Lila, the full take

I had completely forgotten to do my Friday post of a model's full take, and it reminded me of someone asking, what?! Four photos or eight or whatever it was, that's all the full take was? I have always been a conservative shooter; sometimes, I consider myself an efficient shooter who gets the shot and moves on. I learned from film and never got out of the idea that I only had 36 frames in the case of 35mm format or 12 frames for my 6X6 format on my Hasselblad.

That being said when I say full-take, I mean the ones I thought were worth editing and posting.

So, here we are, and this week's full take is of Lila; I met her when she was 18, and we started shooting amid COVID when I thought, eh fuck it, I'll go out and shoot. We can't be doing anything wrong. It was three people, me, the model, and my grip. Plus, we were all masked up and outside, so we did! None of us got sick from our shoots, by the way.

Lila is HAPA, and I especially love creating with mixed-race models. They always have a different look, and trying to figure out their ethnicity is always fun. Okay, enough yapping. I shot all of these in existing light when I still had access to hotel rooms for boudoir shoots.