Kristin
first posed for me in March, 2005.
She lives 100 miles away, so she
counts as a traveling model. We
tried to get together again, but her
trips were often last minute, and I
needed a bit more notice, so a second
visit never happened. However,
Kristin plans on moving to California,
so we made a special effort to get
together once more before she moves.
Okay
-- here's the punch line for the whole
sitting: the digital camera died
about two-thirds into the
sitting. While we made some fine
images here, I felt that we were just
getting started. So, forgive me
if the commentary here is a bit short
-- breaking the digital camera got me
upset.
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We start on the back
stairs.
Okay -- I can also
admit that I was having some eye trouble. I had a vein occlusion
in my dormant eye: basically, a vein near my optic nerve got
kinked like a garden hose, causing the back of my eye to swell.
As a result, my vision looked like I was looking through glasses that
were smeared with grease. I went to a specialist, and he treated
me with a steroid injection, which addressed the swelling. My
vision is much improved, but there is some damage -- now it looks like
I'm looking through some wavy glass.
The upshot of all
this is that I'm more appreciative of auto-focus. This is an
all-digital sitting.
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I
like playing composition games
like this. I used to do
this more often, and I'm glad
I am getting back to this some
more.
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The back stairs still
gets the best natural light of the house.
The bad news -- my
eye problems were a definite distraction. The good news -- I
always get better than expected images when I work with Kristin.
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Still,
I expect that there be far
fewer than usual out takes
from this sitting. But
then again, I always would
choose quality over quantity
-- I'm happy if there is only
one good image from a
sitting. Fortunately,
there often are more.
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(I'll continue the
idea of putting a black border around those images I particularly
like).
Still, we start
slowly. Kristin moves gracefully while staying on that spot, and
she finds nice shapes for me to look at.
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Now,
don't ask me what was going on
here. I don't
know. Still, it's
real.
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Kristin has several
good "looks".
Actually, sometime
around this sitting, I realized that it is better to put the camera on
a tripod. Why? If you are holding the camera (especially a
digital camera, where you look at the LCD screen), then you are
looking at the camera & not the model when you make the
exposure. It's better to put the camera on the tripod, focus it,
compose the image, set the exposure, etc. Then, you can look at
the model & select the right moment without bothering with the
camera stuff.
So, tip #1:
use a tripod all the time.
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We
let Kristin move around
a bit more.
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last image -- a little bit of fun. |
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It's
a funny sitting -- it's taking us a
little while to gain traction, but
then again, we are loose & having
a bit of fun. Go figure.
This
sitting continues with Art
Light, Page One
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