In The Tub
November 4th, 2014
Claudine has an amazing apartment and in it is the best bathroom I’ve ever seen. It just requires all sorts of fooling around.
Once you get started doing photos like these there’s no telling what you will end up doing. And, of course, there’s that fisheye lens too.
And, as the day passes the light changes, both in quality and color. Mix in some artificial light and things start to look a little different.
Thanks, Claudine, for sharing your beautiful space as well as your beautiful body.
Calendar Sale
November 4th, 2014
Calendars are on sale again. You can save 25% if you order before November 13. Use the code 25CAL when you check out. You can buy my calendars here…or just click on the calendars in the right hand column.
Turning the Fisheye on Claudine
October 31st, 2014
Still running about a year behind on posting here. About a year ago I was up in Chicago and got the chance to work with the amazing Claudine at her beautiful apartment overlooking the lake. As you can see, it’s a pretty fine place to shoot. It was also helpful that it was a cloudy day, so the light was perfect.
It just seemed like a good space to use the fisheye, so out it came.
That lens can be a lot of fun to play with, especially in a space where everything is so lovely.
Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Claudine is a lovely lady and a very talented model. Thanks Claudine. I’ll have some more to post from this shoot that look a little more conventional. Stand by for more.
Southern Exposure
October 26th, 2014
I travel to the Charleston/Savannah area whenever I get the chance. Especially in the winter. And when I’m there I always try to shoot with one of my favorite models, Sarah 219.
For this shoot last year I had the good fortune to be able to work with a photographer friend in the neighborhood, George Weld.
George took us to a private location where we were free to work without concern of being interrupted or of scandalizing anyone.
Unfortunately, as seems to always be the case when I’m working in this area, the light was not being cooperative and I had to deal with strong direct sunlight. Not the best light for the work I like to do. But with a beautiful spot and a very lovely and talented model, I was able to come up with a few photos that I like.
I think this last one is my favorite. Thanks Sarah and George. Hope to see you both again soon.
Lindsay Hooping It Up
October 23rd, 2014
I suspect you are all quite tired of looking at photos of that old house…even with the lovely Ayn decorating them. So, on to something completely different.
These are some photos of my friend and multi-talented performer, Lindsay Nova. I met her a few years ago when she was studying dance at my alma mater, Ohio University, and I was doing photos of their dance concerts. For this shoot we wanted to capture her performing with her lighted hoops. A black background, a little strobe and a long exposure caught some interesting effects.
Lindsay is a great multi-faceted performer and also a yoga instructor. You can find out more about her at her facebook page linked above. Check her out.
Ayn In The House
October 21st, 2014
One last post from my shoot with Ayn at the house. I didn’t just do photos of the house. How could I not also do some photos of the beautiful model who was working so hard to help me make these photos.
So, here are a few photos that are more portraits of Ayn than photos of the house with a nude figure.
Ayn is a great model but also a lovely woman and a friend. She’s a person I respect and admire. And she’s a lot of fun to work with.
And she can make a doorway look pretty damn good.
More Than One Nice Window
October 17th, 2014
That one dormer is lovely, but it isn’t the only beautiful spot in that old house. Here is Ayn showing off her lovely figure in some other interesting windows in the house.
Yep, that’s another odd dormer in the background. A different one from the one in the earlier posts.
Here’s Ayn showing off her posing skills in that dormer.
And downstairs there’s a great bay window.
No fisheye in any of these…they were all done with the 12-24. Still all shot at 1600 ISO. I treat everything from 100 to 1600 ISO as just exposure control since there is almost no noticeable difference in the files from my Nikon D7000. There’s a bit of noise at 1600, but no where near the grain of Tri-X at 400. That’s my standard for comparison.
More From The Dormer
October 14th, 2014
Here are a few more shots from that same dormer in my favorite old house. Ayn was having a ball finding different ways to pose in that little space. For the one above I switched the fisheye to a horizontal composition to see how the fisheye effect looked and then used Photoshop to straighten out the curves a bit so it looks more like a regular ultra-wide angle lens.
For the two shots below I switched to my 12-24mm lens, shooting at 12mm. These are not adjusted in Photoshop, though Camera RAW does do a bit of correction on them automatically.
That 25 percent off sale on my calendars ends at midnight tomorrow…Wednesday. Don’t miss it if you are thinking of buying a calendar. Enter the code: EATYOUREGGS at checkout to get the discount.
That Old House
October 11th, 2014
There’s a story to go with these photos. Sorry about that.
Some old friends of mine have been buying old houses in my hometown and fixing them up. Several years ago they drove me around town to show me their houses. When they pulled up in front of one house I was surprised. I had tried to buy this house many years ago when I was buying my first house. We couldn’t agree on a price, so I moved on and bought a different house. But I always remembered how beautiful this house was and wished I could have had the chance to shoot some photos in it.
When I told my friend this story she said, “Well, why don’t you bring a model and do some photos now.” So I did. Since then I’ve done shoots in that house a couple times and this shoot makes three. They had rented the house to good tenants for several years, but eventually the tenants moved out and my friends decided to do a complete remodel before putting it back on the rental market.
So I took advantage of the opportunity to do another shoot there. I took my favorite local model, Ayn, over to my old home town and we spent a day seeing what we could come up with in this old house. As you can see, when you have a talented, beautiful and creative model like Ayn there are all sorts of possibilities.
This little dormer in the attic has always been my favorite spot in the house. The plaster work is just so interesting. This time I used a lens that I hadn’t had when I did the earlier shoots. It’s a Pro-Optic 8mm fisheye. I used Photoshop to do some straightening of the curved fisheye look. These were shot with my Nikon D7000 at 1600 ISO with exposures in the neighborhood of 1/15 to 1/40 wide open at f/3.5. It’s a fun little lens for places like this.
I’ll have more from this shoot to share in my next couple posts.
Thanks Ayn.
Calendar Sale
October 10th, 2014
If you are thinking about buying one of my 2015 calendars now is a good time. My publisher is running a sale in honor of World Egg Day (go figure?) You can get 25% off on your order by entering the code EATYOUREGGS at checkout. That’s about as good a sale as they ever offer, so don’t miss this chance to save a bunch. The sale runs through October 15. You can see and order my calendars at my on line store here: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/wayward or just click on the calendars in the column to the right.
