Sometime in the next month or so, the #corsetmonday series will be ending and I’m considering starting a new series featuring models wearing see-through lingerie and clothing. The reactions to my first previews were positive both on Instagram and here, so here’s another preview. If this is a feature you would like to see continued, please click the CONTACT button and let me know.
Today’s Post by Joe Farace
Lingerie is a class of women’s clothing that includes undergarments, sleepwear, and lightweight robes. The etymology of the word often implies that the garments are alluring and fashionable. Lingerie can be made of lightweight, stretchy, smooth, sheer or decorative fabrics such as silk, satin, Lycra, charmeuse, chiffon, lace or various synthetic fibers like polyester or nylon. See-through materials of various kinds continue to be available for a wide range of styles.
See-through clothing is any garment of clothing made with lace, mesh or sheer fabric allowing the wearer’s body or undergarments to be seen through the fabric. See-through or sheer fabric, particularly in skin tone colors giving the impression of exposed flesh. This is nothing new. See-through fabrics were fashionable in Europe during the eighteenth century. This use of see-through fabrics as a common element in designer clothing resulted in a “sheer fashion trend” that’s been prominent in fashion circles since 2008.
How I made this portrait: If only for privacy reasons, boudoir photography is usually shot in the studio but that is not a hard-and-fast rule. You can shoot boudoir or intimate portraiture on-location—even outdoors as environmental portraiture.
In the past I’ve preferred displaying images like this featured image in black and white to create what I convinced myself was a quietly, pensive look. More recently I prefer making and displaying these kinds of photographs in color, because I think color adds a natural and contemporary look to the portrait. My (unscientific) poll on the subject of black & white vs. color glamour images showed that 75% of respondents preferred the color version of what was shown to them over the monochrome one.
In this portrait, the formidable Pam Simpson shows what an amazingly versatile model she is. Lighting was from the (no longer available) fluorescent Westcott Spiderlite system. This image was made on location using one Westcott D5 light head in a softbox that was placed at camera right as can be seen in the above right setup shot. The portrait was made using a Panasonic Lumix GH4 and Lumix G Vario 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens (at 45mm) with an exposure of 1/50 sec at f/5.6 and ISO 640.
Special Note: With #corsetmonday coming to an end, I plan to replace it with a #seethrough series. To do that I’m looking for women interested in posing wearing see-through clothing or lingerie for this series. After signing a simple model release, they will receive their choice of a CD or flash drive containing all the approx 200 photographs we’ll make to take with her the day of the shoot. The model will also receive full rights to use the images however they like. If you or maybe somebody you know might be interested, please click CONTACT and let’s talk.
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