What Gabriela Camerotti chooses not to post on Flickr is more interesting than what she does. She treats her photostream like a literal pond or stream across which pics skip like stones. Today’s selection is good example. She presents more photos from the model shoot on her Tumblr. That one, and others, deserves your attention. Her work is best appreciated seeing each image in context of the others.
There is a youthful vivaciousness to her fashion photographs—dreamy, sensual, and surreal are all appropriate adjectives. Colors typically are soft, and she shies from heavy contrast and strong saturation except when deliberately producing specific mood, such as retro-look.
The 25 year-old photographer snapped her first pics at age eight and never stopped. She got the photo bug early and started working with models even as a teenager. She is a seasoned shooter, working assignments and editing, which includes Vogue Brazil.
“Photography is my life”, she says, “I can’t explain what I like about images so much, I believe people have to get involved with some kind of creative production to be fulfilled in life and photography is my choice. I’m lucky it’s my hobby and profession at the same time”.
I struggled choosing from her photostream. Today’s selection makes the Day for composition, Tumblr album, and camera information available in the metadata, which is missing from many pics. Several images I preferred more couldn’t make the cut. For example: Retro 70’s shot, which shows off Gabriela’s great use of props (discarded because All Rights Reserved, being shot for a client); young woman and cat (resolution falls below the minimum pixel size for this series). Yes, I strongly considered the dinosaur—and may regret not choosing since the full shoot is so strong. All her Flickr pics, including the final choice, are worthy.
Gabriela is from São Paulo, Brazil, and she joined Flickr in September 2005; at age 15. She shot today’s portrait on June 27, 2013, using Nikon D3100. Vitals: f/1.8, ISO 400, 1/200 sec, 35mm.
Photo Credit: Gabriela Camerotti
Editor’s Note: The image is from Gabriela’s Tumblr, for the greater resolution; it is identical to the one on Flickr.