Variation 1 of 13 -- Feetish
By the light of upstairs twin glass doors onto a bedroom balcony, a woman’s feet, with bevelled glass oval mirror, a Persian artisanal silk rug from Qum, and a Persian tribal woollen bag made into a cushion.
A variant, Underneath the Arches, has been added to my photostream, showing some setting details better.)
The camera was focused on the lady’s feet. Since her virtual soles were twice as far away from her real soles as was the rug, and the virtual ceiling cornice further away still, the mirror forms a ‘tunnel’ of increasing bokeh, giving an illusion of depth through the floor. It is quite hard for the eyes not to try to switch focus and explore within that space...
I enjoy photographing people indoors by an expanse of even light from windows or doors. This gives a similar distribution of illumination to that of the classical studio portrait set up, but with a subtler Chiaroscuro. In this case the key light came from the north (in the southern hemisphere), but it was on a grey afternoon. The light's gentle modelling, particularly of the sitter's toes, brings out the personality of these feet, which I know better than the back of my own hands. (The mirror's view is against most of the light, but with just enough side-light to reveal one arch. The variant does this better.)
For the sake of the group 'Poetry and Photographs, not just photographs'...
Two neat rows
Of sweet little toes.
My love arose,
Do you suppose,
On knowing those,
Relieved of hose?
😬
First session with new camera, Canon PowerShot G5X II
(Haven't learned all I need to know about it yet.)
Variation 1 of 13 -- Feetish
By the light of upstairs twin glass doors onto a bedroom balcony, a woman’s feet, with bevelled glass oval mirror, a Persian artisanal silk rug from Qum, and a Persian tribal woollen bag made into a cushion.
A variant, Underneath the Arches, has been added to my photostream, showing some setting details better.)
The camera was focused on the lady’s feet. Since her virtual soles were twice as far away from her real soles as was the rug, and the virtual ceiling cornice further away still, the mirror forms a ‘tunnel’ of increasing bokeh, giving an illusion of depth through the floor. It is quite hard for the eyes not to try to switch focus and explore within that space...
I enjoy photographing people indoors by an expanse of even light from windows or doors. This gives a similar distribution of illumination to that of the classical studio portrait set up, but with a subtler Chiaroscuro. In this case the key light came from the north (in the southern hemisphere), but it was on a grey afternoon. The light's gentle modelling, particularly of the sitter's toes, brings out the personality of these feet, which I know better than the back of my own hands. (The mirror's view is against most of the light, but with just enough side-light to reveal one arch. The variant does this better.)
For the sake of the group 'Poetry and Photographs, not just photographs'...
Two neat rows
Of sweet little toes.
My love arose,
Do you suppose,
On knowing those,
Relieved of hose?
😬
First session with new camera, Canon PowerShot G5X II
(Haven't learned all I need to know about it yet.)