Moonfirefoto's photostream  

All rights are reserved on my photos here. If you want to use any of my images, please ask.

The ladies who appear in most of my images are people who I've had the pleasure to meet, know and photograph with their consent. Please feel free to enjoy their beauty in a respectful way. I will delete and block any inappropriate comments and people who I deem to contravene these simple guidelines. Block heads and foot fetish people, yep, I'm probably gonna delete and block you.

To group administrators: Please don't bother to invite my photos to your group if it is about fetishes or features provocative nude images. I will turn your requests down. I don't want my images or models associated with that type of content.

As you can see from the images here, my main interest is photographing attractive women and Asian women in particular to capture their alluring beauty.

Many of my photos here are SOOC (crop only) and the first 500 or so photos here were shot with fully manual settings. I shoot in JPEG because I'm not one to do a lot of post processing. What you see here is pretty much what I shot with a few exceptions.

To those who think you need to spend a lot of money on expensive cameras, lenses and equipment- I have a total of about $2200 invested in 2 cameras, glass, remotes, filters, flashes, tripods and studio backdrops and lights- all purchased new or made by me. You can learn the basics and take some pretty nice photos on a budget and it's amazing how good entry level SLRs are these days. I learn something new every time I shoot. Of course working with beautiful, talented models makes my shots look better than they are in many cases!

I have made some great friends and contacts through photography and I enjoy meeting and getting to know each model and their unique stories and personalities as much as I do photographing them. I have been very fortunate to be able to work with such nice and beautiful women. Thank you to all the models who have posed for me here.

Thank you to everyone who has commented on my photos and made many your favorites. Stream views passed 10000 for the first year with over 41,000 total image views and 140,000 total views as of Feb. 2012. Who knew pretty girls would be such a popular subject!

I hope you continue to enjoy my images.

Ross

What I'm Shooting With

Canon EOS XS
Canon EOS T3i (new on Oct. 19/11)
EFS 18-55 IS II f3.5
EFS 55-250 IS f4.0
EF 50 f1.8
EF 18-55 f3.5 with el cheapo .42X fisheye converter
Fotga UV filters
Solingor tripods
YN-560 Speedlites
RF-602 2.4 Ghz remotes
MK I eyeball

Studio

Lighting- 5X 23W CFL 5000K bulbs on homemade light bar plus 2 free standing lamps with diffusers running 23W CFL 5000K bulbs

Backdrops- black, white, grey and blue sheets from Walmart
on homemade frame.

Editing

I edit with Photoscape (yup I'm cheap and weird).