Category Archives: Fine Art

#2 – Butterfly Back

This image is on my Photographer and Model Business cards, and it is my print on the wall of my studio. (There are 4 of us and we each have one 16×20 on the wall).

The image is actually a little taller than this and here is quite a bit more buttock, but I kind of like it cropped like this. The small of the back hits the rule of thirds better.

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Milk, Tattoos and Blue

This is one of my favorite images from the shoot because of the three elements I used in the title. I love the color.

When I bought the pool I was a little worried the blue would be a problem. Anytime you introduce a color into an image, you find the image itself is changed and other colors have to work with it. In this case, everything seemed to work out as there was a lot of blue in her body art.

Blue

Model: Alica

The Milk Shoot Begins

We started off trying to be worksafe, but most of the images are nude.

I don’t remember exactly where the idea for this shoot came from. Like most awesome ideas I’m sure there was more than one source and they were brought together.

I first heard of Alicia because she applied to be a model for our studio at one of our casting calls. Everyone said she was my kind of model, because of all the body art.

Then I decided it would work even better if she were in a white liquid like milk.

Here’s the first image from the shoot.

Milk and bikini

On A Fallen Roof – Roxy Vandiver

I was driving down near the studio, which is in downtown Houston, and saw this opening in an abandoned building. Looking into the dark interior I realized Hurricane Ike had given me a gift. Part of the building’s roof had collapsed, and there was this great light on that part, paired with the darkness of the rest of the building.

I did go in by myself and check the rest of the roof, and I stood on the part I’d was going to ask my model to stand on. Roxy was trouper and we snuck in past the spray painted No Trespassing sign for a few shots with the violin.

Model: Roxy Vandiver
MUA: Janet Tillman

Roxy Vandiver on a fallen roof playing the violin
Roxy Vandriver on a fallen roof playing the violin