A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

Actually, it happened after I arrived at the forum. No, I'm not referring to Rome's famous coliseum, aka "the forum," nor am I writing about the Stephen Sondheim musical. The forum I'm referring to is a photography forum, specifically, the SuperShoots forum.

Yesterday, after logging onto the SuperShoots forum, I noticed a new thread with the subject title, JimmyD's Backyard.

"What's this?" I thought.

It turned out that another SuperShoots member, Ed Selby, had been in San Diego on business--Ed hails from Georgia--and he mentioned that he would have liked to have met up with me while he was here, in Southern California. Ed posted a beach shot that he had snapped. I made a comment which led to another comment by Ed with another of his snaps at the beach which, ironically, turned out to be a pic of a good friend of mine.

I don't know why I'm writing all this out. Just click the SuperShoots links I provided and read it for yourself. It's fairly Twilight Zone-ish.

The eye-candy at the top is Kinzie. I shot Kinzie yesterday for one of my regular employers. Haven't had time to carefully look at all the results yet. I shot Kinzie on both a black BG and on a white cyclorama with different wardrobe for each. (Not that the wardrobe in either set lasted very long.)

The above pic caught my eye during a quick perusal of Kinzie's pics. I was drawn to the way her body is producing all those angles, curves, and lines in that exaggerated pose. Expression could be better-- Her head dropped a bit with a coy smirk would, IMO, improve the image. Oh well. The planets don't always line up the way you want them to. Kinzie captured with my Canon 5D, ISO 200, f/8, 125. Standard 3-light lighting setup. She arrived at the studio made-up and ready to shoot.

Here's an accidental "art" pic of the lovely Kinzie.