Another Session with Ingrid and Skulls

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This session was an oddity for Ingrid and I; so much of our work together is focused on bodies in landscape that it is unusually for the two of us to work together indoors. A month earlier, we had spent some time working with some small skulls, and this session was planned as a continuation of that approach.

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Much of the first half of the session was spent focused on portraits - Ingrid's comfort with modeling really comes across in portraits, and the natural luminosity of the infrared camera worked well with the white sheets Ingrid posed upon.

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The end of the session had us returning to the skulls, but this time, I worked with a little more distance, emphasizing the delicate scale of the skulls against Ingrid's body.

The Magic of Digital infrared

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I am occasionally asked why I prefer to work with infrared cameras so much; I have few examples as powerful as that of mussels; in IR, they are just SO different from in colour (the irony of course being that I never use infrared images in colour...but the blue is so pretty in this case!).

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a Second Session with Elena Indoors

This portrait of Elena is from my first session working with an infrared converted Nikon D80, and overall I am very pleased. And Elena is one of the only models I have worked with who’s eyes go lighter in IR, not darker!

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Working with the IR converted D80 was a great improvement over the previous IR camera (a D70); the RGB histogram made an immediate difference in creating accurate exposures, and the increased resolution (10 mp vs 6mp) was welcome as well.

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In many ways, my winter indoor sessions are practice; as much as I like the results, they never resonate with me as strongly as images of the Nude outdoors; with Elena however, there is an extra edge to these images - her face carries beautifully in portraits, and help strengthen the images overall.

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