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  • Happy Holidays!

    Happy Holidays!

    Thank you to everyone who made an impact on my photography this year! I love you all! I hope you are all nestled by the chimney with care surrounded by those you love.

    Every Christmas I make a donation to the Weingart Center for the Homeless. I hope you’ll join me in helping the homeless of skid row move on to a better life. Having nearly 51,000 homeless people on any given night, Los Angeles is the “Homeless Capital of the Country”. We all need to take a stand against this staggering fact. They provide a way up by helping them find jobs and other programs. It’s not just a bed for a night or food for an afternoon. They actually do something and without prejudice. Help the homeless this season please!

    Enjoy a photo I made recently in Australia with Kat Love.

     

    © 2013 Zoe Wiseman - model: Kat Love
    © 2013 Zoe Wiseman – model: Kat Love
  • Polaroid Type 55 with the Floof

    Polaroid Type 55 with the Floof

    I had plans to go out to the sand with Floofie for our shoot last week but catching a silly cold prevented that. So we stayed in and made some Polaroid Type 55 images. Yes, I still have a stash luckily. It doesn’t like to get warm so I have to press the film against the freezer wall right before I insert it into the film holder. It’s getting very finicky. I like the torn look and don’t really mind unless it’s messing with the composition. I’m glad to still be working with the film and thanking my foresight when it came to stockpiling it before the demise. For now I don’t need to start shooting regular 4×5 film and developing later. I like the on the spot developing. It makes me happy. I obtained a minute amount of solarization on this shoot and I’m super stoked about that. I usually get it easily with the Polaroid Type 85 I use with my Holga and Polaroid Back, so maybe the aging process is lending more funk to the film. I’ll take it.

    So, enjoy the shoot…

     

     

     

     

  • Out in the Desert…

    I love wandering around vast open spaces with big sky in the desert with my 35mm and red filter. Here are a couple images from 2012 during Zoe Fest with Anne Duffy and Claudine. 

    ©2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Anne Duffy
    ©2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Anne Duffy
    ©2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Anne Duffy
    ©2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Anne Duffy
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Claudine
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Claudine
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Claudine
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman ~ model: Claudine

  • One of the Most Surreal Images I’ve made

    I just returned from my yearly festival for ARTnudes Network. One of the images I made there with the model Ella Rose is one of my most surreal to date. When pulling apart the Pos/Neg Type 85 Polaroid I decided to only solarize 1/2 of the image instead of the entire piece of film. What happened was a trip! I’m going to do this more often. This is just tripped out. Check out what it did to her torso. And the peel marks… how did they not affect her skin?

    There is zero photoshop manipulation on this photograph. It’s all on the film.

    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman - Model: Ella Rose
    © 2012 Zoe Wiseman – Model: Ella Rose

  • Polaroid Type 55 yum

    A new image with Titania Lyn. Polaroid Type 55 and some natural light.

  • 15 Mexico – A Video

    Zoe Fest X 2011 was held in Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
    figuremodels.org/festx

    Behind the scenes footage courtesy of Michael Marlborough. michaelmarlborough.com

    It was 100 degrees on the Southern Tip of Baja at the end of the day on October 24, 2011.

    Zoe Fest is a yearly fine art nude artist retreat held in different areas of the globe. 2009 and 2010 were held in Australia. From 2002-2008 we were in different areas of the United States. This was it’s 10th year, hence the “X.”

    Models: Carlotta Champagne, Sara Liz, Anne Duffy, Tara Liggett, Claudine, St. Merrique, Anoush Anou, Ella Rose, Brooke Lynne, Samantha Grace, Stephanie Anne, Meghan Claire, Keira Grant, Rebecca Lawrence and Candace Nirvana.

     

    You do funny things when you hold a camera sometimes to get certain angles. I know I’m weird.

    First video by me.

    Thanks to Michael Marlborough for filming the behind the scenes action!

    And an image from the shoot.

  • Mexico!

    I just had one of the most awesome adventures in Mexico at the artist retreat I put on once a year, Zoe Fest. It was the 10th annual get together of models and photographers from my website Communityzoe.com. You can follow our group blog at http://www.figuremodels.org/festx and check out all the great work everyone created while we were all together.

    I’ll write more about that subject soon. Just wanted to share a few images I created. I’m 1/2 way through all my processing, cataloging, scanning and editing. I can’t believe it! Definitely check out the group blog. It’s really awesome seeing what a group of photographers and models who are passionate about figure photography can do when they all get together. I love these people! 🙂

     

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  • 85

    Am I the only photographer who still has any Polaroid Type 85 left? I think I might be. It makes me sad.

    Today I had a great shoot with Zinn Star. We worked mostly with my Rollei but broke off for a few minutes to waste away a package of Polaroid Type 85 that I had never put in the fridge for storage. I think the last pack I was able to purchase was in 2006. I’ve been storing refrigerators full of it but wanted to see what a package would do that hadn’t been stored appropriately. I kind of like it a lot.

    These are, of course, solarized. A technique of peeling the polaroid apart before it’s fully exposed (about 10 seconds) and then holding the negative up to the sun so it tweaks the chemicals to make the shadows do really amazing things. They become lighter in spots on the negative, where as the shadows on the positive stay completely black. But what happened with the expired film was the brownish erosion at the top and bottom. To me it looks a bit like out of focus vines or leaves trying to take over a scene as if an abandoned building would attract the same.

    Sadly, positive/negatives films are being overrun by the environment. The chemicals are getting old and rotting the films like they would old wooden floorboards of a house. I’m glad I have a lot of it left still… this makes me want to preserve it even more. I know those photographers who still have their positive/negative polaroid films feel the same. This is magical to us. We aren’t really into the other Polaroid Types…. they don’t have actual negatives. So I raise a toast to all the photographers out there moaning through each pack of film knowing that you can’t hoard it, you have to shoot it, and the day it’s completely gone will certainly be upon all of us.

     

  • Reflections of 2010

    Thank you to everyone who played a part in making 2010 a special year for me. It was filled with happy moments and great picture making. Trips to Australia, New Orleans, New England and all over my home state of California. Book publishings, gallery exhibitions, magazine features, working with amazing models and learning quite a bit and growing quite a bit.

    A really special thank you to all the people at A&I. The exhibitions that I participated in were so much fun and I met so many wonderful people. It’s nice being part of a beautiful photo community in the city where I live. Thank you for allowing me to put on such a big solo exhibition too!

    Australia. I love you. I love your people. I love your land. I want to throw a rope around the tail hitch of the plane each time I leave and drag you back to California with me. I do. I do! I hope all of you in Queensland are staying somewhat dry right now. What a flood! Sorry.

    Thank you to all the collectors who purchased my work this year. While book and magazine publishings really make one happy, nothing makes someone happier than when someone likes the work so much that they buy it and hang it on their wall. Pure happiness!

    Thank you to American Photo for making me their centerfold this July! What a hoot! 10 years later this photo is still being published. Love that.

    Thank you very much to all the models who worked with me this year. I hope the work we did reaches the pages of more books and magazines in the future. You’ll be the first to know!

    Thank you to Feierbend Unique Books, 1x, Sunset Studios and A&I for all the publishing and exhibits!

    And speaking at Apple about iPhone photography! Geek moment to remember!

    And thank you to all the people who have touched me personally this year. Who have helped me see the world a bit more positively and shared my love of the earth, sky and water. Made me laugh, made me cry, and supported me in ways that gave me that special boost to carry on. I love you all.

    Enjoy a photo from what will be remembered as a very amazing year! Bring on 2011!! Happy New Year!

     

  • Video from my Ovation TV Showing

    The My Art series that I was selected for showed on Ovation TV today. Here is the YouTube video. Enjoy!