This is the adorable beach bum the first time I shot her -- she came onto the lawn with her big white running shoes on and I thought absentmindedly (as I often do when I see an attractive woman stride by) "man would it be great is she takes those shoes off and puts her feet up," and sure enough, that's exactly what she did! But she did so in my least favorite spot, on the east end of the lawn, facing west. The problem with that is, there's nothing behind the woman but the library, which is not that tall, and then the sky, meaning she's quite likely to be backlit. I went over and saw that she is beautiful and has ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS soles, as we now know from the first clip I released (from a much later day, when she was back and fortunately facing north). I sat in front of her and opened my viewfinder and I saw a dark shape. Very disappointing, but from the glimpses I got of her perfect, amazing soles, I couldn't not shoot, so I did. I don't know if she saw the camera come out when I first set up or when the camera first slid onto my lap, but she is sitting there, seemingly oblivious, the dark lenses of her shades tilted up adorably, when suddenly BAM she just looks straight at the camera knowingly, fully aware. She did it once, then did it with increasing frquency as I continued to shoot. But she sat there all the same, texting or whatever she was doing (she moves her lips when she reads -- SO CUTE), those biggish (size 9 or so), immaculate and stunningly beautiful soles wriggling around gently.
So for the longest time I assumed this was horribly backlit and didn't even bother to extract it from my camcorder. I didn't see this until fairly recently, when I looked at it on my camcorder and it looked MUCH BETTER than I had realized, so I DLed it on my PC and OH MY GOD it's addictive! I think what must have happened was, the brightness setting on my camcorder's viewfinder was set down low, so I thought the video I was capturing was dark, when it was just how the viewfinder was shoing it. This is so good I literally could not bring myself to edit one second out, and it's the whole thing from when I hit REC to when she put her feet down and left. She really did seem very tomboyish the second time I shot her (the first clip released) but in this one she's much softer and more feminine. LITERAL PERFECTION!
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