Naked Girls reading

I just love the cat in this image!  Oh those eyes.

Tia on the Rocks

In the Curve

The amazing and talented Bella Blue.

I don't want to have my picture taken

Me:  But wait a minute you're  model, right? 
Model: Yes.  but I hate to have my picture taken.
Me:  I'm a little confused here,  this is what you do for a living... do you not like it that much?
Model:  No.  I love modeling I just hate to have my picture taken.   I prefer to create art,  something with meaning not just have my picture taken. 
Me: Ohhh.   Well I certainly understand that.  I don't want to take you're picture either.  Capture your soul maybe . . . but not take your picture. 
Model: Then we agree.
Me:  Yes we are in complete agreement.

Candace Nirvana

There seems to be a consistent debate that I am having about this image.  Is there too much clutter in the photograph so that it distracts the viewer from the form and the woman.   Or does the reflection in the mirror mimic a painting in the frame.   Please comment..

Susie B 100 Poses

Part of a series of images, that I named 100 poses.  Basically the model get this table and 100 frames to pose with it however they want.   It's amazing how similar and how different each one is.

Vipond

Oh That Susie B!

Fantastic week/weekend with Susie B.  A naturally beautiful model came to town to run in a race and I was lucky to have time with her to shoot two amazing sets. 

vivian

The gymnast!

Kenny again

Kenny s quickly becoming one of my more versatile models. He shows up in the oddest of places. . .

You can leave your hat on.

Forbidden Fruit

The Two Swimmers

A rare treat this weekend with Bella Blue and Nettie Harris together. Yay! These two beautiful and incredibly talented models were so much fun to work with and they put up with my crazy ideas and concepts.

Kaitlyn

Today I started out slow with a new model who had never posed nude before. She had actually only done two shoots in her life. She was extremely nervous as we started out. I did my best to calm her nerves, but it was evident in the first set that she was extremely tense and uncomfortable. She told me that she ran around her apartment naked to help her get used to being nude. We both chuckled at that. I finished the first set and I stopped and downloaded the card so that she could see the images. Most were awkward at best but we found one that she really liked. I told her that at this point everything else is lagniappe, and usually the first set is a throw away anyway because we are getting used to each other. I took a minute to show her poses from Victoria's Secret and from my previous shoots with great models. She started to understand.

Set number two and I could feel that she was finally beginning to trust me. "Point your toes, chin down, close your eyes and relax you face, stand on your tippy toes." All pointers that I gave her and she took direction extremely well. Once she learned a concept she didn't forget it. I showed her a couple of in camera images. Great work, I encouraged, nudging her self esteem. I wouldn't say that we had a breakthrough but she was now pretty relaxed in front of camera. Again back to the computer so she could see the work. "Wow I didn't realize that I could take that kind of picture" she beamed.

Set 3 I had 27 mins left before she had to leave. I pull all the props away and just shoot her plain on the wall. "Keep moving every frame." I am snapping away and she is really working her look. We agree to meet again to continue to work.

End of the day. I am going through the images and many of them are good, a couple of them are excellent images. A wonderful day with a sweet person and a really good new model with tons of potential.


Enjoy the images.

Published!

I am officially published in Carrie Leigh Nude Magazine Spring Issue 2009. 8 Pages! I can't even believe it.

The link to the brief preview is here: I also have a cover mention!

http://www.carrieleigh.com/Nissues.html

Scott Paul Designs

Custom blindfold by Scott Paul Designs

FQ shoot

Kenny and Rory.

Guerilla Foiled.

Unfortunately my shoot this morning got called off. 4:30 am text. My model got sick and had to cancel. I was hoping to get some images for an editorial feature coming up. I did have a great fashion/cover shoot on Saturday.

Boxed In

Recently, when I answered a casting by a young and perhaps naive model she wrote:

thanks for your interest! i was going through your port and love your work. what would you be interested in shooting? there's not much of a market for **** pinups and i don't have the wardrobe for it :/ and i'm tired of seeing my naked, saggy boobs lol

Perhaps I misunderstood her reply but I interpreted it as the model thought I was a photographer who is only able to shoot nudes and pinups. I have fashion and some beauty images in this particular portfolio too. I kind of let her go by the wayside and haven't responded to this.

I do not like stereotypes or boxes that people put me in. I shoot many different genres yet Galleries, Portfolio Reviews and Institutions want to see a consistent style and look. God forbid you step outside your look to experiment as an artist. If I decided to shoot Mardi Gras candid images this weekend that would be frowned upon. Good thing that Mardi Gras includes naked women in public, that way I can stay in my genre.

I am currently compling images for an upcoming book and it is quite a dauting task. Aside from culling through 300+ images that were already deemed worthy of retouching or converting to black and white. I keep finding more gems along the way. A nice distraction.

Here is Sarah again: Two sides of a very beautiful coin. I think she was kind of surprised to see the reflected images in the window in the finals. I was consciously framing for both poses as well as trying to keep myself out of the reflection too.