Well, I personally think it's about time that we revisit the early days of photography. The effects of the hyper-real, super sharp photos have finally left me very very distraught. f.64 would be rolling in their respective graves, but photo-secession is back.
I started this project well over a year ago but never really understood WHY I had. Nor did I understand exactly what I was doing photographically and esthetically, but I think that after a year I've finally figured out my goals as a photographer.
To me, photography should mimic the art world yet have it's own dynamics. The irony is that a good painting strives for realism, where as in my photos I'm striving for a painterly quality.
I've had a photographic crush on Anne Brigman's work for now about a year, ever since I was first introduced to her. In my recent research I've found that she was part of a movement called pictorilism and belonged to a group of mostly east coast photographers who called themselves photo-secessionists.
It seems as if I fall in line with their way of thinking quite well indeed. And that brings us back to my most recent photo shoot. All in all it was a very decent shoot, but I'm drawn to a few shots about mid way through that I took of the model and to some degree could care less about the rest of the day's shooting. A year ago i started the nude in the field but out of focus series and about 6 months ago or less I started the vintage nude series though never really shoot anything for it. Yesterday I think I finally figured it out by blending the two together...
Aside from some weathering and vintage effects that I've custom built based off of a HUGE library of vintage images I've downloaded from the internet the photo is pretty darn close to as shot. I used the grasses in the foreground as the focal point and left the model in the back softly out of focus. The green tone was made by me using my reference library to design a custom curve file to do the conversion; I have about half a dozen different versions with different colors and tonalities.
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