Learning & Researching

In order to get the costumes and poses and lighting just so, I started to find out what I could about the photographs I was copying. The backs of the cards gave a clipped biography of the woman I was recreating, giving me leads of where to look. I scoured eBay for theatre programmes, publicity … Continue reading Learning & Researching →

Learning to Pose

And I keep going—over the 2 years of the course. I alternate between shoots and processing and printing the images. Here's another selection from my first semester using the digital back of the Mamiya camera. I was learning how to get my look right, how to copy a pose, as well as the lighting. As … Continue reading Learning to Pose →