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In the studio with Shelby
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Christi
3 12 2014I photographed my friend Dave’s younger sister, Christi, back in the 90s (during my romantic-vaseline-on-the-uv-filter days). I had some images scanned with ScanCafe recently and this was one of them. I love the painterly light on this one—I’m thinking I might need to turn this into a real painting.
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Teresa
3 12 2014I shot this of my friend Teresa when we were in college at Pan Am in Edinburg, Texas. I was definitely on the Renaissance-romantic-princess-fairytale-vaseline-on-the-UV-filter kick in those days. Oh, and I always had to fashion headpieces of flowers out of mom’s flower arrangements to complete the scene. Teresa was a beautiful subject for my lens!
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A very different Nicole
3 12 2014I photographed my friend Nicole several times many years ago (in fact, one photo of her ended up as one of two selected by American Photo magazine in their 2nd Annual Readers Photos Contest—I had two out of the 146 published!—in the early 90s. That photo had her in her “natural state,” with gorgeous Rapunzel-like hair (all hers) in a flowy golden gown. For this session several years later, I brought out my bag ‘o wigs and we decided to totally switch it up. I thought she looked like a mysterious French actress. I did a soft-focus technique with vaseline smeared on a UV filter and also upped the ISO of the film (slide days) to create the grainy look.
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In the studio: Elise
20 01 2014Elise is the youngest daughter of my friends James and Irma Williams. She is as equally sweet, funny, and smart as she is beautiful!
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Random re-post: Nicole
6 11 2013Originally posted 12.12.2009
One of my favorite portrait subjects—Nicole. 35mm slide scanned by ScanCafe.com
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In the studio: Marisa
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Marisa
17 07 2013I photographed Marisa a few days ago and we just finished converting one of our favorite images to b&w using one of my actions from Florabella. I like the warm tint to this particular action. More shots to come…
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Re-post: Portrait of Nicole
2 08 2012Originally posted 12.12.2009
One of my favorite portrait subjects—Nicole
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Vintage Laurie
20 07 2012While Laurie was in town to see my show and be photographed for the Hearing Loss Magazine, we also had a fun modeling session one night. For this vintage look, I used the Musette filter from the Florabella Luxe Collection, with a few tweaks. For the gown underneath her shrug, I wrapped her with this cool bubbly-texture throw that I bought at IKEA, of all places.
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Tags: Florabella Luxe Collection, glamour photography, Hearing Loss Magazine, Laurie Pullins, Nikkor 105mm micro, Nikon D300, Photoshop filters, portrait photography
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In the studio: Anna
13 08 2011Anna (as herself in photo #1 and playing with wigs in #2 and #3). I used my Spiderlite TD5 cool lights for this session.
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Margot
14 07 2011I was going through my archives to find stock photos for a client and found this photo of Margot that I had overlooked during my initial editing of the session in April 2010. I want to get her and her sister back into the studio for some shooting play time—they both take direction well and are very photogenic.
See more photos from that session in the links below:
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/margot/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/sisters/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/hannah/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/margot-again/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/this-ones-for-karen/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/and-finally/
https://cindydyer.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/karen/
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Holly
8 03 2011I shot this portrait of Holly with a Nikon D300, Nikkor 105mm micro lens, and a Nikon Speedlight SB-800 with a RayFlash ringlight attached.
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Portrait from the past: Teresa
5 01 2011I met Teresa in an art class in college. She modeled for me many times and despite no professional modeling experience, she was a great subject to photograph! I was studying old Hollywood glamour photos and was aiming to replicate that look during this session.
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Kristen in blue
31 12 2010Mamiya 645J medium format negative; very minimal digital retouching (yes, her skin was that flawless, lucky girl). I did her hair and makeup and the “shrug” is just a few yards of textured satin fabric!
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Mamiya 645J archives: Kristen
31 12 2010I shot this photo (original was in color; I converted to b&w digitally) of Kristen back in the 90s, using my Mamiya 645J medium format camera and Kodak VPS film. I worked with Kristen when I was doing freelance graphic design and photography work for the Visiting Nurse Association, but lost track of her a few years later. She was just as sweet, funny and bright as she was pretty—and she was the consummate model, even with no experience. If you’re out there, Kristen, give me a holler!
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Margot, b&w conversion
7 09 2010Earlier this summer, I posted the color original of this portrait of a friend’s daughter. This one is on my top ten list of favorite portraits I’ve shot recently. When I shot film, I shot mostly Ilford b&w and loved the results I got with portrait shoots. I converted this image using b&w actions from a Totally Rad Actions set. Which image do you prefer—color or b&w—and why?
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Lauren
28 08 2010Comments : Leave a Comment »
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Regina
2 05 2010Comments : 3 Comments »
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