I’ve been plugging along – working on images for the B&H Portfolio Development series. I’m still experimenting – not quite having a set direction but it’s fun to try things that I don’t normally do.
For this set my older daughter posed for me. I was inspired by Mother Gothel for this session. You know – the evil mom from the Rapunzel story. My daughter has great hair and I just had a vision of her wearing a hooded cape. It pays to have a friend who’s a consume designer! I borrowed a cape from her and went to a store called Conway to get a really inexpensive dress. I wanted something long, fluffy and in the reddish orange color range. and didn’t want to spend a lot of money on it since I knew we’d be traipsing through the woods. I think I spent $7! What a deal!
My daughter rarely lets me photograph her these days. She’s at that tween age! She allotted me a half an hour of her time only because it was around my birthday! She was pretty moody as you can see from her expression but fortunately I go for moody in my images.
We did this back in November at the peak of Fall foliage but I wanted to give it a more artsy, fairytale, mystical feel so I deepened the colors.
This next one I kept truer to the original colors. Because I used my 70-200 lens with a wide aperture of 2.8, it blurred all of the leaves in the background and gave it this swirly, painterly feel.
Because I can’t help myself, I also had to try it in black and white. I like both versions – they have a completely different feel from each other.
Before I knew it, my half hour was up!
Yesterday I went back to B&H for another crit session. I’ll write about it in a separate post.
I have more classes to attend and more ideas to explore as I make my way through this portfolio development series.
To see other posts from this series check here.
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