Digital infrared original, 3 image composite |
It
isn't often that I can definitively say a session is the "last one",
but in this case, as Bianca was heading for another country four days
after this session, there's little doubt this will be her last session
with me in 2014 (she is hoping to be back in Nova Scotia in 2015, so my
fingers are crossed for more work to be made in the coming year).
As
an outdoor session was not an option, we headed to the apartment of a
friend of hers, which promised a bay window and lots of light. After
making a whole series of images exploring motion (Bianca has a dance
background), I made three of her working with the window, with the
intent to assemble them into a single image; in the end, two of the
three worked perfectly (the ones of Bianca against the side window), and
while the third, of her standing in the centre, fell short, a later
image of her bending forward and touching the floor was ideal to
complete the final composition.
Digital infrared original, 3 image exposure blend |
After
working with a dramatic low point of view and infrared at length,
before setting aside the widow all together, I made some colour
photographs of Bianca against the morning light. I still feel clumsy
when it comes to photographing in colour, but the brilliant, luminous
window provided such rich light for Bianca's figure, and gave such
lovely soft skin tones that I just had to leave the image in colour.
Digital original |
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