I’ve always seen this blog as a bit of a journey and after pondering for the last week I’m making a minor course correction. In the past I’ve posted a number of photos from a shoot together. Sometimes I did this with commentary and other times I left the photos stand alone. I preferred posting with some thoughts about the image and think that I’m going to try to do that more starting in this entry. I’m also going to move away from posting as many images and concentrate more on a set of a few chosen images.
I’m only posting one more image for now from that shoot with Melissa back in July that I call Last Night.
Really it’s a combination of five images combined to tell a story. Sometimes you go into a shoot with the specific idea you want to capture, but not in this case. This was more experimental where Melissa and I started shooting with her in lingerie on a futon and I just let the idea evolve during the shoot. Melissa is great to work with like this as she brings a lot of experience and her own ideas. This image was a result of following those idea through. In fact one of the images making the final photo (the bottom right image) was shot the day before in a completely unrelated context, but I think it makes the result better. With that final image, the other four take an entirely different meaning and it elevates it above a standard erotic image.
I also like how much is implied even though she is alone and without showing anything explicit. I much prefer to imply sexuality instead of being blatant with it and I think that this accomplishes that well.