Page created August 30, 2005
Sitting date:  August 5, 2005

 

As I've mentioned, my favorite model, Jessica, is spending her summer vacation visiting her folks nearby.  Jessica is an excellent young photographer, but she's also a starving college student & can't afford to hire experienced models too often.  I like to encourage Jessica, because I think she is a marvelous raw talent.  So, I offer to share models with her this summer, with the idea that Jessica may pose with the model or that Jessica will pose for me.  Yulia agrees to be our first shared model.

Jessica has seen the images I made with Lucian Schmit of Kira on location for Kira's Fourth Sitting.  We decide to take Yulia to that same location. 

 

 

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This location is a very old, semi-distressed house in Northwest Portland.  In fact, we work on the second floor; the first floor is a funky store selling strange & interesting women's clothes & accessories.  To use the space, one negotiates with Pandora, the store proprietress.

Once we arrive, Jessica & Yulia spend a little time looking through the clothing & ask Pandora for permission to use some for the sitting.  They choose two pieces of clothing, and we start with this blue dress.  

 

Jessica & Yulia happily work with the blue dress, and I just don't get it.  Maybe it's a guy thing, but here we have a beautiful, sexy, shapely, & talented woman willing to pose nude for us -- why the heck are we covering up that magnificent body?  I endeavor to wait patiently for us to move on.

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Eventually, Yulia changes into the second piece of clothing, a translucent white long skirt, which she models topless.  We work closer to the window at the top of the stairs with the afternoon sunlight streaming in.

This is Lucian Schmit's favorite image from the previews. 

 

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We move into the corner room with the long skirt.  

I like these images because of how the light works:  Yulia's right side is lit & is positioned in front of a wall in shadow, while Yulia's left side is shadowed & is positioned in front of a lit wall.

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Beginner models rarely know what to do.  They tend to just stand there & wait for direction, and it's up to the photographer to talk a model through a specific pose.  When that happens, I am usually disappointed -- I might as well photograph a mannequin.  More experienced models, like Yulia, find ways to move within the environment chosen by the photographer.  Yulia offers us a variety of shapes & poses.  Such is Yulia's talent that she understand any particular setting & moves well within it.  She is full of ideas.  She has very expressive hands.

I think I'm in the optimal spot, because of how the light/shadow parts of Yulia's figure is in front of the shadow/light parts of the wall.

Below is my favorite picture from this particular setup.

 

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Below are two film based images from this setup.  Note the differences in quality from the digital images. 

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We move back out to the hallway & that patch of direct sunlight streaming in the tall window. 

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One of the advantages of working with another photographer is that you can get ideas from them.  Jessica is bouncing all around -- she is very focused & energetic when working.  I must say that we are both generous with each other, sharing ideas & angles.  I think this particular angle, with Yulia leaning back on the top step, was suggested to me by Jessica.  I like it a lot.

Below are my favorite images of Yulia's long white skirt.

 

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I admit, I just didn't understand the appeal of the blue dress, and I didn't make too many images with it.  But I've also got to admit that I like some of the images made when Yulia was wearing the long translucent white skirt.  I especially like the two images directly above.  I guess Yulia liked the skirt, too -- she purchased it when we were finished with the sitting.

But we finally get Yulia naked, and we continue to make images until it was time for the store downstairs to close. 

This sitting concludes with On Location, Nude

 

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All images (c) 2005 Looknsee Photography

Yulia #2 Out Takes

Nearly 100 more images from this sitting are available in the Out Takes Galleries.  These galleries are available to those who have made a donation to the upkeep of this web site.  See this FAQ question for more details.

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