Katie Marie

Fun With Photoshop. I can't decide which one I like best– so here are three different versions. I usually do the depth of field blur with the lens only, but sometimes it's interesting to play around with Photoshop to get different results. The thing with PS is that it can look a bit fake (because it is...), and with the lens it always looks real.

Nathalia

While the thigh high suspenders were perhaps unnecessary (but a nice touch), the shoes definitely were necessary— the tar rooftop was really dirty and sticky.

Ajaye

Same thing, different points of view...

PXE

“Being in the womb was like taking a nine-month bath. I wanted to take a shower, but no matter how hard I kicked, or how loud I screamed, my mom wouldn’t listen.”  ~ Jarod Kintz

Maia

American Apparel ad?

Ajaye

Trying out a new tie, with some new hemp rope. It's actually quite simple, but I love the versatility of it.

Little One

Getting ready for a suspension.

Ajaye

The dreadlocks are gone...

Heff

More of the new window series...

Isabelle

"I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room."  ~Helmut Newton

Lady Lazarus

The fifty-year-old mattress adds a nice aesthetic.

Ajaye

L'Origine Du Monde.

Twinky

I've done a lot of maternity portraits over the years— but they are most often paid shoots where I cater towards the images being natural and flattering. Not to mention that I'm usually more concerned with making my subject comfortable, rather than experimenting. Here is pregnancy image where I was able to experiment a bit more.

Miera

Bettie Page inspired.

Little One

Yes, yet another shower shot. What can I say– shooting in the shower seems to access certain expressions which can't be captured without the magical properties of warm water. The comfort of water falling just simply relaxes most people, summoning a very natural body language.

Percolate

Sfumato.

Heff

Detail.

Meira

Fakey-fake pole dancin'

Izzy

Izzy, cleaning the floor.

Sarah

This makes for a nice little series. The down on the floor with the subject point of view has always been one of my favorites. BTW, that is a stocking that she is pulling off her legs with her mouth. I don't typically like to explain what's going on in a photograph, but in this case, it perhaps makes more sense with that helpful hint. If that causes this image to be a fail, then oh well. I guess I might like it more than many others– simply because I remember liking it as I shot it. That's probably not a problem that I should complain about, even if it happens often.

Tali De'Mar

Close-up face-off: An instance in movies or TV shows when two people face off for an argument and the shot zooms in on one's face and then the other's. It continually switches back and forth. A shorter series of shots can be used for drama while a strangely long series of shots is usually used for comedy.

Maeve

I really dig the composition on this one. The high ceiling and a good ladder definitely helped.

Heff

This seems like a good start to a new window series.

Lyndsay

I always love an unusual point of view.

Lucy & Nathalia

The Glom.

Stephanie

First shoot in this new tub.

Percolate

"If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough."   ~Robert Cappa

Sadly, Robert Cappa (a war photographer) died from stepping on a land mine, trying to get that last shot.

Scarlett

A little prettier than usual...

Heff

Stocking fetish.

Ether

Ether lives in Brooklyn and is a vegan. Not that those two things necessarily have anything to do with each other. She occasionally visits Philadelphia, and we either do a shoot or do lunch at Harmony, the vegetarian restaurant up the street. Ether comes across as a very natural hippie chick in person, but actually has quite a few intense fetishes. We've done a couple of suspension shoots, which she loves. She used to be a cutter- that's what the marks on her legs are.

Iris & Devorah

Wax on, wax off...

Jade Vixen

If In the Mood for Love was a little more fetish oriented...

Amaya

Before & After.

Percolate

A close up and a pan out. There is often more to something than meets the eye. Sometimes a lot more...

Miera

An older image, which is why she is missing quite a few tattoos...

Percolate & Autumn

Ninja-Hump: When one comes up behind someone and clandestinely humps them for a short period of time, and disappears before the humpee knows what has happened... Like a ninja.