danielbauer

dark series: the unpublished (series)

Added 2018-11-16 14:45:38 +0000 UTC

Sometimes selecting the images from a shooting is really a complicated task - which ones are the best ones? Especially when you work with an experienced and really free and open-minded model like Kyotocat who actively participates in the creation of the images. Then you have a session full or good images and it is really hard to decide which ones you edit and which ones not.

Now here are all those images from that session that I have never pubished before. As you can see my goal was to portray Kyotocat's beautiful female shapes in a high contrast surrounding within the dark. Although I love to use open poses (also in this photo set) and have my models showing "everything" of them without limits, I do not always concentrate directly on the sexual parts. They are here, it is visible that there's no shyness and no intention to hide anything, but I let the details fall into the dark of the shadow to create more a mood than a direct documentation.

But because I transformed the images directly from the raw files to jpg without altering contrast or anything, even the jpg's - despite of the loss for compression - still contain a lot of "invisible" information. So, if you want to see some details that are hidden in the dark, just use an image viewer program where you can adjust brightness and contrast - and secret things appear - or, on many images, you can see that there's nothing to see because all is hidden behind the long and dense bush of cosy hairs :-)

What you see here are the completely uncropped, unaltered and unretouched originals just as I shot them. The contrast you see is the actual contrast that I made with the flashes I used.

I love this series and I hope you like this very sensual and natural, artistic photo set, too!