Figure on a Bed

Although I often shot color film on theater assignments, I very rarely shot color for fine art figure work.  I didn't have the equipment to develop and print color, and so couldn't easily control the results.

Now that I was shooting digitally, I had to learn the color process all over again.  At first it was all too easy, and I succumbed to the ability to shoot color just about anywhere I liked, with very little discrimination, I'm afraid.

The image above is the result of an early attempt.  I met the model, Brandon, at a Bachelorette Party.  He was part of the entertainment.

His ease in the situation, coupled with his talent for movement, caught my attention.  And, OK, he was pretty.  But he had a personality  to match, and we started talking.  Before the party ended, he had agreed to a shoot.



Nude in Doorway

From the same shoot.  The model, an actor/dancer with a gymnastics background, had the physique of a Greek kouros figure, and so I purposefully posed him in that attitude.

This was part of an experimental series with the digital point and shoot, and impromptu. 

I had no studio space at the time, so this was shot in the hallway of my condo in Houston.

Natural light, with heavy dodging in Photoshop.