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Page created June 19, 2011
Sitting date:  September 21, 2010

  

It's fair to say that my photography has been pretty much home-bound for the past several years.  
  • I like the privacy.  
  • My house has a good variety of settings.
  • I have a good range of lighting options.
  • I don't have to pack up & carry stuff.
  • It's comfortable for me.
  • It's comfortable for the model.

Some photographer friends wonder how I can use the same location over & over, but as long as I'm seeing variety, I'm satisfied.

And I get to observe the subtle changes in light throughout the day & throughout the year.  For most of the time, there is lovely soft light on this location (where the big comfy chair resides), but for a few months each year, for a few hours each day there is some harsh sunlight on the big comfy chair.  Models gravitate to that chair, especially when I'm setting up some studio lighting on the other side of the room.  I finish setting up the light, turn around, and see Natalia basking in the bright sunlight.  We pause for some big comfy chair images.

 

  

As photographers gain experience, many of them become control freaks -- that's especially true for photographers who work with studio lighting.  We work hard to craft the perfect image with the perfect lighting of the perfect pose.  I feel that I can get myself wrapped up in this.

But I like to fight it.  I just think of myself as a gravitational center of the artistic process -- I pull together all the elements of model, furniture, setting, light, etc.  I sometimes just let things happen around me & around the model, and in those circumstances, I make more casual images.  I just bring everything together & let things happen naturally.

There was a time when that bend in the shade or the draw string for the shade would bother me.  Not anymore.  Let it happen.

 

 

  

 

We don't make many exposures here on the big comfy chair.  I had set up the lighting for the next set of images (on the next page), and when I turned around, Natalia looked so lovely & comfortable in the sunlight that I just had to make a few exposures.  I like these images because they are not typical of the stuff I usually make.  In any case, we move on.

Distorted Natalia

 

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Natalia, Fifth Visit Out Takes

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