朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
I met up with Winfred again, this time he brought the ‘boss’ of his photo society and a few chicks from his school to act as models. We headed roughly to the same place as last time, although this time much later in the day. We decided we’d try get some sunset shots. The weather was less than perfect in terms of visibility and it was cold as well. This made our relentless march up into the hills less than enjoyable for our dainty model friends, but… in the end, certainly got some good photos out of it…

高金 Gao Jin at Sunset 日落
This is Gao Jin (高金.) The first of our models. She majors in Chinese and speaks very little English, but a very polite girl, and photogenic. 🙂 (This is how you have to say a girl is “pretty” when you have a girlfriend 😉 )

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
and this is the infectious smile of Zhu Hui (朱惠.) An art major who again, speaks no English and while is stereotypically shy — she’s very charismatic.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
Winfred was representin’ with his usual combo of D90 and 50mm 1.8

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
and our new partner in crime, Li De (李地.)

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
This cloud/hill combo reminded me of the Windows XP default desktop wallpaper.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
Zhu Hui thought it was A-OK too.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
As the sun got lower, the sky got more and more interesting.

高金 Gao Jin at Sunset 日落
There were no flowers to pretend to look at, so we had to settle for these strange plant things.

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Took this before our ascent. If you look in the background, you can actually see a herd of sheep being…herded. The greatness of shooting in Weinan.

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Trying to stay warm.

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
Zhu Hui has a real “deer in headlights” gaze.

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
I quite like this obscure shot.

高金 Gao Jin at Sunset 日落
As the sun got lower, I decided to break the number one rule of photography, and start shooting into it.

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
Interesting eyes!

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
I normally don’t like black and white, but found it worked well with the soft, haze-filtered, low sun.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
I continue to love my new 24-105 F/4L lens!

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
Cute smile!

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
Colour is still my numero uno though. Especially with some warm lens flare thrown in.

朱惠 Zhu Hui at Sunset 日落
I love playing around trying to make my shots look like film.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
I like the colour treatment on this one too.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
Shooting from just 50meters away and the hazey smog really softens the image up.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
I quite like the hazy, washed-out look.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
The sun getting low, low, low, loooowwwww. Peep my Adidias.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
One of my favourite shots; I like the pink, blue, yellow combo.

Some behind the scenes stuff:

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Winfred getting busy.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
Winfred’s 25 year old Chinese film camera. I’ll have to find out more info on this, but it just looks cool!

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
The boys and their toys.

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All about the peace.

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落 (Blog Size)
Not forgetting yours truly. 😉

While heading down the hill, I snapped some of these:

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
One…

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落

Two…

Sunset photoshoot in Weinan 渭南日落
Three. China is a purdy place.

You can see 170+ photos from the day, here.

Or, just the 36 best here.

I took the opportunity of this blog post to experiment with super-large portrait-orientation photos. Usually most of my photography is landscape, but this time most of my goodies were portrait, so to really show ’em off, I have to go big. I’d appreciate your thoughts on how it worked out. Too big? Did they look purdy? Lemme know in the comments, or shoot me an email.

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4 Comments to “Winter Sunset in Weinan”  

  1. 1 Kay

    Maybe just a touch too big, I had to scroll to see the full picture on most of them on my 21″ screen…but those eyes! Beautiful!

  2. 2 Joe

    Thanks Kay! The huge portrait images is something I’m “umm”ing and “aww”ing over a lot. I like how it makes you examine the photo in detail, like standing next to a piece of art in a gallery, and having the scan the painting with your eyes (not that I’ve ever actually done that – I’m not one for traditional art) but at the same time, you can’t really stand back and take the whole image in. Hmmm. Maybe I think about these things too much!

  3. 3 dad

    Deer caught in the headlights. You would know!! Dad

  4. 4 Jade

    i saw the photoes ,there are beautiful photoes that you and your friend took them . they are nature and it shows you are a good photographer. maybe you write an album of weinan .

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