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+ Behold, the beautiful *missdaisy !
This, I believe, is her first photographic debut (aside from her picture with Ditto) and I think we're both quite happy about it. I've had this idea planned for a while and it felt good to execute it.+ We've still got work to do, though. I didn't know it at the time, but poor Jensey was holding one of my lenses in her hand when she threw the papers in the air. In the next shoot, there'll be more papers and less lens-holding.
(and maybe another daisy in the picture!)+ Enjoy!
+ Update: Just updating the product listing for this. Mugs, magnets, mouse pads, coasters, more print sizes, etc.
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that is a good capture, and i like how the light only seems to come from behind her
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This is so beautiful! I'm obsessed with pictures of sunsets, and this is lovely. Overall, it's just a gorgeous shot.
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Really suits the title
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hehehe really nice one.....coposition and colour 
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I love this, so carefree and wild... just plain wonderful!
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Oh it's beautiful! It gives you such a carefree feeling too 
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Sorry it's taken me so long to get around to commenting on this. I've been through a month of straight hell lately so I've been really bad on comments.
I wish I could feel what this photograph represents, I wish I could put myself into it. I love the lighting you decided to wait for with this. Taken just an hour before or an hour later and it wouldn't have worked right.
The landscaping goes up, which furthers the enlightened and floating feel of the photo. Most photos with landscapes like this just look crooked or cockeyed but this works. I think it would be better without the lense in her hand so you could see her fingers spread in the air, but I guess that's just a live and learn kind of thing.
Best wishes to you and your lady.
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Thanks for noticing the landscape tilt to this. heh, I wondered if I should have edited it, but I agree...it feels like a ramping to the subject, an elevating...then to the floating.
Next time we get such a sunset opportunity, there will be no lense holding.
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Wonderful capture! Its like how I felt at the end of this semester 
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Holy shit! Really nice really really nice work. Nice positioning, awesome sunset, and someone with a nice figure for a siluet. 
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this is a cool shot
The sillouette and the sky are very nice.
-m
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nice mate, conveys emotuion damn well, and im in the middle of exams right now so this is what i want to see
anyways, as far as constructive critism goes, i cant say much, its looking a little washed out and faded if you know what i mean, so mybe up the contrast, but - i like it this way
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omg dude
this is a cool shot
besides the lens holding
hehe
anyway
you executed this soooo well
i really love it ...
kinda reminds me of cell phone bills comericals ... to some extent atleast
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"kinda reminds me of cell phone bills comericals ... to some extent atleast" The whole being free idea, I guess? I can see that :-p There should be some ad-text fading in right about...now! hehe
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very nice idea, i like this black silouhet (sp?) in front of this gorgeous sunset. but having her hold your lens ... you like danger don't you ?
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hehe well that's pretty interesting. It looks like the area is a big open field of grass, which provides some problems in my head. but not too big of a deal. This photo really does have that "It's finally over!" feeling to it. I think you portrayed what you where trying to well but there's still some confusing things in my head. I think it's just the open field and the natural surrounding with the mixture of urban school work.
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I thought that's me at a moment..but I just almost don't ware skirts
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oooh that silhouette with that sky
is just amazing
lens in hand or not.. its still an amazing capture!
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Looks pretty great.
I really like how those objects look like they are positioned exactly to be there, if that makes any sence at all. And of course the espression from * missdaisy is just really sets this piece and her silhouette.
The only thing I don't like in this photo, is how her hand came out, looks like a fist.
An excellent capture though.
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Nate... you win hands down with this one
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Reminds me of an old movie called "The Paper Chase". Have you seen it?
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Can't say I've seen it. I take it paper and wind is involved?
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Yup, those and Harvard law school if I remember correctly.
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good lord what a sky
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I felt like doing this all week. It's my last year of school, and in fact, tomorrow is my last day of classes ever. I've never been so stressed in my entire life. I was about to do a journal entry about my last few days, but i got sidetracked by this wonderful piece. So, from me, to you,
Great work.
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Jeez, and I didn't even go on and on about the visual expressiveness of her pose, and she deserves HUGE credit for that. Of COURSE her own fluid abandon is the ultimate power of this image...
So pardon my previous critical negligence: the most critical and wonderful element of your result is your co-conspirator herself.
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Nathan, this has got to be among the most stunning and marvelous pieces you've ever done. I am positively floored.
Is the lens a problem? Sort of. It makes that hand seem like a fist, and that's relatively contrary to what you've got going on. But it also adds a dimension of complication to the symbology, so it's not all bad. (If you hadn't mentioned it, we'd surely all be knocking ourselves out trying to figure out what you intended with it, and that wouldn't entirely suck. 
Other than that, sheer brilliance, to my eye. Many mention liking the silhouettte, but not why. It's that by reducing away the photorealistic depth to your subject, you iconicize her instead. People are drawn to that because they can more easily insert themselves into the result, and for an image so sweeping as this, it's magically successful.
I think the sky exposure is plenty perfect enough for me. The conjunction of clouds to her hand motions (esp. the rightward one) is wonderful, and I lean toward "darker rather than lighter" precisely for the key brights shining out better as they do here.
My main concern, going right down to your fundamental concept, is that I think this probably would have benefit from being aimed the other way, with her expression aimed rightward "into the future" rather than leftward "into the past." Simply flipping this result is too late - you took the shot and it's most correct this way (I checked) - but it'd be something to keep in mind in the future (no pun intended.) Fortunately, though, this image is so fantastic that what might sink a lesser execution is merely a trivial concern in this case - your single conceptual flaw is completely overcome by the dazzling result.
Stunning from you, Nathan, perhaps the most beautifully artistic thing I've ever seen you do.
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and then you go on about my 'fun' comments.
if you produce stuff like this, and i didn't comment well, i would kick myself in the ass.
well, i can't exactly do that, so i'd get somebody else to.
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you were one of the first ppl on dA i knew, before i joined even.
you and *hawkboi were amazing-as-fuck photographers, but i really liked your sunset shots (if you have any and i'm not confusing you with someone else) and silhouettes too.
this is nothing less.
really gorgeous nate.
so much energy and life in the shot; the sunset, the clouds, the model, all have so much life in them.
silhouettes i feel, bring out more than intended of something, and always bring out more life.
and yet again, this is nothing else.
jensey really does seem carefree and happy and full of life and movement and energy.
the sunset is really beautiful, to me, because only one (well two, but it's kinda the same one) cloud is really lit up with the light of the setting sun.
which really makes it so much more, different and unique.
i really like your shots nate, because not only are the awesome to look at, i'm usually looking for something different and unique in them, and most of them time, i get that unique thing, which i guess is one of the pros of watching you.
now, if you'll excuse me, i have do 20 lines of french, so i don't fail.
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Awesome shot. I'd say more, but I'm pissed off and tired.
Sorry.
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a great idea for a photo
it looks far better than a normal sunset photo
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definitely caught missdaisy in a nice pose, that's priceless
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I've always loved such shadow "cut out" pictures
The sunset looks amazing too, looks too surreal
I love it
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I like the pose.. it's feminine enough but I agree that her hand would be way better sans the lens. For some reason I find myself wishing the photo were taken earlier on during the sunset, as it's a bit grey and dark. Not that it isn't beautiful, but it doesn't give that total, 100%.... whatever it's supposed to give. I keep looking at it and keep thinking it's too grey and it makes me sad. 
Anyway it's a beautiful photo and an awesome concept. Wish I'd have come up with it! (*kicks imagination into gear*)
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The atmosphere is absolutely wonderful. I imagine she's going to strip next and run to the sea (sans the lens) and swim with the dolphins.
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Wow, nice I quite like it. Very well executed. I like how it's quite light around the area she is.
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very lovely capture of the sky and colors are beautiful.
I like the idea , the fact that she appears as a dark sillouette, although i would really love it if she was in a more *feminine* pose...like her legs more close to eachother. Thats just my opinion, though
Its a lovely shot !
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The papers add so much motion to the silloughette.
and the black on the colors in the sky is really beautiful 8)
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very cool. i love the way she's a complete sillouette against the sky. its a very nice effect. and i like the idea of throwing away paper, very cool composition all together
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absolutly amazing work...puts my sunset work to shame! +fav.
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