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created September 7, 2004
Sitting occurred on August 13, 2004
Who wouldn't want to photograph Victoria A.? As I noted during her first sitting with me, Victoria is the perfect model. She is stunning, enthusiastic, energetic, creative, and the stuff of dreams. When she told me that she was coming through town on a car tour of the West Coast, I jumped at the chance to work with her again. I've been prolific this year -- by July, I had completed more sittings this year than I completed in all of the previous year. Normally, I would prefer to "process" a sitting completely before undertaking the next sitting. By "process", I mean not only developing the film, making the prints, and putting together the web pages, I also mean internalizing the lessons learned from the sitting. But with so many sittings happening so often, I've not been able to complete a sitting before the next sitting is scheduled. In this case, I had "completed the processing" of Jennifer's first sitting before this one, and I incorporated my thoughts from that sitting in this one. (Conversely, I hadn't "completed" Jennifer's sitting when I worked with Brooke during her second sitting, and I hadn't "completed" Brooke's second sitting before this visit of Victoria's). (If I was a better writer, I probably could have expressed that more clearly). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Do
you prefer the original color digital
image or the "colorized" sepia
toned version?
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Like many other "fine art" photographers, my sittings can tend to be very serious, and for this setup, I fought that trend. I like the results. I let go of a lot of control, the model had a good time, and we produced some images that are interesting & wild, and I just love the natural smile on Victoria's face. Admittedly, I could wish for better technical results with maybe some better lighting, but I do believe I'm onto something here. Look for more variations & improvements for this setup in future sittings. This sitting continues with Curves & Angles.
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