{"id":1290,"date":"2018-07-23T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2018-07-23T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T23:27:14","slug":"shadows-with-kat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/shadows-with-kat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows with Kat 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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But then the work lights came on, and…\u00a0 Well that’s a really lovely glow, innit?<\/p>\n

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And after that, the coconut oil made such a difference to the nature of that glow.<\/p>\n

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And then, finally, the glitter.<\/p>\n

I like the reflections in this next shot.\u00a0 I swear that’s the first thing I noticed.<\/p>\n

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The glitter is tricky.\u00a0 It’s shiny as all hell, but in the photos it can too easily look like grey mud, rather than the sparkly silver coating it is.<\/p>\n

This last shot is just a quick snap under the fluorescent lights as Kat was getting ready to leave.\u00a0 I think it shows off the colour in the glitter a little better…\u00a0 and I am totally aware that it is just another close-up shot of boobs.<\/p>\n

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I’m sorry.<\/p>\n

Sort of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I always struggle with a black backdrop. In my mind, it’s the perfect thing for thick, goopy shadows and bodyscapes, but somehow it always ends up dark, blotchy and indistinct.<\/p>\n

But after the success of our efforts last time<\/a>, I invited Kat back to the studio to push a little farther into the shadows, and this time it didn’t go as well.<\/p>\n

I normally start these experimental shoots with a mental list of three or four things I want to try, and usually if one or more (or all) of them fail to pay off, we’ll find something that does. This time, though, I was failing to produce any compelling imagery, and with a model like Kat you gotta believe I felt this failure hard. How can I fail so badly when I’m working with such great material?<\/p>\n

So while I was freaking out internally, Kat was hunched over on the floor because the studio is very cold on most winter nights. To help her, I dragged out the halogen worklights, which are ~2000 watts of heat and light, and while she basked (not unlike a turtle might) I had an idea.<\/p>\n

The work lights put out a very attractive orange light, which made my normal white lights look incredibly blue.<\/p>\n

And lo. The shoot was underway again, and Kat was able to stay warm at the same time.<\/p>\n

And then I remembered the coconut oil. It was solid, in the cold, so we used the lights to melt it, at first holding it against the light, and later just leaving it on top of the lights. Handy things, these lights.<\/p>\n

And then, after a few slightly glossier shoots, I remembered the glitter.<\/p>\n

Kat likes glitter. A lot. After I buried her chest in a whole vial of the stuff she couldn’t stop smiling.<\/p>\n

Shoot saved. ^_^<\/p>\n

There’s just no getting away from the fact that this shoot is very boob-y, and I have misgivings about that.\u00a0 I have some difficulty working out the intersection between my specific interests and the art I want to create.\u00a0 Is this a beautiful shot because it’s a beautiful shot, or because boobs?<\/p>\n

That’s why you don’t see a lot of just nudes in my galleries.\u00a0 I’m not strong with the posing, and I’m not confident about the result.<\/p>\n

But, fuck it, I like these ones, so here they are.\u00a0 ^_^<\/p>\n

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After the last shoot I found I really liked this shot<\/a>, and I wanted to do more with hands<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But it was difficult.\u00a0 Natural hands are relaxed and surprisingly emotive, but posed hands…\u00a0 well, they’re just hands<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I mean, I really like this shot, it’s what I wanted more of.\u00a0 But I only got this one.<\/p>\n

So we tried some more nudes, and once again, only one or two shots were really interesting.\u00a0 I don’t do well with nudes.\u00a0 I struggle to pose them, to suggest things, and when the model’s beautiful but not, you know, a nude model, I have a significant responsibility to suggest some poses that work.\u00a0 \u00a0I do really like the two nude shots we got.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[47,55,4,2,16],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-glitter","tag-kat","tag-nude","tag-patreon","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}