Elfa's fears 2 of 3.

I promised to shoot at least one photo of Elfa wearing her safety slippers, and here is the first one, but I shot a lot more, so you will see the yellow sandals again.

The fear she experienced on the roof of the taller and more modern building surprised me.
All of a sudden we hear a noise, she gasps and points towards the breach in the tiles, from where the light was coming in, so I looked and saw a harmless lizard.
I had to reassure her it was not a serpent, not dangerous, and that cats are usually take lizards as a gift to their owners, but apparently it was a new sight for her.

Sometimes I wonder if she is so perfect because she is an android of some sort, with no experience of human life but, if she is, I would reprogram her modeling software, to introduce some things I am missing for my workflow.
For example, she is part of the new generations of models that have been programmed to interact with the last firmware updates of Sony's Alpha cameras, with state of the art autofocus.
I kept telling her to stay perfectly still because I needed time to focus and I want to shoot 3 frames, but as soon as she heard the shutter release for the first time, she started moving, so most of the other frames are either blurred by the low shutter speeds or out of focus, or both.
Not only, but in the whole sequence, few photos have any sense, because of eyes half closed or arms hiding her face or, worst still, her breast!
In today's picture, for example, she was not reacting to the lizard or meditating about following the suggestion of the graffiti on the wall, she was just caught in the middle of one of her endless and meaningless sequences...
I wonder if this technique works on modern cameras, and they can get more keepers, but the GFX surely is not a machine gun like those cameras.

With her, my Fujifilm GFX 50S II + "Martin" (the Zeiss T* 1,4/85mm Planar ZF named after the Patron that sponsored part of the purchase), was probably the worst approach I could have ever adopted.
I wouldn't even bother working with her if she was not so inexplicably beautiful.
But she is, and in some rare occasion everything clicks into place, for example in the picture I will be posting later today on my regular social media feed.
Do not miss it, because it is a masterpiece!
If they told me this would have been the only photo coming out from our entire 3 hours shooting, I would have been glad to go for it anyway.
This is how much I love this photo, shot in the same spot of yesterday teaser with the mosquitos, but in a magic and timeless moment where I nailed the focus, and she struck a delightful pose, resulting in a perfect figure study with all muscles and bones gracefully harmonized, like a painting from Leonardo da Vinci.
The location, the light filtering inside the building, the distance of the subject from the background, the camera and lens combination, everything was perfect, and concurred to produce something even better than the kind of photos I've always been dreaming about shooting.
I'm definitely on the right track to further improve my photography, and I don't care if I have problems uploading these huge files on some social networks, in those cases I will just have to crop part of the image, like a "quality censorship".

Tomorrow another photo of Elfa, with her third fear.

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