Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

I had known Meg way back in the day when I was just starting to work with models. Meg was always a fun and basically happy person who worked well with students as well as myself.

After years of going to collage she left to join the US Navy and I lost track of her.

Then one day I got a phone call from her at the school where we had worked together. She was back and going to collage working on a masters degree is business. She spoke about the old days and how she missed modeling. I had a rare opportunity the next week to shoot at a renovated warehouse with newly poured concrete floors that were covered with plastic as part of the curing process.

I explained the idea and Meg lite up, what costume then was her question. The idea was dance, modern dance which she has told me she had just begun taking, and I explained that I had just gotten a pair of full length culotte pants.

I should say, I did have studio flash gear and used it, but I wanted the movement in both clothing and in her body.

Meg from years before.

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Equus Loc: Puget Sound

nice series

Manglesphoto Loc: 70 miles south of St.Louis

Great set!!!

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Don

Carnac Loc: Las Vegas

Unfortunately all of the dance pictures have motion blur on the face. Motion blur on the hands and legs showing movement and dynamics works well, but the under lit pictures (and thus blurred face) are a miss for me.

If you want comments, you should number your posted pictures - much easier for the viewer.

Pictures 2, 8, and 9 are nicely caught action photos and are the best of the bunch.

I never understand why people post a group of photos that include poor quality (pictures 3 and 4 for example). Post just the best of the best (unless you are asking for help with a specific problem).

Nice idea, but technically flawed.

RogStrix Loc: UK

very Kate Bush...

riderxlx Loc: DFW area Texas

Very nice series Tim.
I disagree with the comment made about technically flawed because of motion blur. The motion blur to me is not a flaw, but it displays the movement of the ladies dancing and movement, where the motion is blurred to me, shows a fast traction of the hands of the feet. as compared to the rest of the body so to me, it helps me get an idea of the movement and motions. She is displaying and you happen to capture a split second of it. Also, the setting is quite. It’s quite nice because it presents only the model which she is very lovely for sure. I hope you have more pictures of her. A very good set.
Bruce

longmg Loc: South Shore, MA

To me, conveying movement through a slight blur is an artistic choice, not a quality issue. Very nice images of a very flexible lady.

Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

Like a few others, I do not mind the blur. In fact, if there were no blur of the arms and legs, these images would, to me, be very boring! So, KUDOS to you Timmers, these are a very nice set....

theaverlo Loc: Iowa

Great set!

Toby

She looks as young and beautiful in your latest photos as she did in your earlier ones. It would be interesting in seeing a similar nude pose from today for comparison. As I said she looks as good today as yesterday in the clothed photos.

JimG1 Loc: Waxahachie, TX

Wonderful job!

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Meg. I would estimate I have some 10 thousand images of Meg. From 35mm to 8X10 cameras and all points in between.

This image is on 4X5 inch Polaroid Type 59ER (ER= Extended Range) material. The unique quality of the formed image is by way of the merger of an old dirt cheap Kodak Box Camera lens, and no shutter. The lenses diaphragm was also discarded. This type of optic is extremely basic and offers certain qualities of a 'soft focus' nature. I coupled this lens to the vary flexible Linhof Karden Bi view camera so that I could explore certain optical effects that the simple and anastigmat design offers. The Karden Bi is a bout as close to a working 'optical bench' that is a working view camera.

As you view the image look to the lower part of the image where the different cloths are arranged. This is where the disintegration of both color and image structure exist.

Taken from the 'classical' definition of what a model incorporates, we get the term 'Clothes Horse" from the world of fashion. Clothing on a mannequin is one thing, but not much better than seeing an article of clothing on a wire hanger. Clothes MUST be worn to have any true value as an art object. The body in wearing clothing activates and reveals the purpose that is the art of the clothing.

The still photograph can and should speak to the cloth and how it is articulated by the body. Using still photography we have the potential for what is known as the 'tableau vivant'.

In photography, the potential for the tableau vivant can be powerful. Applying a true optical representation of the optic disintegration of the 'poor' quality optic that renders in the style of the soft focus image we are allowed to activate and educate the viewer in realms that are quite radical.

Oh I most surely know that I am leading the viewer and reader into regions that are not known to most of the photographic audience. True optical soft focus photography is and can be quite mysterious. One is offered an alternative to the notion of clarity of the world of APO optics and the desire for clarity and sharpness. Many would think and speak of the pinhole image, but that is not the realm of soft focus images. In fact the world of pinhole images is quite in the opposite and wrong direction.

The world of soft focus images is the gate way to an area of images that is quite the opposite to pinhole images. Soft focus optics and image structure is found in a vary little know optical realm tat bears the name pin speck images.

If you want to find the only published article on pin speck images you will need to look in a past copy of the Journal Scientific American, the period is the 1970's and the article will be found in the section referred to as The Armature Scientist.

To answer the question, be assured, I never publish or post anything here that is a failed image. Focus and clarity is in photography (to quote an old position in the sciences) 'the hobgoblin of fools'.

4X5 Polaroid Type 59ER, using a Kodak Box Camera anastigmat lens wide open on a Linhof Karden Bi camera.

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Rich2236 Loc: E. Hampstead, New Hampshire

Now you are talking some serious stuff, Timmers. When I attended "Art Center," in Los Angeles, (Waaaaay back when, LOL) I had an instructor whose name was Potts, who went into this subject or something very similar. I remember because he was so way out at the time. LOL, I didn't quite understand most of it then, and I surely don't understand most of it now, years later. As the saying goes: "Your a better man than I, Gunga Din!" Thanks, it did bring back VERY fond memories.

Timmers Loc: San Antonio Texas.

Rich, your welcome.
I know many here are just interested in the eye candy ad that is just fabulous! I will say that being a boy who is border line obsessed with women and especially necked ones, I make no apologies, not now not back when I was a kid. Typical American boy obsession. The difference is that I perused that obsession. (Now, not to put too fine an edge on it, but most of the women-girls I have found in my travels are totally into being obsessed upon!).

It is only a bit queer if you don't put some purpose to it all. As I explored this 'obsession' I discovered that there is much that can give value, may I say 'validity' to this investigation. Some of that has to do with what women like about being obsessed upon, even all that 'male gaze' (You know the naughty side of looking, and if you dream that women don't like this then you probably fit that bumper sticker that goes "If you think OSHA is a small town in Wisconsin, boy are you in trouble!). I found that most women enjoy the attention, I just seem to really like the ones who think panties are sometime optional.

Soft focus imaging is from our past in photography, yet it is some of the most interesting. Me, I'm really not much interested in razor sharp images. But once I entered the realm of optically soft images a whole world opened up for me. I truly enjoy the possibilities that this type of imaging offers.