Had a shoot with Rebecca Lawrence today – I’ve worked with her before, and she’s got to be one of the most experienced models I’ve ever been able to work with. Both times I shot with her, I felt like my game suddenly got elevated to the next level, which given the way I usually improve slowly and incrementally is highly unusual. We did a little bit of standing portraiture and some lingerie, then we went out to Jordan Lake for some outdoor shots. What we ended up with are some of the best images I’ve taken to date, even before the cropping and color correcting that will undoubtedly be needed. I was shooting both digital and film outdoors – 50mm f/1.4 Nikkor on the D70 digital, and a 75mm f/2.8 on the Pentax medium format. The film was 400 speed Tri-X Pan from Kodak, most of my outdoor frames are f/16 at a shutter speed of 1/500 or 1/250 sec. The digitals are mostly wider aperture, roughly the same shutter speed, but at a 200 speed setting.
I have a shoot tomorrow with Angelique Kithos, and I’m going to try to take her to the same spot – the water was about 75 degrees and there was barely a cloud in the sky all day. Gorgeous weather for sightseeing, but tomorrow should have scattered clouds, which is even more ideal for photography than clear skies. Next weekend I’m going to relax and not do any shooting, since I’m kind of swamped between work, class and shoots right now; I need the downtime. I also need to get off my tookus and prep the next SCG update – I’m about a week and a half behind already, but in all honesty, shooting and getting classwork (and homework) done is a higher priority.
In other news, next week (starting Monday, two days from now), I start trying to bike in to work as often as possible – I’ve been meaning to do that for two weeks now and either my schedule or the weather ha gotten in my way, but it looks like Monday will be perfect to start that habit.
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have some film that’s begging me to put it on a spool and soak it in some chemicals. 