I've lots of favourites among the images I've taken, and this is one. To some it may not be art nude as it's too full frontal. More is revealed than is hidden for example, but to focus on the minor points of the image is to miss the beauty of the bigger picture.
I love this image for so many reasons. It's different from much of my work where the model is posed in a location I've chosen, or sometimes with a prop that has been carefully selected to contrast with the model. This image has nothing external to support it. It's Kirsty or nothing. It works on so many levels too.
Apply the 'Golden Spiral to the image and it fits perfectly, starting from the models tummy the spiral winds out and down, returning up the line of her back then across her arms and down to the bottom left hand corner.
In some ways it is reminiscent of Amaury Duval's, 'The Birth of Venus'. A simple nude rising out of the sea against a plain background of the sky.
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| Amaury Duval - The Birth of Venus |
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| Golden Spiral |
I also love the way the shadows play across Kirsty's body, emphasising her shape and femininity. I love the colours too, subtly desaturated from the original. I tried it in black and white too but for me the colour version rocks. It's simple, clean and beautiful.
Hope you like it too.
