Today’s Bacon | Cassie
Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
by Joe
If I tell you how this shot evolved, you will probably laugh at me. It goes something like this: as I walking my son to school, I noticed this stick in a neighbor’s yard. I immediately thought, “Hmm. I could use that stick.” I decided to pick it up on the way back home. After I dropped the boy at school, I decided to see if I could find anything in the charity shops that would go with …. a stick. This dress was hanging there, in my size, and cheap enough to buy with the change I’d grabbed on my way out the door. So. We have a stick and we have a dress and we have…absolutely nothing else. I let my mind wander on the bus back home and as so often happens, inspiration struck out of nowhere.
I was going for a civilized wildness with this shot. It took about 15 takes to get the look I was attempting to capture - the kind of look you might see on the face of a woman who has integrated herself into polite society but remains shrouded in a cloak of the wild wood that spawned her.
I shoot in natural light exclusively - in this case, it was the window the my left. My settings were f/2.8 and ISO200 with a Sigma 30mm 1.4 lens. I work with textures a lot, and there are several overlayed here to give the wall behind me some texture, and add to the overall organic feel of the image. This would be an easy PP technique to replicate as it only includes a basic sharpening, color balance, texture overlay, and vignette.
What caught my eye with this shot is the “dark” feel of it. The vignetting and texture overlay give it that grunge feel while the model has this eerie look about her.
Cassie has a great imagination with her work. Make sure to look at some of her other photos.
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