This is sooo cool to watch you work on those amazing self-portraits which i love for years.

@elsvanopstal

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Aww glad you liked it! ^^

Beautiful Els, what a fun and creative shoot. Love the blending of the rain coat to bring creative and beautiful shot of the beauty worth and love of the beautiful woman you are and the beautiful surrounding of the flowers. Love the view at about 2:26 into the video that the mirror with the flower in it and the beauty of your pose brought out what I seen as some lovely shots of the beautiful you. Shot that where beautiful and caught my eye of the beautiful work in this lovely video. These are the timelines shot I'm referring to, 3:37, 3:54, 4:07, 4:26, 4:31 (really love this one as such pureness and radiant beauty with a splash of the beautiful flowers and the bright color of you raincoat that your pure true and naturally soft and tender beauty shines of the youthfully beautiful woman you truly are). And loved the older lens as boca created some wonderfully beauty behind you that brought out the color of your caot that made those beautiful hair, the soft tender complexion of your lovely skin and the beautiful eye creating a moving and lovely photo of the radiant pureness of the heart of love that shines from those beautiful eyes. As for the last two at 8:52 and 9:02 they are truly beautiful but would have been I believe even more beautiful if maybe you had a second tripod or may a stand that would allow the mirror to be on that you arm could be at you side giving a more moving and beautiful shot of you surrounded by the beauty of nature and the reflection of your lovely face and hair reflecting in the mirror that using a tripod or stand you your body would block the view of the stand or tripod giving you a moving and more open shot without cropping or your arm being seen to hold the mirror that would give you that floating reflection or like a reflection of your beauty from another angle yet seen as one shot. Overall once again another beautiful video and the moving beauty of the beauty worth and love of the beautiful woman you truly are. For it's also looked as if it was a wonder and beautiful day for two that may he know see and feel the beauty worth and love of which you are in the radiantly beautiful woman that not only is seen outwardly but even more of where her true pure and real beauty worth and love is found. In your heart and radiantly pure soft and beautifully seen in those beautiful eyes. Another beautiful video beautiful Els with a splash of fun and love thrown in I would say. As for that tripod not sure on that model but you might and unscrew that collar that it may slide upward that maybe a rubber washer may need to be replaced or may you remove that section to give it a good cleaning as saltwater and sand are harsh on those kind of tripods I found out and when to the clamp kind myself. Also not sure because of angle but looked like section maybe was a little bent which it will always have this sticking issue for sure as you'll never be able to get it back to original shape. But just a little info that maybe may help and maybe just soaking in freah water with a good rinsing might work too. Be safe and let your creative and radiant beauty continue to shine and flow from the precious heart of the beauty worth and love of the beautiful woman you are.

@elsvanopstal

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Hi Steve, thank you for your in depth comment! :) Maybe I will try another shoot where I actually mount the mirror on a tripod, could be an interesting idea! I was already using two tripods to make the photos and film so I didn't have a spare one. :) The tripod leg was actually a bit bent, Gregory managed to scrape a bit of it so now it fits again. :)

Brilliant! It is clear you enjoy the entire process. I love the willingness to admit, "I don't know why I did this" kind of comment - just recognizing that spontaneous inspiration can happen if you are open to it. (I'm here because of you Flickr link ;) ).

@elsvanopstal

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Yeah I often tend to rely on spontaneous inspiration 😇, although there are times as well when I see the photo exactly like I would like it to be. The trouble then becomes the exact execution of the idea. 🙂

Nice to see how you get your portraits done.

@elsvanopstal

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I’m glad you liked it! 🙂

I did wonder how you managed your self portraits. Nice video 👏👏

@elsvanopstal

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Thank you! And now you know. :)