Cindy 1974

 

This year was a productive year for studio work especially considering the pandemic. I feared it would wash out the entire year and there were lot of models who would normally work with me who decided to take a pass on this year. In the end I worked with 19 people at the Tyson studio. Some of the larger group shoots that I had wanted to do, like the "muses" shoot or the Three Graces just were not practical to do in an era of social isolation.

I've taken to going back to look at older works in film mad scan some of it, this from my undergraduate days at URI. Cindy was someone who very kindly modeled for a very green young photographer. Taken with my old Nikon F2 and a 20mm lens. The film was scanned on my Epson V700 scanner.

Last studio shoot of 2020

 

I had really given up any notion that I was going to be doing anymore work in the studio this year. My dear friend Susan visited STL on her way to Louisiana and offered to pose for me again. We had done a much more extensive shoot in June together and his session was limited to the "winter studio" as the main studio was just too cold, even with the heaters running. Susan is a great model, poised and self confident and has a great camera presence. I always manage to make interesting work of her and first photographed her in 2005, 15 years ago!

These are all shot with my D850 Nikon in the one bay winter studio at Tyson.