Way back in the early days of this site, I needed some way of subdividing the “People” galleries and (albeit arbitrarily) split them between “Studio” and “Location.” Problem is that they’re both getting full (each new gallery I post means one has to be taken down) and most shoots I do start in the studio and then move on to location. Now I need a new catagorization system and am lost for good ideas. Hair/eye color? Height? Number of syllables in name? I’m open to suggestions.
Anyway, to illustrate my point, here are two shoots I did in the studio and on location. The first is Lisa, a globetrotting spirit with laughing eyes and the second is Carole, an extremely talented flamenco dancer. Both ended up in “Studio.”
If you’d like to pick up some tips on how I take pictures on location, you can now buy a book on outdoor lighting with thirteen full pages devoted to my photography. It’s called “Outdoor Lighting: Fashion and Glamour” and amongst other things devotes a two page spread on my hips project.
The San Francisco General Hospital commissioned me to hang eight prints of children in the Pediatric Clinic. They’re the biggest prints I’ve done – 20″x30″ – and I’m glad I always use the best lenses and finest grain film so they stand up to that kind of enlargement. Unfortunately, you have to be a sick child or the parent of one to see them . . .