Whenever a SG daily pic set makes me bite my knuckles and pound the desk top I feel like I should tell everybody. So my heart, for today anyway, belongs to Bee and Sawa. Wowser. I know that I read to many hopeless love stories because, amongst other things, I bite my knuckles and pound the tables but whatever, let's get right down to the nitty gritty of the photo set.
I am a huge fans of creative use of colors for a back drop. When a photo set takes place outside or in a living room it is just too much going on, my eyes get pulled away from the punctum and I can't concentrate on the set because I am looking at the open farm gate or the guitar that is tilting in its stand. For some photographers that might be intentional... but for some it doesn't feel intentional. I am one of those guys who wants to beaten over the head with intention (but you can do it subtly too.) But I am losing the plot.
So in Bee's set, Free they do something that is really cool. Pulse does it too which is why I would watch her photograph a phone book. They make everything shades of red. The back drop is brick, the sheets are that rose color that guest rooms all across the southwest are littered with even the art on the wall incorporates red. Which is fantastic because it draws out the color of Bee's hair (which is breath taking) and it also makes the skin tone that much more contrasting. What it does is draws me back to how radiant the model is; and she is indeed radiant.
The other thing that I love about Sawa's shoot is the choice to frame Bee in between the art on the walls. Now... maybe I am over intellectualizing this, I probably am, but what it does for me is to pull the Art out of the photo set. I mean, come on, that's fucking brilliant. Bee becomes like the art work she is shot between. I love it.
This is tied with Hezza for my favorite shoot in the paltry month I have been active and I am really bad about sifting through the past, so I haven't seen that many but this is one of the ages.
Something that I wish SG would incorporate into their favorite section is favorite sets and favorite photographers. Maybe later, huh?
What I am reading: Today, regrettably, I am reading Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich
I am listening to: The Bird and the Bee's EP called "Too Many Hearts"
I am a huge fans of creative use of colors for a back drop. When a photo set takes place outside or in a living room it is just too much going on, my eyes get pulled away from the punctum and I can't concentrate on the set because I am looking at the open farm gate or the guitar that is tilting in its stand. For some photographers that might be intentional... but for some it doesn't feel intentional. I am one of those guys who wants to beaten over the head with intention (but you can do it subtly too.) But I am losing the plot.
So in Bee's set, Free they do something that is really cool. Pulse does it too which is why I would watch her photograph a phone book. They make everything shades of red. The back drop is brick, the sheets are that rose color that guest rooms all across the southwest are littered with even the art on the wall incorporates red. Which is fantastic because it draws out the color of Bee's hair (which is breath taking) and it also makes the skin tone that much more contrasting. What it does is draws me back to how radiant the model is; and she is indeed radiant.
The other thing that I love about Sawa's shoot is the choice to frame Bee in between the art on the walls. Now... maybe I am over intellectualizing this, I probably am, but what it does for me is to pull the Art out of the photo set. I mean, come on, that's fucking brilliant. Bee becomes like the art work she is shot between. I love it.
This is tied with Hezza for my favorite shoot in the paltry month I have been active and I am really bad about sifting through the past, so I haven't seen that many but this is one of the ages.
Something that I wish SG would incorporate into their favorite section is favorite sets and favorite photographers. Maybe later, huh?
What I am reading: Today, regrettably, I am reading Fiction Writer's Workshop by Josip Novakovich
I am listening to: The Bird and the Bee's EP called "Too Many Hearts"