Me in backlight


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A somewhat spontanious last pic from when I photographed myself today, but it turned out to be the best one xD I was not that focused today hah. Anywho. Bought another [scheckered] shirt... love them, have a shirt-period atm! Don't forget to check out my clothes/style at my Lookbook. Will not post stuff like that on my blog, cause it's not a fashionblog :P
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Autumn Portrait

Done with the simple edit and thinning out of todays photoshoot, the big work starts tomorrow. But I stayed up way to late last night so will no go to bed early. A little selfportrait from last friday will have to do in the meantime ;D




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Sunbathing

Sigma 24mm f/2.8 + tripod and remote
Model: Moi

I took this right after I got up this morning. I just splashed some cold water in my face and tangled out my hair a little with my fingers. No makeup and such!


I just love to use ambient light and I've started to consider it alot while photographing, and to create patterns with light/shadows and so on. It's so much fun and challenging! I think pictures become so much more interesting, exciting and get a whole different depth to them. I shall do my best not to take to many pictures like that though, one must learn when to best use different techniques.

 

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Oh!

I woke on the wrong side of the bed today. Hate it. So I'm not in a good mood right now. But really I'm very happy. Booked a trip yesterday so in October, me and my mum + her housband and my lovely Lucas will go to Rome one week :D It's supposed to be a really beautiful time of the year there at that time. Oooh it shall be so much fun!

Then I'm, like I said, very happy and excited about the job I've been working on for two days. I'm sorry my 365-pics was rather boring [especially the one from yesterday] but it's just pictures I've taken sort of quickly while working - that's just life sometimes!


The sun is shining so after finishing my coffé, and gettin' in a better mood I might go out and bring the camera :)

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RaniaMaria

Sigma 24mm f/2.8 + tripod, remote & reflector

 

I'm not sure anyone has thought of it, but I have a new tag on my pictures these days,RaniaMaria Photography. Maria is my middlename and I think RaniaMaria sounds and flows better than Rania Rönntoft, plus we have the fact that "Ö" is not the best letter outside of sweden/The Scandinavian Countries. Well why should I care about that? Because I will soon launch my own website so that I can start printing business cards and promote myself, and I want a better adress to refer to, than the blog or flickr.

 

raniamaria.com is taken, so it'll probably be raniamariaphoto.com,unless I take raniamaria.eu? what do you think? It's good if an adress is short, so people remember it, but I dunno what looks and sounds best. I want com or eu since I want to reach ot to more people than just swedes.

 

I have until tomorrow to decide, my salary will arrive and then I will buy a domain name and such. Exciting~~!!

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Amber Eyes

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Today a ring I had ordered arriwed, it is a reindeer :D Love it! The horns get stuck in stuff easily though ^^, I will probably post a better picture later but you can see it on the picture above, situated on my index finger.

 

I also stole one of my mums sweaters today, and realized I now have a clean, white wall in my room since I re-decorated so I decided to take some new selfportraits. Then I was off for another photoshoot with Sofia and her big belly - it's only a little more than a month left until she's due to give birth!

 

So now I'm editing pictures like a maniac, although I think I will go to sleep soon cause I'm tired. But more pictures of me and Sofia will arrive within time so stay tuned!

 

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Love and Affection



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Models: Me, Pluto och Maja

You've seen pictures of these two quite a lot of times now.

I just love these little fellows. I cuddle with them and play with them all the time, or just carry them around [for as long as they allow me ;D]. This morning, at light 04.30 after Lucas had sat in his car and drove away for a fre days of work in Norway, the bed felt so cold and empty.. So I carried these cuties in and they slept with me for a bit during the morning :3

 

I had a dream a few nights ago, we were gonna leave one of them with it's new owner and I just cried and cried and cried in the dream and refused to let go of it. That's how it will be for real as well, when we leave them away... I will cry my guts out. Because I love them so much!

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Over the hills and far away

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More Selfies

 

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Countryside Girl

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I felt it was time for a new selfportrait. I'm not fully content, it could've gone better and the result been more to what I had in mind - but then I'm very self-critical. I do like this picture alot :)

 

When I shot this series [yes, more pictures will come], I got a shock from the electrical fence, burned myself on nettles, got like a thousand mosquito-bites and managed to break the screen-protection on my camera and I packed my stuff together, and brought it up again cause I though I would hav e no more sunlight but then it showed up again - so this resulted in some runnin' back and forth. But it was worth it :3

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Earthbound

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森ガール

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I wanted to get out in the nature and take earthy pictures... I love the forest, nature, freedom, to imagine, daydream, drift away, live, read.. enjoy life.

I wish we took more care of our dear nature though, it's the only thing we'll leave behind for our successors. Things will break and memories will fade...

 

 


 

Did not turn out the way I planned though, I'm tired of selfportraits. There's to much work with my fully manual lens, to get focus and depth of the picture right, and if I move just a little it all turns bad. My 50mm refuses to focus/focus right and the remote is not working properly, the signal between it and the camera is vague - even though I recently changed the battery of the remote..

 

I want full control of the situation, have a model and see her and the surroundings and light as I photograph. Move her, move around, change. I need to photograph other, need to start dare asking if I can photograph them and so forth. Dare to try my ideas. Sick of selfportraits, of seing myself, of it not turning out good and the way I wanted to.

 

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Watch me Burn

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Inspirational source

 

Today is not a good day. And I want to get better at editing.

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Ponderer

[not fully content with this edit but have no energy to work with it anymore]

 

I think, ponder, brood, fantasize and dream alot - especially during the evenings/nights and if I am alone or bored. Sometimes I really can't let a thought go unless I get to speak my mind about it, or express myself/the thought in a creative [preferrably through photography, but I also draw or write] way.

 

Tonight and today, my mind's really been soaring somewhere else. I've been thinking alot about my bf, and how I miss him. It gets harder and harder everytime he leaves to work in Norway. I miss him alot and long for him to come home, only to know that he'll only stay a few days, then leave again... Makes everything so much harder. Have 2 more days to make time fly until he comes home, dunno what I'll do. Need to make the time move faster - miss him alot!

 

 

I love you and I can't exist [or sleep] without you, you're my everything<3

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Insomnia


Sigma 24mm f/2.8

Been up late and having trouble sleeping this week. Not much to do during the night so I've played with candles/light...
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Dark hair fall, catch in the wind~~

Nikkor AF 50mm f/1.8 + tripod and remote

 

I like my hair :D It's starting to grow long and it's very healthy now since I no longer color it, use a straightener or hairspray and stuff like that. I also use a very good shampo and conditioner these days :3 I just want it to grow even longer and for the black color to grow away, so that all my hair is brown [as you can see, it's a lot darker at the ends]

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Pocahontas?

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A tribute to a festival called Hulstfred that smashed yesterday. The people I was going with planned to have a cowboy/indian-theme on our camp and this was my outfit. Now we're going to another festival so the indian-girl within will go there and make it unsafe instead ;)

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No place but home - but back to stress!

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I am home again, but struggling with all my pics I had in the camera - they are a few and it takes time. I do not like that I am so behind with posting/uploading/showing my 365-pics. But there are so many things going on around me as well. My grandma is here now so we are doing a lot of things with her for example, and also I'm taking new pictures every day. I feel like I will never catch up to myself.

 

So it will be non-picture-posts here for a while longer, while I keep on struggling haha!

 

I also think I've missed one day of my 365... :(


Above is by the way a picture I took at the same time as this.

 

I have to get ready now though - we're gonna go shopping! [see, always happening things...]

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You are my key to the light

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Me myself and I

Sigma 24mm f/2.8 + tripod and remote

 

Another picture from the series I took on myself a few days back. Besides the two I've already shown, this is the next one I really like. I love my pose and the fact that my tattoo is shown haha

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