Showing posts with label July. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July. Show all posts
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Catching up part 4: Nudes in the moonlight
Ok, we're just about caught up. My last shoot was last Monday night with Lauralyn again. I have done moonlight shoots just about every summer, and I wanted to get one in again this year. I usually try to hit the full moon, but with my daughter getting married today, I had to get out early in the week which was a couple of days before the full moon. Even though the moon wasn't quite full, we couldn't have picked a better night to go out and shoot. The sky was clear, the weather was warm, and my friend Jeanne gave us permission to come down and shoot at her farm. Moonlight shooting is always long exposure, usually 10-25 seconds, and holding a pose that long presents issues with blurring, but Lauralyn did a great job again. After shooting at the farm, we went back to continue my "Not Long For This World" cemetery series, and Lauralyn did some more self-shot photos for her blog The Big Ugly. We had a spectacular time, and created some very nice images, which I'm proud to share with you here.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Catching up, part 3: Back on Goose Creek, nudes with Lauralyn
As I mentioned in my first "catching up" post, I haven't had the opportunity to do much shooting in the area that I am most passionate about, fine art nudes. I met a fellow photographic artist, Lauralyn Wilkins, a few weeks ago at a mutual friend's house. She has a blog The Big Ugly that features self-portrait photographs that she does with the 10 second timer on her camera. She's also local to the area, and we arranged to collaborate on some photographs, which we had the opportunity to do on the afternoon of July 22, 2012.
We got out to my favorite location on Goose Creek about 4:30 and got right to work. I started out behind the camera, and put Lauralyn in model mode. Her shooting process is rather dynamic: she sets up her shot using a small table and a gorilla grip tripod for her camera, then she sets the timer and makes a mad dash to get into her set up shot and posed in the 10 seconds before the camera takes the image. My process is much more static, and requires holding poses for an extended period of time, or laying semi-submerged in water for several minutes while I shoot from various angles. She did a fantastic job in everything I asked her to do. Later in the afternoon, she commented on how challenging she found it to hold the long poses and how different it was having someone else in control behind the camera. This was only the second time she had modeled for another photographer, but as I said, I think she did very well. After we finished working what I wanted to do, she got into her self-photography mode and set up a couple of shots. I have done some self portrait work, and I understand how challenging it is getting your shot set up and then getting the posing done so that it looks good. I have to say that she does a much better job at it than I do.
So, here are some images from my set, and then a few images that I shot of Lauralyn while she was doing her set. Hope you enjoy!
We got out to my favorite location on Goose Creek about 4:30 and got right to work. I started out behind the camera, and put Lauralyn in model mode. Her shooting process is rather dynamic: she sets up her shot using a small table and a gorilla grip tripod for her camera, then she sets the timer and makes a mad dash to get into her set up shot and posed in the 10 seconds before the camera takes the image. My process is much more static, and requires holding poses for an extended period of time, or laying semi-submerged in water for several minutes while I shoot from various angles. She did a fantastic job in everything I asked her to do. Later in the afternoon, she commented on how challenging she found it to hold the long poses and how different it was having someone else in control behind the camera. This was only the second time she had modeled for another photographer, but as I said, I think she did very well. After we finished working what I wanted to do, she got into her self-photography mode and set up a couple of shots. I have done some self portrait work, and I understand how challenging it is getting your shot set up and then getting the posing done so that it looks good. I have to say that she does a much better job at it than I do.
So, here are some images from my set, and then a few images that I shot of Lauralyn while she was doing her set. Hope you enjoy!
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Catching up, part 2: Vintage Clothing
For part 2, I'm going to stick with more fashion imagery. This time shot on July 21, 2012 as part of the Summer Fun Farm Fest event which was hosted again by Jeanne Blackwell at MadCap farm. She also provided the vintage clothing. The original plan for this shoot was supposed to be mostly outdoors, using various locations at the farm for backdrops. Of course, you know what they say about "the best laid plans of mice and men," and true to form we woke up on Saturday morning to a fairly steady rain. After a quick discussion with Jeanne (who woke me up about 2 hours before my alarm was set) we decided to go ahead with the event and the shoot. This meant that I had to bring a couple of lighting setups so that we could use the interior of the barn as our backdrop. I'm pretty happy with the results, and these images have already generated a lot of buzz through Facebook. Special thanks this time go to Jeanne, for providing the location, clothing, and arranging the models; Charla Malone and her crew from Salon Emage in Warrenton, Va for the hair and makeup artists, to all of the folks who showed up to model for us: Alex, Cristina, Erin, Manuel, Miguel, Tara, Amanda, Sharon, Christina, and Whitney; and especially to my friend Carol, who handled the administrative stuff behind the scenes so that I could focus on creating good photographs.
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