Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

In post for Day 35 there was some movement but more than that a one time image session with Katrina on her way to a new job in Cali as an attorney with Virgin Records. Also, her ex-husband Glenn was told that he was also doing photography. So the stage is set for oe of the best things that has ever happened to me and the studio.

Glenn was suppose to be using the studio at Mission Road to do some nude images of a new model. The model had never done figure work before and was not married. She worked at a job and just wanted to do figure images for the fun of it, to do this for her and experience this. The woman arrived and Glenn had been speaking to her for a short while.

Glenn separated from her and came and found me at the other end of the building. He wanted ne to work with her and that he had made a big mistake, he didn't want to work with some bodies silly house wife and could I help him out because he just did not want to waste his time with another sill photo session with some woman who wanted to do a photo session nude.

So Glenn left and I was there with this late 20's woman. She seemed sharp and right out of her mouth came "Glenn doesn't want to work with me does he?" Typical submissive but sharp insight to what was going on. Honesty is the best position, so I told her she at pegged the situation perfectly. That he had decided that she was some house wife who wanted to be naughty for herself or a boyfriend. Either way his was the perception of what is called a GWC (Guy with Camera) and that he is just like guys who are even more lazy and go to strip clubs to ogle beautiful women.

We talked a while and then agreed that we would do the session.

So we did her first nude shoot and she turned out to be a natural. I got her e-mail address and that evening I e-mailed her half a dozen images of her post processed.

As she was getting ready to leave I asked her about work and how she came to be off that day. Well the normal chit chat when she told me she needed to wash her car. We were out the front and there in front was a red clown car! BMW was now making the old style English Mini and I ran over to it and asked her how she kept the clowns out of her car? She looked perplexed so I explained that in Europe the clowns were totally different from those in American circuses. Children (with parents) were seated in a certain location close to the certain area of the ring. An Austin Mini would drive in ad circle the ring of the circus belching colored smoke and the car would die right in front of the cluster of children. Then the clowns would jump out and climb all over the car, even through the sun roof. At the opposite side of the car, clowns would go into the car and come climbing out the kid side of the car until you had dozens of clowns every were! Clowns were made up of all the troop, even and especially the children of the troop. The gaiety of the whole thing was beyond understanding!

So she had a clown car! What she didn't have was a place to wash it, she lived in an apartment. As we spoke she told me how much she loved water and being nude.

That's when I got the idea, why not come over and we would bring the car into the court yard and she could wash her car, nude, and have fun with it, after all it was a Clown Car!

"Can you take pictures of me nude washing the car?"

I asked her if the Pope was Catholic or did bears shit in the woods.

So from the first session wit VADA in the studio.

P.S. She decided to wear the short black wig, but the big thing were the stripper shoes, elevated and extremely sexy. She had been to strip clubs and always wanted to wear a pair (this is so typical of women, I want to roll play stripper but I won't buy the shoes). Women live through shoes, at least the nude modeling sort. She had trouble walking in them at first but got a little better towards the end. I asked her if she wanted to take them home to practice I them. She wasn't sure so I said if you want to do figure modeling you need to master bad girl shoes and I told her men called them 'bend me over and f*** me shoes!" She loved that but she didn't want to have my shoes in case I had another girl to model and no shoes. So I showed her the stacks of shoes I keep and she saw a pair of open toed ones she really liked. Women get this look on their face when they see things that they "Will totally die for!" to have. I call it the crow look. I told her to take the stripper shoes and practice with them but she needed to wear the other pair out on a date with a dreamy guy she liked.

To effectively work with women you need to learn the language of women, he is not 'a hot guy' girls are hot, boys they like are 'dreamy', and women speak with their shoes.

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Wow! Image #1 is stunning. She has a wonderful "Come Hither" expression, and her gaze goes right to your brain. Well posed, well lit, sir!

PS - Both images are outstanding. I'm just struck more by image #1.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

This is mostly her modeling, I just set up the lighting quickly and created a soft flat surface for her to recline on. With this set up I was most interested by the lower torso, the legs in particular. The compression of deep space as her legs ran out into infinity was the effect that countered the frontal mass of the head and shoulders.

The image improved as I shifted the camera to the right slightly and angled it back in a small amount. It is both flat and elongated.

The second image in this set balanced the entire structure of this combined effect to get the best and balanced image that worked. Then that captivating smile that exuded a type of naughty appearance. I did not do this or direct her to this, it reflects her balanced personality of both submissive and desire for the viewers attention. Yes, I had given her some raw information about the effect of looking almost at the center of the lens as opposed to not looking at the center of the lens (confrontational look). She is a natural in that brains is in control of the beauty, but be certain VADA from the first images made of her, she is in the driver seat. Beauity and brains will always create powerful images when motivated.

This is what one gets when the woman is extremely comfortable in her own skin!

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JohnFrim Loc: Somewhere in the Great White North.

Why the long lead-in to washing a car in the nude, and then you post pics of Vada?

Waiting for the clown car...

BTW, the last one of Vada is the best! Great expression.

Rab-Eye Loc: Indiana

Very nice work here.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

"The last one"? I beg to differ with you, the first and last of the three are weak compared to the middle image. The use of space and the use of elongated perspective joining the toes to torso and the frontal up turn of a square of flesh is well seen.

Exploring after putting in a basic pose with a figure model is best done by small movements of position until you get all the elements of the image constructed.

This is shown in this set of three where Vada has turned over and I have floated the camera up higher taking more of what some like to call more of a 'birds eye view'.

Moving the arms and hands around make for different expressive actions.

The lighting is a 5 foot Octagon light directly over head, mounted on a heavy boom. The Octagon has the milk crate rigid to control spill on the floor. VADA is on a standard folding table, cushioned sponge mattress with heavy matt black canvas on top of the cushion. The cushion is NOT deep so that the body does not sink into the padding.

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Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Rab, another fun change as she rolled over!

I think this image needs explanation. This is not a great pose nor even one that would end up in a portfolio of a photographer, BUT it is excellent for a model's portfolio. Yet we rarely see this type of didactic figure model's portfolio.

The pose is easily done for almost any average sixed busted woman. The direction is easy and women with 'normal' or large boobs knows this. When putting on a bra, the woman bends at the waste and leans forward letting her boobs tilts forward and out just away from her body. She then scoops up the boobs and captures them in the cups of the bra.

This is how you direct the model to get into this pose, while say that you want her to support her weight on her elbow and upper arm. Then direct her to bring the lower arm up and almost in line with a parallel alignment with her shoulders, still a bit out in front more, the hand is straight and breaks at the wrist, fingers togeather but comfortably relaxed. This is NOT difficult to hold for a short while. Chin up a little, head is never straight but cocked as you see here because it looks natural.

The other arm come out from the torso and the hand of that arm goes over a bit of distance to the first posed hand and is touching a bit but resting and curving over the lower first hand.

The rear leg is of little consequence. In the Boudoir styling, that rear leg is best hidden partially with the bed linen, preferably dark, another great trick is to have the model in stockings to suppress interest in that rear leg; but the model is not an amputee, so organize the view to not imply this idea.

Now this is critical, that leg that is half on and half off must not show with weight deforming the leg muscles. Your advantage is the cloth that can benefit the weight/pressure by concealing the leg in a minor fashion. Best to have the knee show and the weight flesh contact just above the knee. The leg that dangles should be sweeping back, this gives the impression that she is rising, she is in motion. The dark shoe helps to blend the foot into the darkness.

Finally, what have I left out? Two critical items, one at the start and one of the last points. Having the boobs resting in this pose will state that her boobs are firm and that they are real and no augmented (implants). BUT, you got to know basic figure modeling anatomy. One boob will be firmer that the other, more rounded. The one that is a bit weaker in it's firmness is the one you want to favor for the camera. It is the one that points straight down, the one that is aligned with the supporting arm. In this case it is the one to the left. You want the 'stronger' more round boob to hold it's shape better.

Were almost there and now to the last point. Take this to the bank. It applies to just about any modern portrait or even a snap shoot. Find that center mark or center circle in your camera view finder, yes go look in your camera, and there it is! That center spot needs to be anchored on the head, and not any ol' place on the head but it needs to be just under the nose and best no lower than the upper lip.

Let me be blatant here. A modern portrait needs the optical center just below the nose and on the lips, PERIOD. Any instruction or discussion of perspective in the mono lens uses age is based on where you place the OPTICAL CENTER of the lens. Begin to organize ALL you visualization with total attention to placing the optical center. Look at VADA's face, it is A FACE. This is modern portraiture, plane and simple. Old portraiture followed the styling of the 'bust'. The images created for sculpture where the head rested on a neck and went down to a small bit of shoulder with no arms. This is A BUST. Up and through WW Two portraits were bust style renderings. The new world of fashion came out after that war and the fashion industry took off. There was a radical shift to the individual and personal/individualism. This was driven forward by the fashion world where personal image was everything.

The portrait went from the bust to the face. If you place the optical center on the chin you join the head to the body. For a mug shot you have the front on shot and then the profile. The camera is lowered and look up so that the head and shoulders are joined. In the portrait of today we are not interested in the whole man, we are wanting to look at the face, the face is everything.

So a modern figure image is still about persona, personality, essentially it is about The Face!

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Los-Angeles-Shooter Loc: Los Angeles

Great pics and delightful story

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Thanks for the input, I really like hearing from you and seeing what you are doing.

Fotoartist Loc: Detroit, Michigan

Last pic is my favorite.

Jwshelton Loc: Denver,CO

Love the pics; love the story .

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Some more fun from the second shoot!

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