All Those Beautiful Shades of Grey

First drafts of the new images from a shoot I did on Friday. Still more editing to do, but it's all coming together. A few weeks before final review this semester and so far I feel as if I'm in a pretty good place (amongst my usual strange and scary) with it all.

It was another cold one, but slightly overcast and a good night for it. Again, a big Thank You to my lovely and amazingly patient models. Together we had a very productive and magical night spent traveling in the borderland of reality and fiction. And these are some of the initial results. 

I'm trying to bring out other characters besides just the bunnies, but as of now they are still the entry-point, or the guide into that other place. A couple of 'dragons' are in the making and things are still on the move. Final due date still not till late October or somewhere thereabouts. 

For final review this semester I'm gonna have one or two resolved images printed and, hopefully, a deeper clarity around them. Next steps will be to do the final editing and selection, and determine what size they need to be and start proofing and testing. 

I want to print on the large Epson 9800 so a decision about paper also needs to be made. So far I have done small tests on the Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk  and that seems  to be working alright without struggling too much with color balance and luminosity. But my hope is that before I start final printing we will have gotten more Crane Silver Rag. 

I haven't tested more than four different papers so far, but I can see how one would become a slight paper-nerd. :) 

Still much more to do and strange places to go. 

Until next time...