Two Lights: Lindsey and her fabulous black eye

One of our fellow photographers, Lindsey, got a black eye while she was cheerleading the other day. Keeping with my body concept, I decided to be a little more playful with this one, looking at what can happen to the body when we use it. In Lindsey's case, a flying body part whacked her in the face and this beauty of a bruise is coming in as it heals. I used two soft-boxes to light up Lindsey, and I made the camera-left soft-box brighter so that the color in the bruise would be highlighted. She thinks it's horrific. I think it's kind of badass.

And one more for good measure. I just couldn't resist her ink:

One Light: Charlotte

For my one-light assignment I chose to continue my concept of the human body. I wanted to pick up bits and pieces of the body that we see, but we don't really see, if you know what I mean. I used a beauty dish to cast this wonderful glow on Charlotte, who "just came as I am" and still looked absolutely stunning.

Hot lights: yogatography

For this first assignment I wanted to get familiar with the studio without anyone around. I've seen yoga photography before, and it's always in a fancy studio or in exotic locations. It's beautiful, and maybe later in the semester I'll revisit yoga photography outside with studio lights. But there is something to be said about nothing but the human body. One of my goals for this semester is to explore the human body, so this is my first attempt. My goal is to showcase the lines, curves and shapes of the human body in a minimalist setting. 

These were done with one hot light with the barn doors wide open. My camera was set on the ground and the lens was tilted up about 4 inches. I was working with a remote (which is harder than it looks in poses, let me tell you), and I'm really pleased with the results.
Namaste.

Updog

Mountain, pretzel meditation

full side plank, right leg variation

Warrior two, inverted

Lunge, variation

Crow