Created in my modest basement living room studio using a Canon 5D, Canon EF24-70mm f/2.8L lens, Alien Bees B800 strobe and red seamless background paper. The model is my lovely wife Sharon.
You can own a copy of this in print as this image is published in my book, available here: http://www.blurb.com.
See you tomorrow!
Back in 2007, I finally picked up a set of gels for my Alien Bees studio lights. I wanted to create more of a classic nude yet I wanted it toned. I set up a strobe to camera right and put an orange gel on it. It threw way too much light on the model without light modification. Ater weighing the option of using a snoot or a grid, I put a 30 degree honeycomb grid on the strobe, metered it to 1/60s and an aperture of f/11 and shot this image with my Canon 5D.
I think it turned out wonderful!
Until next time..
-Ray
Back in 2004, I was posting heavily on The New Nude, a site which features natural nudes; nudes which contain little if any makeup, in natural locations such as forests, waterfalls, streams and any other “natural” location.
Shortly after I joined the site, Eolake Stobblehouse published a book called “Natural Beauties,” which contained the best of the best of these natural nudes from Domai.com.
The photo above was our first attempt at creating a “natural nude.” It is very similar to the cover photo of Natural Beauties. This is not a coincidence. Sharon and I used to start off mimicking an existing work and then changing it up to make it our own.
If you can, pick up a copy of Natural Beauties. It is a beautiful book with very little text, just pretty nudes.
- Ray