Sometime in the next few months, the #corsetmonday series will be ending and I’ll be starting a new series that will feature models wearing see-through clothing. The reaction to my first preview so far was positive on Instagram and here. So a second preview is presented today. If you would like to see this series continue, 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, like what Scarlet Ana is wearing in the featured image. The use of the word is often motivated to imply that the garments are alluring, fashionable—or both. Lingerie can be made of lightweight, stretchy, smooth, sheer or decorative fabrics such as silk, satin, Lycra, charmeuse, chiffon, lace or even synthetic fibers like polyester or nylon.
See-through clothing is any garment of clothing that’s made with fabric that allows the wearer’s body or undergarments to be seen through that fabric. Sheer fabric, particularly in skin tone colors, is sometimes called illusion, as in ‘illusion bodice,” giving the impression of exposed flesh. See-through materials of various kinds continue to be available for a wide range of clothing styles.
How I made this portrait: Boudoir photography can be shot on-location or in the studio studio, if only for privacy reasons. This intimate portrait session with Scarlet Ana (Follow her in Instagram @scarlettkitty1) wearing a see-through lacy, white robe was made in my 11×15-foot home-based studio. See-through fabrics were even fashionable in Europe during the eighteenth century. These days the use of see-through fabrics in designer clothing resulted in a “sheer fashion trend” that’s been prominent in fashion circles since 2008.
The lighting setup for this portrait consisted of two Paul C Buff DigiBee DB800’s and one Alien Bee B800 monolight. The main DigiBee DB800 was placed at camera right and had a 37x27x12inch Plume Ltd. Wafer soft box attached. An Alien Bee B800 with an 16 x 30-inch Westcott Apollo Strip soft box was located at camera left. Another DigiBee DB800 with a Paul C Buff 18-OMNI Reflector attached, softened by a triple-layer Diffusion Sock, was located at camera left and placed neat the back corner of my home studio.
The camera used was a Panasonic Lumix GH4 with a Lumix G Vario 14-45mm f/3.5-5.6 lens (at 23mm) with an exposure of 1/125 sec at f/10 and ISO 200. The background was a hand painted Carbonite muslin from Silverlake Photo.
Postscript: In looking over the images I made of Scarlet Ana in this series, the above photograph is not the best one. I regretfully cannot show any of the other much better portraits of her that I made during this session. If I did, these posts would run afoul of the nanny software used by corporations and social media companies to block specific content. I soon hope to have access to a site where I can display some of those kinds of photographs. Right now, I’m talking with my Webmaster about creating my own. Details when I know more.
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