Ellen Von Unwerth...

Well, since I've been a little under the weather, I haven't been able to go out to all the clubs and shoot that much this weekend. I know some of you love to read these blogs and see what was going on from previous days and to you I am sorry. To the others that come to my blog to read or just look at pictures where here is a blog for you. I was surfing the web tonight looking at some work by some of my favorite photographers and a friend of mine was helping me do the same thing. We kind of were doing a random pop quiz at times. Asking each other the type of lighting or settings that were used to achieve a certain shot. Then my friend stumbled upon a picture by one of my favorite photographers, Ellen Von Unwerth. She sent it to me and was like "Abe, I didn't know you were in a shoot with Ellen Von Unwerth and Adriana Lima?!?". So I went to check this photo out and laughed and then thought, what a cool picture.

here's the picture, it made me laugh...


For those of you that don't know who Ellen Von Unwerth is I'll give you a little bio on her. Ellen is your typical Fashion Model turned photographer. She was a professional model for 10 years, while dating her photographer boyfriend. She decided to start snapping shots and other photographers she would shoot with saw her talent. When she decided to stop modeling she started to do shoots of her own and for ad campaigns. Most of her shots always show the female dominating and being sexy, yet strong. A way to always pick out an Ellen Von Unwerth shot is if its black and white with high grain and a little blurry and out of focus. Well at least her old work is like that. She use to use a manual focus camera with high speed film and would just shoot "off her hip". Just talking and interacting with the models, having them basically act out situations and she would just take pictures of the events going on. Another way to tell is that it usually has this vintage pin up feel to them too.

well anyways, sorry again to everyone that wanted to see a picture from me. I will go out and take tons of pictures this week for everyone.

-Abe of Aberazzi