Post by Blue Moon Staff
“An artist is one who can see divinity in nudity!” ” ―
New and potential clients often ask what they should wear for an their intimate portraiture session and the answer always comes down to one important point: The style of the clothing you wear—or not wear—should match either your own or maybe a dream (fantasy) that you may have. Most importantly, clients should wear as much or as little as they’re comfortable wearing. The reason for this is that the single most important aspect of any portrait is the subject’s face! And your face will reflect your comfort level.
For some women the answer might be more covered up, while others will be comfortable wearing something while showing some part of her body uncovered, as is the subject of today’s portrait. She’s putting on or taking off a kimono that she wore during various poses we tried. She liked this one best.
How I made this portrait: This brings me to the last shoot that I did with Pam when she was (sort of) wearing an authentic Japanese kimono. One of the delights of working with Pam was never knowing what her hair style or even its color would be from shoot-to-shoot. And as you can see in today’s featured image, her hair is much longer than in some of our previous shoots together and more pale in color.
Today’s image is from our last—I hope it’s not the final—portrait session together that we had. The above image was shot in my 11×15-foot home studio using a Panasonic Lumix GH4 with an image stabilized Lumix G Vario 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 (at 26mm) lens that I purchased from a camera store in Japan, via eBay. Exposure was 1/125 sec at f 10 and ISO 200. Lighting was provided by two Paul C Buff DigiBee DB800’s and one Alien Bee B800 lights. Background was the handpainted Carbonite muslin from Silverlake Photo. Image was retouched with Imagenomics’ Portraiture and enhanced with Color Pro.
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