Female Photography – Photographing the feminine form

It is only recently that I dipped a toe into the waters of artistic photography, and more recently I tried my hand at capturing the female body in photography. I hesitated to do so at least partly because I do not feel I had much to contribute to this genre. It is difficult to think of being the most photographed of the female form … sensual or otherwise. Nude in the woods in the form of a naked woman on motorcycles … it seems that everything has been done before, and yet as an artist, I always felt compelled to explore, shall we say, tasteful photography of female body.

It took twenty-seven years, but I finally began a series of photographic studies of the human body, and not only women but also men, that I feel offers something new. And in the process I found that the creation of such studies, even when they are not something totally new and different can also be rewarding work.

What interested me to begin a series of images I created lights of the city using very long exposures … usually in the range of seconds, while moving the camera. I was sitting at a cafe terrace in Vietnam later in the night with friends and crossfire of several exposures along lampposts across the avenue from where we were seated. The combination of flashing lights, neon bar along with the movement of my camera resulted in a sort of "liquid fireworks" feel. That night I was hooked on shooting city lights this way. As I started to develop a body of work, I was struck by the lyrical and sensual, even some of the images … and how some of them seemed to take the shape of the female body.

It was the sensual feel of some of these images of light that led me to decide to take on the human body. I decided to shoot some nude photographs (both men and women) and combine my photos with long exposure light, using Photoshop to create a series of images that explore combinations of colors, light, and nudes. In some cases I take the model poses that work with lights … and other times I'll start with the shooting and search lights that correspond to the laying … or that I can handle Photoshop to further strengthen photography model. In some cases, fires take the appearance of meridians and chakras … while in other cases the lights give a impression of movement and / or energy. Adding bright images can also add and enhance the sensuality, mystery and glamor the final image.

I combine images primarily using clipping paths to create a selection, tight accurate body, then add it as a new layer in the image of light. I can then double layers Re-arrange them, and use of masks layers to create the impression of packaging around the light and sometimes go through the human body. Can I use adjustment layers with their High-masks to add dimensionality to the agencies and / or add color, intensity or saturation in specific areas of composites. Hue and Saturation controls also allow my to intensify and / or change the colors of the streaks of light. Some images may be very single layers with three or four, while others become very complex. I had some of these images reach seventy layers!

It was while combining these forms that I also started taking the body naked, photographed in my studio, and Photoshop use, again, put the body in other environments … mainly Cloudscape. They have done a photo realistic, so that a casual examination would leave no one believing the nudes were actually shot in these environments. By firing the body in my studio, I can control lighting around curves and strengthen muscles. By stripping the corpses in cloudscape I can dramatize the sense of freedom, expansion and just plain beauty of photography.

Now, whenever I travel, I always look forward to creating more of my studies light long exposures. I created these images using lights of the city of Hanoi, Buenos Aires, Mumbai, New York. I long accustomed to enter the interesting shapes of clouds … and now I also visualize how they could work with the human body. When I am tired of my usual conceptually oriented projects stock photography gives me a "reward" … permission to play with the creation of new combinations of body juxtaposed and interwoven with images of light from my library of lights and / or clouds. Playing with these images restores my energy and fire of my creativity. It is a change of pace and renews my sense of exploration and instills in me the joy of creating beauty for beauty's sake!

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