Brooke, Lying Down

Okay -- at this point, perhaps I ran out of steam, creatively. I had in mind the final setup (the next page), but it was too early to do that, so I had time for one more setup before that final one. I think that this is where having a surprise visit had an impact -- if I had had more planning time, I would have had a concept ready.

Instead, we set up some horizontal posing. To be honest, we started with some images with Brooke on her back, but they were too much like the images we made during her first visit. So, we moved on.

To be honest, we made a few images like the one above, but they just felt too much like stuff we had already done either during her first visit or earlier on the couch.
Then, we tried a few exposures like this one to the left. They were mildly interesting, but they didn't knock me out. But we were trying. Perhaps we'll find something interesting.

I ask Brooke to lie on the wooden floor, and I attempt to photograph her from nearly above her.

Now we're getting somewhere. By photographing Brooke from above, she appears weightless. I like the texture of the wood floor. The light is nice. I'll leave it as an exercise for you to figure out the lighting here -- but I'll give you a little help: I used three lighting sources.

Hey, not every image will be perfect. As an artist, you've got to take some chances & try new things. I didn't like these lying down pictures (through no fault of Brooke's). The exposures were off just a tad, and the images weren't as exciting as I wanted them to be. There are some starts of ideas here, and perhaps I'll develop them further. But these don't quite work for me. I couldn't tell you exactly why, but that's part of the process -- I've got to study them a bit more.

This sitting conclude on the next page:
Brooke Gets Wet