Today’s Post by Joe Farace
If you don’t feel comfortable in a plunging sweater, skin-tight jeans and killer heels, go home and change.—Ines de La Fressange
See-through clothing describes any garment that’s made with lace, mesh or sheer fabric allowing the wearer’s body or undergarments to be seen through its fabric. See-through or sheer fabric, particularly in skin tone colors, is sometimes called illusion, as in “illusion bodice,” because it may give the impression of exposed flesh.
This See-through concept is not new. Different kinds of see-through fabrics were fashionable in Europe during the eighteenth century and continue to be available for a wide range of clothing styles. This use of see-through fabrics as a common element in designer clothing resulted in the “sheer fashion trend” that’s been prominent in fashion circles since 2008.
Models: Some of the models who appear in this series may have never been featured before or they may be under represented depending on how many shoots that I was able to do with them. The series continues today with a portrait of Zoe, who has appeared in the blog several times, include one of the early #corsetmonday posts.
Zoe is a six foot tall blonde—I seem to have an affinity for photographing tall models—who is an ecdysiast. (I’ll let you look that up.) She wanted me to make a series of portraits for promotional purposes for her website that was different from some of the other more sexy images we created during our shoots. So instead of her wearing lingerie, as in the case some previous posts, she’s wearing see through clothing, in this case a sweater.
During the time I worked with Zoe, I was lucky enough to photograph her three different times and this image was made during our second shoot together, when she was still a blonde. It was made in my former home’s kitchen that has a North-facing bay window that provided beautiful natural life, which is why you see so many similar images from that pre-Daisy Hill time. The camera used was a Canon D60—not a 60D—with an EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM lens (at 28mm.) That lens has been discontinued but you can still pick up used copies from Amazon the last time I checked. The available light exposure (no reflectors were used) was 1/80 sec at f/5.6 and ISO 400 with a plus one-thirds stop exposure compensation.
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