Yoga Freedom
Mark, not every woman has this flexibility, yet each woman has their own story and uniqueness for my lens. This is Angie's.
Wow, Angie is so fluid! She moved from one yoga pose to the next. Effortlessly.
Angie and I go way back. She was in her twenties when she first posed. Fit even then. I don’t think her actual shape and flexibility have changed over the years.
Makes sense when you love workouts and movement.
Read the full blog with lots of images at Angie Is Yoga Fluid
She is a minimalist, not a lot of fluffy stuff or clutter, as she described my normal sets. A clean set for clean lines.
These yoga poses fit nicely into the sculpted art style of images. They are less about expressing personality and more about shape and design.
Just seeing a pose the average person could not get into, let alone hold, has its own art appreciation.
Even though the focus is on artistic styling, for Angie, her body is her expression. So in a unique way, it does express her personality.
Years of training, fitness contests (wearing barely-there posing outfits) have long ago gotten her past any embarrassment about walking around nude.
The set was a simple high-key setup with a white, reflective floor. It was large enough for her to move around and high enough for those stretch-up poses. Turning off one light to create silhouettes.
Although nude, the poses were far from sensual, becoming a glorious statement of her physique. Some arthritis was sneaking into a few joints; even so, she adjusted where others would have avoided attempting.
For Angie, body movement, being fit and expressive through her fitness, has been a lifelong goal, or rather a state of being.
There were some tricky poses, bent over, balancing on her toes, crossing her hands, then adjusting her head position. Holding it patiently as I found the perfect camera angle. Then, making subtle adjustments to perfect her posing. Her images lend themselves to rich variations.
In the old film days, what you shot was your image. With digital image tools, I can take it further and in different directions. A Silhouette can go to full colour with muscle-enhancing shadowing, and finally to a delicate B&W-tinted image.
Another image seemed to beg for grittier, stylized treatment.
The white background can transform into a rich blue, the perfect opposite colour of her skin tone. We are moving her images into illustrative art.
The image transformation can get wilder. We dressed her.
From these basic digital tools, I engaged directed AI assistance.
Her simple, expressive posing on a clean and uncluttered set allowed for an incredible range of creative expressi
Check Angies full blog, Angie is Yoga Fluid, on her amazing yoga expression experience, along with more images.
