More Carrie at School
October 15th, 2023
Here’s another set of photos of the lovely and talented Carrie Turner at an old schoolhouse.
The old classroom offered a nice background with a lot of options to use the light in different ways.
And working with a beautiful model obviously didn’t hurt.
For these photos I used a trusty old Nikkor lens that would connect with the new Nikon Z7ii. It was a lens for a cropped sensor, so it didn’t take advantage of the full-frame sensor in the new Nikon. And it was only an adequately sharp lens, so it couldn’t show the full quality of the new camera. Nevertheless, it let me make some nice photos of Carrie.
The light streaming through the windows offered an opportunity for some high key photos.
It still remained for a new lens to arrive to let me see just what the new camera could do.
Back to School with Carrie
October 10th, 2023
For a time beautiful, talented model Carrie Turner had studio space in an old school building. We did a couple shoots there. These photos are from the first time we worked together there.
I was working with my new Nikon Z7ii camera. I didn’t yet have a z-mount lens to use with it, so I spent this shoot playing around with other options. The two photos above were made with a pinhole on the new camera. So, don’t worry, it’s not the camera causing the softness…
After playing with the pinhole I put my old single-element soft-focus lens on the new Nikon to see what it would look like. I love that old lens, but hadn’t used it much since I went to digital cameras because the crop-sensor digital Nikons made it too long an effective focal length to be very useful for portraits. But the new Nikon Z is “full-frame” so the lens was back to it’s 100mm focal length.
Along with being soft focus, this lens does some fun things with flare and backlight.
And Carrie’s brilliant modeling took full advantage of the qualities of this lens.
I also used some more “regular” lenses from my old Nikon F-mount collection.
Some of the old lenses began to show just how sharp the sensor in the new Nikon could be.
A Fine Day
October 7th, 2023
From the looks of the memories my computer shows me, October 7 seems to have been a great day for making art over the years. Above and below from 2004.
This next one from 2013.
And three from 2018.
There were, of course, lots more from each of those days, but these are the ones that popped up in my memories.
This is More Than a Test
October 3rd, 2023
When I got my new Nikon Z7ii the camera body arrived before the lens I had ordered for it. But I did get an adapter so I could use my old F-mount lenses with the new camera, so, of course, I had to do some testing.
I got together with wonderful model and muse, Eden, to start learning the new camera. The only lens I owned that would properly “talk” to the camera with the adapter was my old 18-200 crop-sensor lens. Not the sharpest lens out there, but everything worked automatically, so I used it for most of the shots.
And I did use another old lens…my 50-year-old soft-focus lens. It’s my favorite soft-focus lens, but I hadn’t used it much for many years because its 100mm focal length made it somewhat less useful on crop-sensor cameras. But the new camera is “full-frame” so I was happy to find that the old lens worked well on the new camera.
Not too shabby for a camera test shoot…
Eden in the Studio
September 28th, 2023
A few studio figure studies with the lovely Eden.
Getting Messy With Carrie
September 24th, 2023
After we shot some body paint photos with Carrie, we smeared the paint around for a different look.
Carrie did a wonderful job with this shoot. It is a true joy to work with such a great model. Thanks Carrie.
More Body Paint
September 20th, 2023
More of superb, beautiful model Carrie in body paint.
Carrie In Her Studio
September 17th, 2023
I photographed one of my favorite models, Carrie Turner, at her studio a while back.
We started out doing a few figure photos.
Then we moved on to the main reason for this shoot. Body paint…
It was a very successful shoot. Lots more to come from it in future posts…
2024 Calendars
September 14th, 2023
As you may have noticed, my 2024 calendars have been published and are available for order. This is the link to my store. The calendar above is “G Rated.” It’s just some random photos with no nudity.
Above is my nude calendar for 2024. The calendar below is all black and white photos from a new portrait project that I’m currently working on. A few of the photos in the portrait calendar contain very mild nudity.
Behind the Scenes at the Toadstools
September 12th, 2023
For the final post from this wonderful expedition in the desert Southwest, here are a few behind the scenes shots from our last day of shooting.
Thanks to the amazing, beautiful models, Gillian, Cheryl and Eden.
And, of course, we mustn’t forget photographer Dave Rudin who was the impetus for this adventure.
That’s all from this shoot. Next up, something different.
