here are some images that i am not sure which ones i like or that really work so i am asking you for help in pointing me in a direction
1.
female semi nude profile
2.
3/4 female nude
3.
covered up
all though i do like the one looking at us i do have another preference but i’ll keep that to myself and hopefully see which one you like.
another single strobe test, trying to make my life simple
dark shadows
while still looking for detail
hands
and then do they tell a story?
hands again
i told you it was late, think it’s time to go to bed now
jene
female nude from a session a while ago.
female nude
interesting landscape of hills and valleys one could almost imaging skiing across this terrain if covered in snow. but then again the human body is always interesting coming or going.
more hills and valley's
in both of these images i had to retouch her body. the top image she had shaving bumps in the folds of her raised leg and some other stuff going on but this was the simpler of the two images. the bottom i had to remove panty lines from her rear and legs and touch up stretch marks on her breast, seems even young women get them. all bodies have some imperfections bumps, pimples or discolored areas. no big deal but that’s the price i pay for being a small operation. so much goes into just taking a picture and showing them.
advice to young female models: take care of yourself, cream your skin, it’s your best asset.
oh well
jene
just fooling around the other day with a new aspiring female model that another photographer had booked for this shoot inviting me along to share expenses . dave and i have worked together in the past on projects but i had never worked in his studio before. i have a way of taking over a shoot if it’s just left to my devices and dave has no problem letting me do whatever it is that i do.
having fun
i try and shoot using one light while dave uses 3 or 4 lights, hey we are all different and there is no one right way of working. but i think for these shots i need to have a backlight for separation. but because of the low ceiling height and the size of dave’s strobes hanging one would not work, so i a though this morning about making a 45 degree reflector for my white lightnings. it should be simple enough, ding! where have i heard that noise before? was i when i bought the xr7 which still isn’t on the road yet?
pattern
this is where i get bored just popping off photos , how many naked women remain interesting to just look at. i am sure it’s different for everybody but i have a woman at home that i am particular about. so here i used a cloth with large weave to project this pattern.
standing naked
so as i kept tripping over her boots i asked her to put them on, at least i’d know where they were. then adding a chair always looking for interesting patterns.
boots 1
boots 2
then i got bored again as dave continued to shoot and dug around for a new location in the studio picked this one as a homage to helmut newton at least i like to think so.
nude leaning
while this image is far from perfect, way too much spill on the background, i had nothing to control the spill with, oh well lets shoot and see what happens. time is money. i guess when i find another interesting model i’ll revisit this location.
so i really don’t have much time to update my web site nor do i want to because i am not really fond of it. i post my new stuff here.
i am trying to select a series of photos to enter in the NYPF that closes 5/1/10 and i am finding it really hard maybe because of the amount of images 5 to 15 and what might at least win. win what ever? my work is somewhere between photography and……….. well i really don’t know. yet today i got a check from a gallery for one of my images selling. some people buy my work and i am always surprised.
the real fun about entering these contest is going through my hard drives looking for images and finding some like the ones below.
but i always knew about this since i have prints of this hanging on my wall, these were done 2008 so that was some time ago but the other images i had forgotten about. this image below is from a completely different session using the same red cloth but in a totally different way.
red cloth wrap
one is a dancer the other is not, but the cloth is still red silk. the reason i think these images work besides them being lovely young women in shadows is for the red silk. the one below i remember working on the cloth bring out the redness but i had forgotten about it.
letting go
it reminds me of a crane or stork.
a lovely image the way the light reveals the female body yet keeps the mystery. this is one of the reason i left the manhattan figure study & lighting workshop. i need to work on my own discovering these moments. i also don’t like to share my work even though i do.
it’s like my personal relationship with mary, a journey, discovering new things along the way. that’s life
just my opinion
when i first heard the news report of the Iranian cleric blaming scantily clad woman boobs of causing earthquakes i chuckled thinking that yes some of them have had a profound effect on me, sometimes my hands shook as i touched them or thought about touching them, but never the ground underneath me.
i remember my first earthquake happening when i, naked except for being covered with soap in the shower, had to think fast as the ground beneath my bathtub began to shake and remembering earthquake preparedness lessons as i grabbed a towel and stood in the bathroom doorway. after the first shock wave we, the family and i, ran out of the house into the drive way along with all our other neighbors. i still felt kind of silly in my towel.
earthquakes are pretty scary things but i’ve never felt that way looking eye to eye with a boob. but Ms. Jen McCreight, an American twentysomething student thought she’d do something to support science and make t shirts for Boobquake day.
yes virgina there is a boobquake facebook page showing ms mc creight in her earthquake outfit.
this though is not ms. mc creight but a lovely woman in the prime of her life. humans are beautiful i think it’s a crime to cover beauty with ignorance.
beauty
just my opinion
well after having a bad family portrait day the other weekend i tried to arrange a session with another flaky no-show model, who didn’t show, due to illness and doctors advice, she didn’t know she was sick with a fever. where do they come from?
i had set up some strobes in my studio in anticipation for her session but shadow my only other model doesn’t like to have her picture taken. but my honey came into the city to go to Photo Salon last night and volunteered to sit for me. i shot two cards and showed her how to use the Sekonic 508 light meter. i think we got some nice shots from the session.
female silhouette
this one below is a favorite from the first of the session. i don’t think anyone of us, i know i don’t have, the model feel, if there is such a thing. it’s a pretty special talent to go through actions that emote a special feeling, unless you’re part of and aware of the moment it’s pretty hard to appreciate but the picture says everything.
female nude
this one just captures the one i love, unadorned except for the heart i gave her for christmas and red lipstick.
portrait with heart
she has changed my life. honey said you get what you pay for even without a powerball payout i am rich.
NEW YORK, NY.- The human form, disrobed and displayed in all its glory, is arguably the most enduring motif in the history of Western art. Museums dedicated to art both ancient and modern are filled with nudes rendered every which way: painted, chiseled, molded, sketched and photographed.
They’re just usually not living and breathing. But New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will host daily performances of five seminal works by Marina Abramović, three of which feature performers in the altogether. In Imponderabilia (1977), two players stand opposite each other, au naturel, in a narrow doorway. Visitors must brush past them to enter the exhibition—an early, if awkward, example of interactive art. On exhibition 14 March through 31 May, 2010.
and if you time your visit right you can also see a rareity from Germany in “World on a Wire”, 1973. Germany. Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Pictured: Barbara Valentin. Courtesy: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.
NEW YORK, NY.- ‘World on a Wire’ (1973), written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (German, 1945–1982) and based on the novel Simulacron-3 by American author Daniel F. Galouve, will have a weeklong run at MoMA, from April 14 through April 19, 2010. Originally made for German television in 1973, Fassbinder’s revolutionary adaptation has only been shown in America once before, in 1997, as part of a comprehensive Fassbinder retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art.
while i’ve never understood all of his films i’ve always found him interesting and knowing that Michael Ballhaus did some of the cinematography is an education in it’s self.
I first fell in love with Fassbinder for his “Berlin Alexanderplatz” done in 14 episodes, 1980 and shown on PBS when PBS filled it’s mandate of bringing quality television to the airways. now PBS is just a shadow of it’s former self especially the new york stations. i think the nyc stations should be taken off the air.
i had three art contest deadlines today.
one in france, The Prix de la Photographie Paris 2010 which i submitted a series called Man. last year i got an honorable mention in the 2009 contest and we are trying to go to europe again this summer. hoping to see the Caravaggio exhibit in Rome Italy at the Scuderie del Qurionale
man standing in a pool of light
shame
The Fall
repent
then another series submitted to the Xto Image Awards Calling all photographers and illustrators inspired by the human form to submit their work to the Xto Image Awards. The final deadline is March 1, 2010.
Awards: $2000- Top Overall and $1000-Runner-Up; An exhibit in Los Angeles for the top two winners of each category.
The exhibit will be April 1-7, 2010 at the Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The winners celebration will be held April 3, 2010, 7pm-10pm in conjunction with MOPLA.
i submitted a female series for this one.
Awaking
eyes wide open
now for the third contest i submitted the females from above to The Silicon Gallery Fine Art Prints Ltd.
boy that was some work day which i don’t usually put myself through because i try to submit long before the deadlines, but somehow things got away from me this year. hope this isn’t a harbinger of the year to come.
i’d be happy with any of these associations because looking at past winners i’d be in some pretty good company. tomorrow i have to pack up my Ascending print and send it off to C4fap.
woohoo the day is done .
jene
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