warming up for the ~TLV Fashion week

castro  winter Show 2011

Ford Fashion Super Model & Dior

Vienna 2007

Shot with Gabo (from Spain)

my work for a beauty article in a lifestyle magazine

the magazine article - @xnet.co.il

International Model Gal Gadot on the "Castro" catwalk

This Week I shot the  opening show of the "Castro" winter collection.
The story was featured in the lifestyle online Magazine Xnet.

the crocker shoot

a new media client-sharing shot

a photographing of an actress in the studio

Liron turned to me for new image material.
She wanted new pictures that featured her as an actress, which meant a variety of charecters' moods etc.
When she arrived at the studio, she was very aimable and very co-operative. She managed to losen up rather quickly (as actors do) and we could let our mutual creativity just flow.


We had a make up girl but it was all tuned very fine. also, because the images did not go to a strict comercial use, we were able to maintain a clean and natural look without over-proccessing the images.


here are a few samples:

a photo session with the wonderful actress Hilla Vidor

The images from the shot with actress Hilla Vidor were spectacular.

Her agency loved them and I hope you will too.
We worked on a few defenitive looks and concepts going toward glamour and beauty.
Beeing an actress made it easy for her to slip into different characters for the camera.
She really gives herself to the images.

The lighting was pretty basic, mostly single light bare flashes, white background.

here are some selected images from the shoot

and the portrait in motion

all pictures: ©Siano Ami 2011

an amazing shoot with the wounderful Hilla Vidor

portrait in motion

 

A session with Actress Hilla Vidor. 

She's a talented young actress who plays a wide variety of characters. 

she just fineshed shooting some very successful movies and TV series.

Our shooting, though essentially with a clear concept, touched different characters

once, she was the femme fatale, other times the quiete beauty, a tough lady etc.

Hair & make up was done by the gifted and funny Sharon Maimon.

moving in a new studio

after months of searching, I finaly moved into a new location.
I do not claim that working from home doens't have pros,
but I always believed in a healthy separation between life and work.

So after months of searching and negotiatians I have settled in a nice bright industrial
space among some industrial and office buildings.
Ordered some new furnitures, installed a phone line and internet and I am good to go.

I know there's a lot of hard work a head of me. Convincing the right people
to work with me, to use my skills and my location to achieve the best results.

But I have done this before, so I pretty much have an idea of what is a head...

shooting for a movie poster

A while ago I shot a movie production on the set. I loved shooting the crew setting up gear, the actors getting into character and envisioning a scene. 

I accompanied them in 2 different locations. Got some beautiful shots, some got went as a cover for the PR print. 

As it happens, the whole movie was revised. They had to drop a lot of scenes and reshoot new ones on a new location. The movie is nominated for an important Film prize in Cannes.

So a new Poster image had to be shot. 

so yesterday we drove to the last location and worked on an image that could best represent the new movie.

It was again an interesting process only this time I wasn't really shooting on the "set", I had the actors all to myself so we could focus much better on a certain image and atmosphere. 

It was a beautiful setting and the natural light became more and more attractive, but I decided to emphasize the ambient light with some fill flash held by a voice activated tripod (the make up artist). 

on some images it provided exactly the right "push" to change it from a nice flat image to a more dramatic picture. 

The set was shot with my 5D MK II with the Canon 580EX Flash and a Nikon SB800 in Slave mode on about 1/4 power. 

Film Director: Yarden Karmin
Actrice: Hila Vidor
Actor: Erez Cahana

here are some images from the shooting: