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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is more or less that shot from the normal angle.<\/p>\n
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And we worked through some other pole moves that benefited from this sort of light. I don’t often know for sure what will work before we try it.<\/p>\n
This one for example, was like several others but cast light across her collar bones in a much more satisfying way than the rest.<\/p>\n
\nThis next shot was nearly perfect. I love everything about it.<\/p>\n
\nThese next two shots show radically different views of what is nearly the same pose. I was struggling with the lighting, and turned them all off to try and capture what I saw under the normal studio lights, and it was… I mean it’s good, insomuch as it represents the existence of a beautiful model, but it’s not tremendously compelling, right?<\/p>\n
\nAfter this reset I started over with the lights, and… Well I think I nailed it.<\/p>\n
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Which brings us to the last image, which is everything I wanted to capture in a dramatic, shadowy sort of style that’s still my style. It’s crisp, its lit well enough that the model’s every curve is precisely described.<\/p>\n
\nIt was a tremendous session. I learned a heap and these photos satisfy that creative itch quite handily. ^_^<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Note: After a discussion with the model, this post is limited to $10+ Patreon supporters. I don’t intend to make a habit of this.<\/p>\n
I love shooting with Kat. She’s got a razor sharp sass and she’s not afraid to hit me with it, and our shoots are half photography and half hilarity. And we always get some really great shots.<\/p>\n
But it’s difficult for me to come up with a theme, a reason, a point to the shoot, and I hate doing samey things. This time though, I had an idea: dramatic black and white shadows.<\/p>\n
Shadows are hard, in the small white box that is the NFGstudio. Light reflects from everywhere and so any lights I use have to be rigidly controlled to prevent those freewheeling photons from going where I’d prefer they didn’t. This means lots of grids to prevent spill, and placed closer to the model so less power – and less reflected light – is produced.<\/p>\n
This makes everything more difficult. Framing is harder when the lights are 50cm from her face, pole moves are nigh impossible when you have to give enough clearance to spin and extend a limb. The grids are super narrow in their output and a shift of ten centimeters is the difference between perfect and pointless, so when she spins, she’s in and out of the hot spot all the time.<\/p>\n
But boy, when it works, it works.<\/p>\n
This shot was just a test. I wasn’t in position, it was very crooked. But it has a real presence that I love. Accidental art. I’ll take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,55,4,2,15,49,16],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photos","tag-blackandwhite","tag-kat","tag-nude","tag-patreon","tag-poledancer","tag-strongwomen","tag-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","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=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2009,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/2009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfgphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}