[pure-silver] Re: Photographing Hands
- From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 14:17:32 +0800
Dear Bob and Bert,
There is always a simple answer to any problem in the surgery or the
studio. Sometimes it is the same answer ie " Put your clothes on and get out
and take that damned boa constrictor with you! " The only real difference is
how long it takes to hose the walls down and who you send the bill to.
Artistic hands are a lovely project. I have seen some remarkable
pictures that the late Yousef Karsh took of famous persons' hands and wish I
could duplicate the tonalities. I have also noticed that dancers can
sometimes have such good pose control of their hands that it makes it a
pleasure to deal with them. Of course sometimes they just flap about on the
ends of the arms like wet fish, but even this is better than the subject who
has no idea whatsoever about hands and has to be ' constructed ' into a pose
joint by joint.
I find a volume of classical painting reproductions with suitable
illustrations post-it noted helps me to communicate what I want from the
models. It is disconcerting, however, when one of my best models has such
veins on the backs of her hands as to preclude any poses with the hands
down. I have to resort to hands above head or encased in opera gloves. If
the veins get any worse I am going to have to exchange the opera gloves for
steel gauntlets....
Uncle Dick
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