Zinn
Friday, April 17th, 2009 | Photography | No Comments
I’ve been spending some time lately reviewing the images that I’ve made over the past few years and felt it was time to credit the wonderful models with whom I’ve been fortunate enough to collaborate. I use the word collaborate because I truly believe that’s what it is and it’s how I approach my work.
Intimate Portrait
It’s time to credit the models so I’m going to post a series of features on them. I won’t bore you with a lot of verbiage, I’ll allow their incredible artistry speak for itself.
I’ve worked with Zinn a number of times now and the results have been terrific every time. She’s a total professional seriously dedicated to creating wonderful art and a pleasure to work with. She is an incredible talent.
More of Zinn’s work can be seen on Model Mayhem or on her web site.
Enjoy…..
Across the Light
The Couch
The Pose
Window Light
Intimate Portrait
Intimate Portrait
Window Light
Triangles
Intimate Portrait
Intimate Portrait
perfection
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 | Life, Photography | No Comments
It seems that many chase perfection or call themselves perfectionists. I don’t believe that any person is actually a perfectionist. I believe it to be a mask covering some other personal issue or issues. How can perfection be defined anyway? Everyone sees it differently. I’m sitting here this evening processing images from a recent shoot and this one really touched me.
Stephanie Anne - Speak to me
It occurred to me that if perfection exists it truly exists in the human form. While the human body is far from most people’s definition of perfection. It is perhaps the most perfect thing that we on this planet know of. I take photographs of people, mostly in the nude and mostly female and I am constantly amazed by what us humans are capable of. I believe that the depths of our capabilities reach far beyond what most of us can even comprehend.
feature on Universe d’Artistes
Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | Life, Photography | No Comments
I am very pleased to have my work featured on Univers d’Artistes which is a wonderful blog dedicated to fine art nude photography. As an artist I experience many highs and lows in my work and this feature comes at a perfect time for me.
I would be amiss not to mention all of the wonderful models that I’ve worked with. Their contributions are a huge pert of the work and they deserve mention and tremendous credit. They all bring so much to the art making process.
Entwined - second printing
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments
I would like to thank everyone who has supported the book and my work on “Entwined”. It has been and continues to be an extremely exciting and rewarding project.
Entwined
I’m very pleased to announce that the first printing is completely sold out and a second printing has been completed and available for purchase. Please click here to purchase through PayPal. I’m offering an 8×10 fine art print of any image in the book with your purchase until the end of May.
I’m also working on my second book, no details yet as I’m in the early stages and not really ready to talk about it.
~Bill
cover image
Friday, February 6th, 2009 | Life, Photography | No Comments
In the summer of 2006 I attended a workshop at The Maine Photographic Workshops led by Joyce Tenneson. The title of the workshop was “Intimate Portraits”. We had a full week of total emersion in the learning and creative process. We worked with a number of models during the week; male, female nude and clothed. One of the topics that Joyce covered is the concept of cover images. Just what is a cover image you ask? I can only say that you’ll know it when you see it. Joyce has published a number of books over the years and the cover of nay book is critical to its success. It’s the first thing that people see and if it doesn’t grab them it’s likely they will not even look inside the book. It may sound like a cliche but the cover in many cases sells the book.
As we reviewed our work each day we asked ourselves if it’s a cover image. I made no cover images that week but workshops are more about what you learn and take with you and how that improves and expands your work. Since that week I’ve made only a few images that I would consider cover images. One is actually on the cover of my first book, “Entwined”.
I don’t shoot specifically with the intent of creating a cover image. As an artist I like to engage the people I photograph creating a collaborative effort and sometimes a cover image is born.
Life began for this cover image this past weekend during a session that was truly amazing and produced an incredible amount of strong images. Kudos to Jessamyn for her role in making this image, she deserves a lot of credit.
Jessamyn
found but not lost
Thursday, January 1st, 2009 | Life, Photography | No Comments
I’ve spent a fair amount of time over the past few weeks organizing images that I’ve made over the past few years. Additional computing power and space has afforded me this much needed effort. My images were scattered over a few different hard drives and not easily accessible. My tool of choice is Aperture which I really love. As I’m organizing of course I’m looking at older images with a different eye and found this one from August of 2007 that I absolutely love. The model is Elizabeth.
Elizabeth - A Portrait
rules
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 | Photography | 1 Comment
Rael - Film Noir 1
I received a comment on this image applauding me for breaking a rule with the lighting and complementing the image. As far as rules go I don’t really know what they are or pay any attention to them. I think if you follow guidelines or rules or whatever you want to call them, you’re placing restrictions and limitations on your vision and the work produced. My work involves much experimentation. Some experiments are quickly dismissed if it’s obviously not effective and some take some time, work and practice to attain acceptable satisfactory results. I experiment a lot and in many cases follow my instincts. If I like the results of a particular lighting set up I’ll use it and explore it, if not I’ll move on. I do my work for me to please myself first and if someone else enjoys it or appreciates it that’s also a wonderful reward. If you see something interesting, grab it, play with it and explore it. Great things can come from being aware and open.
a great week
Sunday, December 7th, 2008 | Photography | No Comments
This has been a great week!!! The reception for the show Scott Nichol and I did was a smashing success and the work has been very well received. In fact the host requested that we leave the work up through the end of January. The show was originally only scheduled for the month of December. Organizing a show like this and getting all of the art ready is an incredible amount of work but the reward makes it all worth the effort.
I’ve also sold four copies of my book this week leaving only one available for purchase. I’m working on another book and am not sure if I will do another printing of “Entwined”.
In addition I’ve completed a substantial update and re-organization of my web site Lightphile Studios
the illuminated figure in West Chester
Thursday, November 20th, 2008 | Photography | No Comments
I am pleased to announce that I’ll be showing some recent fine art figure photography at Three Little Pigs in West Chester, PA for the month of December. I’m joined by Scott Nichol, a good friend and accomplished photographer from Allentown, PA.
The Illuminated Figure
new ideas - old and new images
Saturday, October 11th, 2008 | Photography | No Comments
I’m in the process of preparing for a show coming in December so I’m looking through literally hundreds of images that I’ve made over the past few years. As I do this I’m finding some gems that apparently I overlooked when originally evaluating them. Perhaps overlooked is the wrong word. I’ve learned that we see differently at different times so going back is clearly a worthwhile effort. I’m seeing all sorts of magic that I didn’t see in the past. Not only that but ideas are coming to me for book and exhibition projects. These images of Melissa and Zinn are two that I discovered.
Melissa - Simplicity
Zinn - Softness
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