Natasha Presents: The Shining - a photo on Flickriver

            This was her idea, "let's do like The Shining", only originally it was both her and Tuffy, standing side by side.  But after seeing that first shot, I realized it'd work better with just Tash by herself, which was, in my mind, awkward, like I was firing Tuffy from this particular shot.  

It's a delicate thing, sometimes, when you're working with two models at once, you don't want to favor one over the other, you want them both to get your attention, yet there are some shots that favor one person over the other, and it's a bit like spinning plates, you've got to keep each one going, don't want any of them to lose momentum.  

And so, for this shot, Tash's skin being almost translucent was perfect for this shot, whereas Tuffy's darker skin wouldn't have meshed with the pink background as well. But it was hard to articulate that at the time, so I just made sure I took some Tuffy Only shots soon afterwards.  

Which turned out aces.

Oh, also, as you may or may not have noticed over the past year or so I've had this stream, I am utter shit at correctly framing my shots.  Blame parallax, blame that old piece of shrapnel in my eye, acquired while saving my buddies in Vietnam, blame the shakes from not doing heroin in several minutes, but I am almost completely incapable of getting a shot perfectly symmetrical, try as I may.  Hopefully, when my dirty meat hands are replaced with smooth pretty robot hands, this problem will be solved.

Robot fingers crossed.

Taken on: April 24, 2007

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