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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 0:01:31 GMT -5
Post by herron on Jan 24, 2006 0:01:31 GMT -5
Found this image from my college days this evening. This is Ilsa, who also did some modeling for the photo class (and looked a lot nicer than Fred the Poet)! ;D It's from a 2-1/4 Kodak neg, so I'm thinking it was taken with a Mamiyaflex C2 that I had on loan about 1967. Ilsa, the young lady in the picture, if she is still with us, would be in her mid-70's now.... I cropped this somewhat from its square negative format when I scanned it.
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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 7:54:06 GMT -5
Post by Randy on Jan 24, 2006 7:54:06 GMT -5
Wow! I'll bet Ilsa is a sexy senior citizen!
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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 9:19:17 GMT -5
Post by PeterW on Jan 24, 2006 9:19:17 GMT -5
Hi Ron,
You've shown us some really good portraits over the past few days, so much better than the average offering you see in the windows of High Street portrait studios who just dump sitters under a pre-set lighting arrangement with the camera always in the same position. You've really captured the person's character. I've enjoyed looking at them. Thanks.
So Ilsa's now in her mid 70s eh? Hmm. I'm a young 77 - don't happen to have her phone number do you? GRRRRR!!! ;D ;D.
Peter
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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 14:10:12 GMT -5
Post by John Parry on Jan 24, 2006 14:10:12 GMT -5
Yup,
We like Ilsa!!
Regards - John
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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 15:14:05 GMT -5
Post by herron on Jan 24, 2006 15:14:05 GMT -5
So Ilsa's now in her mid 70s eh? Hmm. I'm a young 77 - don't happen to have her phone number do you? GRRRRR!!! ;D ;D. LOLOL!!! ;D Yep...that's what we all thought back then. ;D Ilsa was married (that was a good-sized rock on her finger for back then), and about 32-33 at the time (so I guess I mis-calculated a little, Peter, she would only be about 71-72 now!) Imagine the effect she had on an impressionable 19-year-old photographer! Especially with those legs in the day of the micro-mini skirt!
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ilsa
Jan 24, 2006 18:26:00 GMT -5
Post by John Parry on Jan 24, 2006 18:26:00 GMT -5
Come on Ron - what does it matter how old she would be?
To you she will always be the girl in that photograph, just as Marilyn will always be stood on that grating!
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ilsa
Jan 25, 2006 16:06:53 GMT -5
Post by kamera on Jan 25, 2006 16:06:53 GMT -5
Ron,
I know exactly what you mean referring to the "19 year old photographer"...LOL! I recall when I had graduated from college and taken a workshop with live models at the Rochester Institue of Photography in Rochester, NY, in 1967. I had a hard time concentrating when photographing the women models...was much easier to task down on assignments when we had the male models.
Truthfully...when I photographed Jenny in the thread "followup to snow shovelling" I had a hard time concentrating even though her husband and Jeaneatte were present. She is in her mid-twentys and this ol' man still appreciates a good-lookin' woman.
You may recall Jenny was the neighbor girl we 'adopted' as our daughter and I posted the pics of her shovelling snow.
I am not sure you even saw the followup pic as John was the only one I received any comments from(however I did not ask for comments or post it in Critique so I am NOT complaining as has been suggested in the past, but only making a comment). Even though she is a graduate nurse(who is waiting to see her board scores now) she still wants to keep active her modeling portfolio.
When doing any such shots or razzy(no porno) ones I always have a male accompany the subject and a female(wife or friend) accompany me. Just a safeguard for both of us.
Jenny has the young, innocent look and your model has the older sexy look.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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ilsa
Jan 25, 2006 18:54:05 GMT -5
Post by John Parry on Jan 25, 2006 18:54:05 GMT -5
Nice work if you can get it Ron!!
John
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ilsa
Jan 25, 2006 21:17:15 GMT -5
Post by kamera on Jan 25, 2006 21:17:15 GMT -5
Well, John...
Nice work for some 'pin' money so as to have more to spend on the hobby or buy wifey a special gift.
I do not charge Jenny though as she helps out a lot with my wife when I have staffing problems. We just enjoy helping each other and she is like a daughter to us.
It all started last Spring when I did a shoot for a friend's granddaughter, then progressed to her cousin who happened to be in a sorority at Western Michigan University here in Kalamazoo.
Before I knew it...the girls in the sorority(all 26 others of them) all wanted either 'informal' or razzy/suggestive pics of themselves for boyfriends and who knows what else. It was fun but a little more than I had bargained for. It really became necessary to have chaperones, check ID's/birth certificates, obtain model releases, obtain a variety of outdoor shooting sites, and deal with 26 different photo files.
That all ended with late Fall, 2005, and I have NO intentions of playing the game again. Let me do my street and scenic shots.
Even though the wifey profited by it with some gifts, she did not really like the idea and has strongly stressed she does not want me to continue with such. It was all kind of like the workshop at RIT, did some work for a short time and then had no more interest in it.
Kind of like the old stereotype of a travelling salesman having a lot of fun and a girl in every port so to speak. That ain't what it is, believe me.
Ron Head Kalamazoo, MI
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ilsa
Jan 25, 2006 21:46:28 GMT -5
Post by luke on Jan 25, 2006 21:46:28 GMT -5
Absolutely Ron. As my dearly departed Mum would say "It's all fun and games until....."
Luke
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