Brooke & I made some nice horizontal images during her solo part of the Model Marathon, and while they were very nice, I didn't like how dark it was under the small of her back.  I strove to correct that this time.  Above is the first proof, made with the digital camera.  I figured that in this image, the background was a bit too bright, so I corrected it (see below).  This is a good example of using some kind of tool to preview your images.

Doesn't Jennifer's figure look terrific?

And below is the film/paper version of this image.

And now that we've got the basic set-up ready, we try some variations.  I challenge Jennifer to show me some variations, using her expressive hands.

A couple of thoughts:  I like the dangling arm, coupled with the other hand on the belly.  The other thing is that this sitting was in the middle of the afternoon on a sunny day.  We were using strobes, and I had drawn the shades in the living room, but there was a lot of light coming into the room from the adjacent dining room.  The strobes are powerful enough to overpower the window light from the dining room.  The point is that the light from the strobes is quite different from the ambient light, and usage of the digital camera throughout this sitting was essential, because my eye alone couldn't "see" what the cameras would see.  That's why Jennifer & I made so many digital exposures.  Even now, I would prefer to stick to film/paper images, but making all these digital exposures was necessary.

We try some exposures with Jennifer on her side. 

These images, above & below, are favorites from this sitting. 

That thingy on Jennifer's chest is a deck light -- a glass prism that would be placed in the deck of a boat to allow light in below decks (the pointy end is supposed to go down).  It just has a way of redirecting all the light that hits it.  I've got to admit that we spent too much time on setting up this setup.  We made some images with the regular backdrop, then I changed that backdrop for a black velvet backdrop, then we tried to adjust the position of the prism and the lights, and so forth.  In the end, it wasn't worth all the effort -- it was interesting, but the concept just wasn't up to snuff.  But with the black backdrop, we did some final exposures.   

Thus concludes a wonderfully delightful sitting with a beautiful, fun, talented, audacious, and creative model.  We tried a lot of things, many of which worked (and some that didn't).  We created some nice images.

Good luck on your trip, Jennifer!