52 Week Photo Challenge - Week Forty-Three!
Bomber nose art is a military tradition and began for practical reasons of identifying other aircrafts. This practice evolved into a way of expression often constrained by the uniformity of the military. It was used to evoke memories of the home and peacetime life and was a kind of psychological protection against the stresses of war and the possibility of death. My favorite were the paintings of girls sitting on bombs.
Week Forty-Three - Take control in Photoshop!
I had this image planned out way before we shot it and it was going to require a lot of photoshop play to pull it off. The costume was the inspiration. My model bought the costume for Halloween and wanted to make use of it in other ways. We were planning on recreating images from the early 1900's 'girls on bombs'. I found the perfect bomb to edit in. We used a chair and the bomb came later. The rest is history.
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Next week's challenge - Paintbrush!
52 Week Photo Challenge - Week Forty-Two!
To me there is nothing more beautiful then a baby bump!
Week Forty-Two - Silhouette!
When creating a silhouette it is easy to just outline a person against a white backdrop. But the challenge is finding the lines that make for a mysterious photo. A silhouette strips your subject down to the most basic elements and highlights very simple features. That shape is what makes these photos so compelling and what draws your attention in. During one of my maternity photo shoots I saw just that. The mystery behind the human form and how it can become so many different shapes. A silhouette strips your subject down to the most basic elements and highlights very simple features. That shape is what makes these photos so compelling and what draws your attention in.
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Next week's challenge - Take control in Photoshop!
52 Week Photo Challenge - Week Forty-One!
A high key image is one with predominantly light with tones in the white and highlight range. There are very little shadows and the histogram is skewed far to the right. They are clean and soft, elegant images used in a lot of beauty and fashion magazines.
Week Forty-One - High Key Image!
I love white on white in photographs. It makes for an angelic and magical photo!. I wanted to reduce the shadows on my models face so the light is relatively flat and the white backdrop is over exposed. I just love how innocently seductive this photo turned out to be.
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Next week's challenge - Silhouette!
52 Week Photo Challenge - Week Forty!
This was a really fun shoot! I have always seen these photos done before and love the way they turn out. I could not wait to try.
Week Forty - Shoot from an extreme angle!
I am lucky to have a loft studio so I can go upstairs and take photos from the second floor down! That was the easy part. It is actually somewhat of a difficult task figuring out where to put the legs under the dress and then where to put the hands. The lying down position is always a hard one. We tried everything and I think we finally got it! I am totally in love with this photo!
Next week's challenge - High Key Image!
52 Week Photo Challenge - Week Thirty-Nine!
The Ziegfeld Follies were a series of elaborate theatrical Broadway productions in the early 1900's. Several of the top entertainers of the era were seen in these shows and many of them were captured in photographs.
Week Thirty-Nine - Vintage Photo Look!
The photographer famous for photographing the Ziegfeld Follies is named Alfred Cheney Johnston. He created indoor studio black and white portraits with the most amazing vintage look and feel. These glamorous vaudeville photographs were produced to glorify the american girl. He used subtle colors and sepias tones in his photos. His use of glamorous costuming and lack-there-of is what drew me to this work. I had so much fun with this shoot. I shot in black and white and took my time carefully placing fabric as to show just enough.
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Next week's challenge - Extreme Angle!
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