I met Tori over a year ago the first time thanks to AD Series.  AD would come in town for the weekend to hang out with me and the kiddos.  But he did a lot of shooting while he was here too.  The day I first met Tori, I just assisted AD with his shoot with her.  I was pretty mesmerized by her presence both in front of the camera and during set up/tear down.  She is quick witted and funny as hell. Tori and I talked for months about shooting before we finally set a date.  She was busy with school, I was busy with kids.  But, we finally made it happen and am really looking forward to working with her again soon.  Can’t believe I’ve never written or shared her photos here before.

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About four weeks ago I received a message on Instagram from Lenoir saying she was interested in working with me.  We met up for a drink one evening and talked about some ideas and her motivation/reasoning for wanting to shoot together.  The conversation wandered from always wanting to be a model when she was in her early 20s, relationships, and her finding comfort in her body.  Our ideas meshed immediately and we set a date to shoot for July 21st.  The images after the jump are NSFW and are digital exposures processed to have a genuine film feel to them.

A quick side note…models and photographers, do not forget the power of Instagram.  I have booked more work in the past three months from Instagram than any other social media platform I use to promote my work. I will write more about my take on this later.

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Back in late December I had a random stranger reach out to me about helping give them photography pointers.  We chatted off and on for about a month and we talked technique and creativity.  The subject came up that I had all this darkroom equipment to set up and use.  I haven’t shot film in close to 20 years.  She presented the idea that I should only shoot and process my own film for a little while.  Eventually she won and I made the transition to shooting almost exclusively black and white film.  I chose to do that because it is so much easier and more forgiving to process black and white film at home.  Temperature doesn’t really matter so much.  But I still brought my digital camera along to shoots and continued to shoot non-analog images.  The problem I kept encountering when I was trying to process my digital images was how to not do a shitty black and white conversion, but instead make images that felt like film still….

The following images are NSFW and are from a very long time coming shoot this past January with an amazing glamour model, Shaun Fitzgerald.  When we finally got our schedules in line, I told her I refused to shoot her the way she has always been photographed.  Instead I want to shoot her like a fine art model (well, except for the photos using Juiceland provided attire).  These images after the jump are the end result of what we created together on my digital camera…

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“Get yourself in trouble. If you get yourself in trouble, you don’t have the answers. And if you don’t have the answers, your solution will more likely be personal because no one else’s solutions will seem appropriate. You’ll have to come up with your own.”
― Chuck Close

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