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Cheryl
and I set out in this session to further pursue the focus-effect images
which grew out of my January studio images. The work I've done
previously pretty much ironed out the technical issues, so where before I
was struggling with composition, focus-effect and such, I could now
turn my attention to simply making the images.
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I found a pose that I felt worked, I put far more effort in to the
camera positioning and framing, trying to work with the film image as a
whole. There had been a discussion of composition on-line recently, and
it had made me think more carefully about how I used the shape and frame
of my images, and how that influenced the viewer's perception. I often
wonder how precise one can be in framing, while still making an image
seem lose and open. Too deliberate a composition can strangle a
photograph, making it seem too contrived. By the same token, a disregard
for the composition of an image can swiftly make a photo fall apart.
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the whole, I think the best images from this session show a stronger
compositional element than my earlier focus-effect nudes. The formal
quality which is so much a part of my outdoor work did not play a big
part in my January 1999 studio work, but I think it was one of the
contributing factors to the success of these images.
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