, he is working on since summer 2016. The goal of these sessions is to put the models in emblematic / most visited / well-known places of the city and make some portraits. Sometimes Harry works with a Make up artist, but he likes the models to be who they are, wearing their own clothes doing their make up and hair, and posing natural.

Model Lindsey Duinmayer  according to Harry is a young, beautiful, funny, extroverted and easy-going person, even she doesn’t like to smile very often.  A really good model to work with, nice long legs & sexy look.

Harry is processing almost the same way for each and every model he works with:

• Contact / invitation to be a part of the project
• Send a copy of the contract
• Ask for some photos of the outfits they want to wear for the session
• Scouting (Harry goes to the city to see the actual situation of the streets to check for construction works or events in planning)
• Selection of date, usually on a Saturday
• With all the above information, Harry makes a plan and a route for the session.

They use 4, 5 and sometimes 6 locations and the model changes outfits constantly.

As mentioned above, Harry chooses 4 to 6 different locations (close to each other). He tries to use places people visit the most, places full of history and /or with architectural interest. Old and new, no distictions.

For the project Harry uses a Nikon D-810, one prime lens Nikon 85mm 1.8 (back-up camera = Nikon D-300 with a 50mm 1.4 lens) and works with available light plus two off–camera flash units (Nikon) on tripods. As light modifiers he uses 40x40 cm softbox, snoot, grid.

For the post processing Harry tries to avoid editing the images. Lens correction and white balances are mandatory. A small correction to highlights and shadows when necessary. For the rest, he leave the images as they were taken.

Streetfashion MagZZine featured him already beginning of last year. Photographer Andreas-Joachim Lins is regularly uploading his photos to Streetfashion MagZZine's Flickr group. In case of the photo, we like to show you today, Andreas and model Julia Kashchuk wanted to do a summer shooting in August 2016 at the Steinhuder Meer. The goal was to remain as natural as possible in the scenes and the lighting. Neither bouncing nor flashning are used. Instead, we searched for scenes, where we could avoid light shadows on Julia's face as much as possible. "Everything under the motto: keep it simple and natural" so Andreas. For the shoot he was equipped with a Canon 5D Mark III and a 35mm Sigma ART lens at F1.8.

Thanks to Andreas for giving us the opportunity to show this beautiful photo in Streetfashion MagZZine.

Just today we discovered a photo in Streetfashion MagZZine's Flickr-group. It was taken by Wilson Gonzales, a photographer from Singapore, whom we already featured two years ago. The concept of the photo is a street style photoshoot. According to Wilson there was not much planning done for this shot. He just had a reference photo and showed it to model Dinara A. and her agency, Upfront Models Singapore, and then they were good to go.

Wilson has asked Russian model Dinara, which clothes she has and to bring those with her to the agreed location. He has chosen to shoot on a Sunday morning, so that there would be less people around. They have done the shoot somewhere in Clarke Quay, Singapore, which is perfect for casual street style. Wilson has used his current gear, which is a Nikon D610 and a Nikon 85mm f1.8G. In case of this shot he hasn't used any artificial lighting, cause they wre constantly moving. Dinara's make up was done by none other than make up artist Kath Guanzon, who made a great job on the natural looks.

The photography session was held in the center of Mexico City ... a multicultural city full of flavors, colors, eyes and steps ... The foreign influence is visible and adapted in all the surroundings, the natural, the urban and the classic.

"Play, Explore and Have Fun ... As a photographer I am a follower of exploring beyond and with eyes of the heart. I like the philosophy of learning by doing". so Luigi Sotres.

Model Izumy is a "Hueso Colorado" athlete (born with passion), a way of saying, that her whole life has made and improved by the art of controlling her body. She's a dancer, gymnast, athlete and model.

Luigi continues "It was fun and very easy for her to transform into modeling. We had fun as two children exploring for the first time photography and reflection".

The session tries to project the human ability, the simplicity of life, and the fragitlity of life ... a simple movement alters all reality, a simple thought leads us to imagine beyond the stars, a simple dance connects us with the cosmos ... the work of Luis Sotres is, so Luigi "always to transmit and connect to the infinite cosmos with our life on earth and the presence of creative love in each one of us."

Luigi ends with the words "Philosophy is created from these pictures, that we achieve and with love, taste and passion we hope to reach your minds ..."

You already have seen this photo on our first cover in 2017. For all, who like to know more about it, we here provide some additional info:

"Phoenix Aperture and Hapa Clothing originally wanted to collaborate on a look book for Hapa Clothing’s 2016 summer lookbook. We hired Amber as our model, and we went to Joshua Tree, California, for that desert and summer look. It so happened that the day was perfectly sunny with clouds providing a beautiful backdrop. Dali Ma, the photographer, asked Amber to present a wanderer’s look, adventuring alone in the desert.

Dali Ma aimed for his trademark outdoor high fashion style, with lifestyle photos incorporated in the set and concept. With Hapa Clothing’s beautiful floral summer styles, Dali and Amber were able to create a set that has depth, enthusiasm, as well as intimacy. Click here to view the entire album."