Meet Jessica.  She's a young college freshman visiting her family in a nearby town during the year-end holidays.  She put together a profile on One Model Place, which I saw, and we were lucky to be able to connect & collaborate.  Jessica is interested in learning photography, and she was very attentive to everything that we did -- I even invited her into my darkroom for a little printing. During this sitting, I fell in love with the initial lighting setup, and with minor variations, we used this lighting for practically the entire sitting.  That's unusual for me, especially when I am working with a model for the first time -- I usually use a few different lighting setups, just to see how the model looks under a variety of lighting.   When you are done looking at Jessica's pages, you may be interested in seeing Jessica's Digital Variations.

Funky Furniture

Beauty Light

Mirror Image

Scarf Dance

Lean On Me

Table Top

The Shower Time flew, and before we knew it, we had exposed 10 rolls of film by the end of the previous page.  But we were still having fun, I was still energized, so we took my digital camera into the shower for a few more images.  Bonus!

Good golly, did I have a good time photographing Jessica! You never know what's going to happen when you work with a model for the first time.  Jessica is a bit young for me (barely legal), and all things being equal, I would prefer to work with models who are more experienced, but Jessica is beautiful, confident, and secure.  She was totally natural & comfortable in front of the camera, and her curiosity about what I was thinking was encouraging for me.  And at the end of the sitting, she said the best thing I could hope to hear:  "I had fun; I'd love to do that again."  Let's hope that she returns to town often during breaks & vacations. When you are done looking at Jessica's pages, you may be interested in seeing Jessica's Digital Variations.