Brianna on the front porch

[garysamson]

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A portrait of Brianna from this summer. We are on our tenth year of an extended portrait collaboration. Leica SL2s and Voigtlander 75mm f1.5

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[fotografr]

Could you tell 10 years ago that she would become such a beautiful young woman? 

[Almizilero]

Lovely portrait! If anything, I'd try cropping it above the dressing gown. All the other colours are so soft and then there's this strong blue and red of the gown.

[garysamson]

2 hours ago, fotografr said:

Could you tell 10 years ago that she would become such a beautiful young woman? 

Brianna was 19 years old when I started photographing her and she was stunning then too!

[garysamson]

32 minutes ago, Almizilero said:

Lovely portrait! If anything, I'd try cropping it above the dressing gown. All the other colours are so soft and then there's this strong blue and red of the gown.

Thanks for your suggestion. I did not want to have Brianna appear to be posing nude in this image so I did not consider cropping this image. Brianna is extremely comfortable posing nude however, I think I have posed previous nude images of her in the People Forum.

[Almizilero]

vor 8 Minuten schrieb garysamson:

Thanks for your suggestion. I did not want to have Brianna appear to be posing nude in this image so I did not consider cropping this image. Brianna is extremely comfortable posing nude however, I think I have posed previous nude images of her in the People Forum.

Ah, I understand. After looking at it for a while, I'm not even sure if cutting away the gown wouldn't make the picture boring. It's a great and unexpected contrast to the rest of the image. It's just at the first look that the eyes get drawn away from the face by the strong blue colour in the lower part of the image.

I had a look at your other images with her, it's an interesting way to travel back in time I hope you two keep at it, this will be even more amazing once you've covered 20/30 or more years You might even want to try and redo old poses. 

[stuny]

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Quite lovely

[garysamson]

17 hours ago, Almizilero said:

Ah, I understand. After looking at it for a while, I'm not even sure if cutting away the gown wouldn't make the picture boring. It's a great and unexpected contrast to the rest of the image. It's just at the first look that the eyes get drawn away from the face by the strong blue colour in the lower part of the image.

I had a look at your other images with her, it's an interesting way to travel back in time I hope you two keep at it, this will be even more amazing once you've covered 20/30 or more years You might even want to try and redo old poses. 

Again, thank you for your thoughts on our work together. I have been photographing Brianna primarily with a 4x5 view camera and black & white film, sometimes with an 8x10, but when we want to be more spontaneous I will use the SL2s or the M10. I have on occasion redone previous poses and I am pleased you made that suggestion!