After
a hearty lunch and some relaxation, the entire retreat group bundled
into cars and headed out in search of spaces in which to work. On our
drive to pick up Victoria two days earlier, Annie and I had passed by
several old barns and abandoned farms, and it was to
one of these that Victoria and I went, hoping to build on the morning's
work in the house.
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| 35mm infrared film |
The
first thing we did when we arrived at the McAlister homestead was
explore the immediate vicinity. The small farmhouse, which I'd been
hoping to work within, was firmly shut up, and neither I nor Victoria
had any interest in becoming criminals and breaking into the house
simply for some photographs. The outbuildings, however, were all open,
and after making some quick images of Victoria standing in the tall
grasses behind the house, we moved into the smallest outbuilding, a
small shack with a decided lean to it.
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| 4"x5" camera |
Similar
to the homestead where we'd worked earlier, the feed shack had
wonderful light coming through the cracks between the wall and roof
boards. Also, with the later afternoon light, a broad sheet of light was
coming through the window on the far side of the room, providing a good
amount of reflection up from the floor. We worked in the space for a
number of images, varying the pose and composition.
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| 4"x5" camera |
It
was about an hour before we finally left the farm, during which time
the other retreat members explored and played with the settings. At the
close of the second day of working with Victoria in Alberta, I was
feeling very satisfied; both sessions had gone well, and I was confident
that the decision to fly a model out was paying off already. As opposed
to starting out with a new group of models, and building a
relationship and body of work from scratch, Victoria and I simply picked
up on our work in Nova Scotia, building the Alberta Portfolio on top of
a year's experience making images together.
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