mjc925 Loc: SF Bay Area

Kinda a before and after of one of the first models I ever worked with, you know the one that if you pester long enough they agree to the shoot AND are free. Left about nine months pregnant and right about 2 months after birth. Spring of 1998, Tmax film, Canon 1n.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Stunning! I love it!

toxdoc42

Interesting images. Something's a bit odd to me, but, remember my background is medical. The anterior of after looks manipulated, or she really sucked in severely, the right buttock in the left image just seems odd.

Jim Tonne

Gorgeous pair of images ! Healthy-looking woman. One of my lasses was in the "to be a mom" situation but declined my suggestion that I follow her through the situation. I thought it woul be wonderful to follow a pregnancy. Sadly she declined.

- Jim Tonne

mjc925 Loc: SF Bay Area

This image was scanned and processed in 2007, so my memory may be a bit fuzzy but I did pull the negatives. Three things were manipulated for the final images you see. The "after shot was flipped horizontally so that it looked more symmetrical in the final composite. I cloned out a couple pubic hairs cause you know in 1998 women had pubic hairs but it sorta messed up the overall silhouette look. Final thing was it was a not great silhouette as I hadn't done many silhouettes at that time and my shooting space was pretty limited so in Photoshop I really compressed the highs and lows to get it close to almost completely black or white pixels. I am guessing that compression may have made a few transition areas a bit odd as the pixels went one way or the other. The before butt probably suffers from that as I didn't alter anything with that and it looks the same in the negative. Is she sucking in her stomach, what women doesn't in this situation, but she didn't really have to. Whatever you see that looks manipulated really isn't, just possible artifacts of making the silhouette. Two other things I discovered, the film for the after was actually Illford HP5+, and it was actually about 10 months after the birth, not 2-3 months, so that was my bad and just poor memory, I remember it differently than my notes say and at my age I believe the notes.

Ctrclckws

I wish I could lose that much of my belly, in 10 months, but it's been growing much longer than a pregnancy, so I suspect it would take much longer, even if i could get it to start shrinking.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Re timing of the after shot, she must not have been nursing.

Tdearing Loc: Rockport, TX

Very nicely done, clever.

mjc925 Loc: SF Bay Area

Yea, she tried to nurse the first few months, had some blocked ducting issues and could not deliver enough milk or pump enough. She supplemented for 2-3 months like 50-50 with formula and eventually weaned off breast milk completely as it was pretty painful for her chapped nipples and I much preferred when her nipples were not a sore spot.