Monday, February 22, 2016

Thursday, February 18, 2016

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.





Saturday, February 13, 2016

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.




Wednesday, January 13, 2016

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.














Monday, January 4, 2016

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.


Saturday, January 2, 2016

Maeve

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






Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Monday, December 28, 2015

Monday, December 21, 2015

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.







Sunday, December 13, 2015

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.












Friday, December 11, 2015

Wednesday, December 9, 2015

Percolate

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









Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Miera

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





Tuesday, December 1, 2015

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.






Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Jade Vixen

I was tempted to Photoshop the armpit, but I resisted. Even after all these years, I'm still trying to figure out what should be left in and what should be touched-up.






Monday, November 23, 2015

Katie Marie

One is not born a woman, but rather becomes one.   ~Simone De Beauvoir






Lyndsay

Twister. Yeah, the twister comes, here comes the twister...




Saturday, November 21, 2015

Maggie

She comes from a land down under... where women glow and men plunder.









Sofia & Cammy

One of my favorite 'tricks' are nudes that I can shape, contort, bend and light into abstract shapes. I love it when the viewer's eye must explore the shapes, highlights, and shadows... and barely notice the nudity. Nudity is just the canvas, secondary to the composition and impact of the photograph. I want the eye to dance around the image, exploring the tonalities and elegant lines of the image. Making the image B&W get's rid of the flesh tone, and completes the transformation...










Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Ajaye



"Any photographer who says he’s not a voyeur is either stupid or a liar."   ~Helmut Newton





Monday, November 16, 2015