I taught a collaborative workshop in the desert with Lindsay Adler on Sunday, and the day after we went out shooting together. She had rented this huge dress, so we both wanted to use it for personal work rather than solely in a workshop. We set out to find poppy fields, but found that there were only a disappointing few along the side of the road. Instead we back-tracked to this field we had seen earlier with an eerie display of poles and wires and decided to shoot. She did her thing for the first hour, and then once the sun went down the model was mine and we could play :)
I was struck immediately by how thin the fabric was and how the light would go through it. The warm glow of the sunset brightened up the dress, and so I wanted to play on that interaction...
The sky being mimicked in her dress, mirrored in the image....her pose mimicking the surrounding wires and poles, crossing each other and looking incredibly industrial out in a beautiful field during sunset. I kept the rather silhouetted form that the model took on here instead of shooting multiple exposures (or rather, I did shoot multiple exposures but didn't use them) - I was ready for a bit of a change and this did that for me. Letting her skin go that dark made her look even more like the metal in the distance.
A play on this picture I did a while back and my love for flowing dresses :)
Model: Sonalii Castillo
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Luís S. Tavares 14 months ago | reply
Damn, great concept, and indeed, what a power :)
bedhiah 14 months ago | reply
awesome picture!!
theanimalstour 14 months ago | reply
excellent
fran_ce8 14 months ago | reply
Grea image!!
Nicole takes pictures 14 months ago | reply
you are amazingly talented!
KeyChild 14 months ago | reply
This is wonderful. Your work is always so breath-taking but I think this image may have taken it up a notch. :) Very impressive.
ginaballerina. 14 months ago | reply
The light, colors, and movement of this are spot on amazing.
<3
Shan.in.W. 14 months ago | reply
what a great concept, love love love how her dress mimics the sunset
Carlos Castañeda' 14 months ago | reply
The sky is what I like the most from the photo. Very magical!
Morey Ptolemy 14 months ago | reply
really wonderful brooke!
*manda 14 months ago | reply
that dress is unbelievably amazing. awesome model as well... and, you're not so bad, either! ;) hee.
sounds like a wonderful workshop!
R1N11 14 months ago | reply
WOW
Rafa Ohana 14 months ago | reply
Magical !
Stevе 14 months ago | reply
love this one too, the dress and the horizon; what a friggin amazing sunset shot!!
GorJess's Photography 14 months ago | reply
WOW! this is incredible! I am truly stunned at how beautiful&amazing this photo is!
Steven Leonti 13 months ago | reply
This is seriously one of the most amazing photos I've seen
thewinterisnotover 12 months ago | reply
Brooke, you're fantastic. Nothing else.
Malina Rosanne 10 months ago | reply
Very good!
Leonisa2 6 months ago | reply
Magnífico trabajo.
Magnificent job.
Sachithra Wijayanayaka's 3 months ago | reply
Nice lighting