So Many Stars

Tangled

experiments with the Fuji X Pro-1’s in-camera double exposures.

Incident Projection

first art nude shoot of 2013. shot 18 frames of Ilford FP4 4×5 at a slow, studied pace. i’m feeling like the results speak for themselves.

scan of the 4×5 negative.

model: Vdb Nudes

One of the first shoots I did down at the Jordan Street Studio. This would be about the time that I fell in love with the natural light down there. This photo leads off the book Jordan Street: Studio Nudes, 2008-2011 available now at the iBookstore.

model: carly erin

Leave Me Something

natural light coming in through the double doors on my balcony. maybe i should make some prints of this over the weekend.

scan of a 6×7 negative from 2010
ilford delta 400

model: Lili Adonia

we were wrong

pretty sure this was hand-held, 1/2 second. scan of the 4×5 fujiroid negative, inverted and color corrected a bit.

radiant

from an abandoned industrial complex this past summer when the days were almost unbearably warm.

model: candace nirvana

scan from 4×5 negative.

Ilford HP5+ at ISO 800, developed in XTOL 1+1

The Candid

often times when i’m looking to create something, the most perfect moment comes when models aren’t trying to pose. it’s the weirdest thing because they’re all trying to give you their best “poses” but yet, the things that happen in between are the ones that really capture my imagination. this, truly, was one of those moments.

intro photo from the book Jordan Street, available in the iBookstore.

models: Stephanie Anne, Brooke Lynne

Nude and Chair – Polaroid

Tendu - Nude and Chair — Tendu – Nude and Chair

working in the studio near the end of our stay there, i’d found an old Polaroid 250 camera on eBay that i bought for $17 and started trying to use it with studio lights. the results were usually unpredictable, but often interesting. if i remember correctly, this was old, expired polaroid sepia film and i loved the response it had to the studio light and the tones of the final prints.

this scan of the original polaroid print is included in a section of polaroids in the book Jordan Street: Studio Nudes, 2008-2011 available now in the iBookstore.

model: Tendu

Keira – Talc

Going back to September 2009, this was one of the first times I did a properly rigged overhead shoot. I’d clamped my monstrous Mamiya RZ67 to an overhead support, shooting straight down on the model. When I told Keira that i was going to cover her in talc, she looked at me with a worried expression and said, “what’s that?!?” When I told her it was simply baby powder she smiled and said, “Oh, okay!” We both ended the shoot smelling fresh like a baby’s bottom!

Another shot from the book Jordan Street and available as a signed and numbered fine art print.

model: Keira Grant

Abstractions

Brooke - Abstract Figure — Brooke – Abstract Figure

Studies in solitude and stillness with Brooke. Scan from a 6×7 negative and available in the book Jordan Street and
as a fine art print.

model: Brooke