To be honest, I wasn't liking the light during this whole sitting -- we were working at mid-day, and the window lighting wasn't all that great.  (Leona & I are negotiating another sitting, this time for a late afternoon).  We did some work here in the dining room, first on the dining room table, and later on the sideboard.  The dining room has three large windows facing north & the blank wall of the neighboring building that stands about six to eight feet way; there are a lot of room lights in the dining room, and we used lots of them, too.

  

We start work on the dining room table, using my slight wide angle lens (which is a lot more fun than I thought it would be).  I like the slight distortion is creates, and it makes my dining room look huge.

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These two pictures above show a pose that's a little on the provocative side.  That's okay with me -- Leona is a sexy woman.  But I have to admit that I don't remember these poses.  It's funny -- although it's not physically challenging, I find these photo sessions exhausting because so much is going on:  I'm always thinking about lighting, exposure, composition while trying to continually engage the model.  I also like the model to be herself & react naturally to the set-ups we create.

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Leona has a lovely back with a narrow & high waist.  I'm sorry I didn't make more exposures from this angle -- that's something I intend to correct next time.

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These last pictures on the dining room table have a different feel from the previous ones.  I like to think that we are starting to "click" here -- we are getting beyond the rhythms of the session and are beginning to connect.

 

 

See the lamp in the background of the previous pictures (on the left side)?  That's on the sideboard.  We had to take down the artwork on the wall, move the dining room table out of the way, and we made some lovely figure studies on top of the sideboard.

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I love the muscular definition throughout Leona's torso.  While Leona is definitely slim, she is by no means skinny.  These pictures hint at the architecture of the female anatomy and seem (to me, at least) to be the epitome of modern female health & beauty.  I think Leona's body is streamlined, like that of a dolphin.

 

I didn't expect to be that pleased with these pictures -- at the time, I thought the lighting was difficult, and I continued to have focusing challenges, but we started connecting, and we created some terrific torso figure studies. 

 

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