Catastrophe and the Cure. Nude portraits of women

Another shot from the Catastrophe and the Cure series. As usual, taken on Tmaxx 400 and home developed and printed.

The Jefferies' Stories series. Artistic nude on Kodak Tmaxx

Another pic for my project The Jefferies' Stories, an artistic nude series taken on Tmaxx 400 and Hasselblad 500cm

Catastrophe and the Cure series. A black and white artistic nude of Anna.

Catastrophe and the Cure. Shadows and Light. Artistic nude taken, as usual, with my Hassy on Tmaxx 400. Special thanks to the model Anna for this session, a great person to work with.

I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness

Taken on Tmaxx 400 and Zeiss Planar 80 on 500cm

The Jefferies' Stories. A black and white photography project on film

One more pic from my current project, The Jefferies' Stories.

L. B. Jefferies is the main character of Alfred Hitchcock´s film The Rear Window, a photographer who spies his neighbors with binoculars.

With this series I imagine what he would  photograph if he could access to the most intimate rooms of today's people.

Portrait of Sara, black and white nude photography

3 points of light were used for this portrait taken on Tmaxx 400 and Zeiss planar 80 with mu Hassy. 

How I did it. Black and white artistic nude photography. A light diagram

Artistic nude photography is one of my favourite kind of photography and something I really enjoy taking on black and white film. Here is a picture I made some time ago and the diagram of lights I used.

TMax400 - f8 - t1/125

This picture was taken on a Kodak TMax 400 with a Medium Format camera. The model was quite small as well as the space. in order to enhance her height I used a 50mm lens (which is an angular lens in MF) and positioned the camera really close to her right knee and played with perspective. The position of the legs and the right arm helped to my purpose, conferring to the whole image a certain dynamism.

As you can see in the diagram below, I used a three point light setting. The Key Light was a 1000w flash with square softbox on camera right, slightly tilted down at 1/2 power. I flagged it to avoid light spells on the background.

On the left of the camera I put a 500w flash also with softbox, the Fill light, at 1/4 of the power and more distant from the model than the Key light in order to fill up the shadows on the legs but at the same time to achieve the contrast I wanted. It was also flagged to prevent the light to fall on the background and more areas of the body other than the legs.

I placed the Background light behind the model, at 1/2 the power and with a snoot, which created   the circle of light at her back.

I used a yellow filter Y8 to get a brighter skin tone and shot at f8 and t1/125.

I like film grain very much and normally I want them to gain presence in the print, so control it with agitation during the development of the negative.

The image was then scanned and went trough Photoshop only to place the watermark and to reduce it to web size.

Hope you enjoyed this post, now it's time to practise!