During March I participated in Brooke Sheldon’s 30 Days of Creativity Challenge. Every day we had an inspirational video and some challenge concepts. I am horribly behind in creating images for the daily challenges but I have very much enjoyed seeing the great work being done by other students.
Brooke inspires me because she got started with essentially herself and a camera and made the fine art self portait an amazing artform all of its own. While I am still developing my photoshop skills to the level required, I have also been inspired to work on experimenting with the photography aspect.
Take one long narrow white room, with a window at one end, a long piece of cotton muslin, a camera on a tripod with a 10sec self timer mode – add your photographer who is also the model and let the chaos ensue!
I had to banish one cat who thought the fabric trailing on the ground was the best fun 🙂
If you are going to bare your artistic soul, then for some reason, I feel the need to do it literally, going completely nude. Yet the fabric both hides and reveals. Not sure quite what that says about me but it makes a nice image.
Edited in LR to a black and white and a couple of textures added in PS for some added depth and interest.
Am I nuts? Or am I maybe on to something here? Let me know!
Learning to See Light 
This is amazing Stacey. Very sexy too. Seriously it is gorgeous.
Thanks Raewyn 🙂
I agree with Raewyn, I also thinks it’s very brave
Thanks, I am curious about the brave comment – do you consider me brave because I am using myself as the model? or because I am doing it in the nude?
Actually both…..I hate seeing photos of myself and I don’t think I could stand in front of the camera naked. Even with a sheet. I applaud your doing this. I personally love self portraits of other people. But so seldom do any of my own
I don’t like seeing my face in images, hence the fabric, and it helps camoflague the lumps and bumps so to speak 🙂
I have never had a problem with nudity, I have worked as a life model (full nude) for many art schools over the years – I get paid to be naked in front of a room of complete strangers!
That I have a problem with too. I have always had a weight problem so getting nude is not for me either. I admire someone who is not as self conscious as me
Well I guess we all create in ways that work for ourselves. Mind you I have NO IDEA why my brain insists I have to be naked either LOL
lol………my creative side says do it, do it, do it………..then the rest of my brain ahhhhhhhhh no I don’t think so lol.
so if you are home alone one day, why not just try it, trust me, if you saw some of the OTHER images I had from the same shoot that got instantly deleted LOL. What have you got to lose?
I guess..it’s only my dignity right/ bwahahaha
No one other than you need ever know, and it might just surprise you.
Oh, well done Stacey. I find the muslin both revealing and shielding, it allows enough to be see but leaves a lot to be imagined. As an artistic image I find it so much more interesting than straight portraiture with textures added. I know it is a learning curve but I like it much more than the first one you posted, wow, that seems ages ago.
Yes I like it MUCH more than the first one, but as you say, its a learning curve so I had to start at the beginning. Plus I needed the exposure to what other people were achieving with limited resources and have time to think about it (and wait for the easter sales so I could get 3m of fabric half price LOL)
Its going to be an interesting journey to see where this takes me 🙂
I’ll enjoy following Stacey 🙂
Beautiful beautiful image!
Thanks Jade 🙂