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For
L_'s fourth session working with me, we headed back to the coast, to work
with the rocks and ocean that have long been my love, aesthetically. The
day's forecast was for nothing but sun, and we could only work together
during the middle of the day (i.e. when the light is at it's worst),
but knowing the location well, I expected I could work around the light,
and get some images worth our mutual time and effort.
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Digital infrared, 2 frame shutter blend
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One
of the great advantage of working in infrared is how it renders foliage
and plants - including seaweed. The rockweed in this image, a dull
green-brown in colour, is almost as luminous as L_'s skin, and when
combined with a long shutter speed to blur the waves breaking against
the shore, it creates a magical environment for L_ to post in. All told,
we made a dozen or more variations on this image, experimenting with
different poses.
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I
really like the classic lines of this pose; coupled with the rock that
almost envelopes L_, and the flow of the sky above, it all comes
together into a really pleasing composition. The second last image of
the session, made almost three hours after the first, provides some
evidence of how little the sun changed during the session - the light
was still harsh, direct, and from almost directly above.
Is it only "mad dogs and Englishmen" (and photographers) who go out in the mid-day Sun.
ReplyDeleteI shot, what to my mind, is my best nude, at mid-day at the height of a South African Summer, on huge Granite boulders, but fortunately the light bouncing off the light grey rock was more than enough to soften the shadows, but rendering those parts of the boulder in complete shade, a deep black, giving me what looked like a black backdrop, which is what I had hoped for.
Love this set Eric. But then all your work is magical.