Archives for the 'available light' Category
Where Do Models Come From, Part 5
Sunday, December 16th, 2012
Where do models come from? Sometimes you find them where you are. That’s the case with Rachel. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I first photographed her more than 10 years ago when I went to Maine to shoot nudes on the coast. She lived near the spot where I was planning to shoot […]
Where Do Models Come From, Part 4
Friday, November 16th, 2012
There are models and then there are models. All my models are friends. I don’t work with models who I don’t enjoy being around and who don’t appreciate and understand what I’m trying to do with my work. Life is too short. So, all my models are special to me. But there is one model […]
Where Do Models Come From, Part 3
Thursday, November 8th, 2012
Sometimes I find myself looking around for models to work with. But sometimes something wonderful happens. That’s what happened when Kelsey Dylan contacted me to say she wanted to model for me. Oh, happy day! She said she was soon going to the west coast to go to college, but wanted to work with me […]
Where Do Models Come From, Part 2
Thursday, November 1st, 2012
A little more to be said about where models come from. Sometimes they just show up and volunteer. Sometimes they have never done anything like this before, but they want to give it a shot. There can be many reasons they want to try nude modeling. A number have said to me essentially the same […]
Where Do Models Come From?
Monday, October 22nd, 2012
I’ve been photographing nude models for a long time. Much longer than most of my current models have been alive. I was shooting nudes long before there was an internet. Long before there were internet modeling sites and full-time traveling internet models. Times have changed. Back in those dark ages before the internet my models […]
All My Life’s a Circle
Wednesday, October 10th, 2012
The trip I took to Maine this summer was special in many ways. It marked a decade since I had made my first trip to Maine to do nude photos, back in 2002. The shoot I did on the coast with two wonderful models was my “Eureka” moment when I realized that I should be […]
Sometimes the Magic Works; Sometimes It Doesn’t
Saturday, October 6th, 2012
“Sometimes the magic works; sometimes it doesn’t.” That was one of the many wise things that Old Lodge Skins said in the movie, Little Big Man. And it wasn’t something he was upset about. It was just a fact. Well, it’s true of the magic of photography. Especially true when you are dealing with the […]
Angie’s Back
Sunday, September 30th, 2012
As you may remember from an earlier post, Angie recently had a baby. I enjoyed photographing them together in my studio. Well, Angie is back as a model and she’s as lovely as ever. So we went back to our favorite location to do some new photos. I’ve shot Angie here time and time again […]
Pittsburgh Pinhole Adventures
Friday, September 21st, 2012
When I was over in Pittsburgh with Ayn and Sugar Dumpling I took advantage of the opportunity to work with my new wide-angle pinhole “lens” on my Olympus micro 4/3 camera. The top photo was taken with the camera on a tripod with a 4 second exposure time. All the others were hand held with shutter […]
Pittsburgh Adventure and New Directions
Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
I know it’s been a long time since my last post. Sorry about that. But you might as well get used to it. I’m working on some different things these days and those things are not going to be posted in this blog. I’m doing much less work with nude models now, although I expect […]
