Those are cool pants. Super cool pants. Even cooler than, I fear, I was able to capture. Still need to develop the roll of Acros that I took, tho. One of the pieces of instructions I give is that I don't like photographing pants. It's not a gender-role thing because Mrs. Wirehead has plenty of pants that she wears regularly. I washed several pairs while I was doing laundry last night. It more goes down to the fact that pants are just plain boring. And I like to create a fantastic space where fishynets and dresses and sequins and bright colors and things that don't quite match all work so well together in my photography. Except for these pants. Kinda seventies, with the bell bottoms. But as soon as she pulled them out, prefaced by "So I know you said you don't like to photograph pants," I knew they'd work out just fine. Dorka has very set ideas in mind because she's an artist on her own. So I showed her a shot on the G7's screen and she said that the lighting was great but it otherwise says nothing. Oops. Yep, she's right. Wasn't mean criticism, but was still a reminder that just because the lighting's cool I can't abandon posing. Anyway, the way this shot worked was that I had my Sunpak 622 Pro on the light stand (I used the camera bracket this time, which was great because I can then screw the trigger into the camera screw and the whole works just feels stable. And so I set up the light and then triggered the whole works off of the Sunpak 144PC in the camera's hotshoe with a piece of black slide film taped over the edge. And that's the sun behind her, making a halo.

December 30, 2009 Haha, he's going to kill me for posting this. My mom got us Matching XBox Pajamas (seriously) for Christmas. The cool part is they are warm and comfortable as mess, even though we feel corny wearing them. I couldn't get him to wear the shirt, so I just layed it on him for the picture. But the pants are game for winter. Haha. Game. Thanks, Mom! :)