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in dreamland

Shot this very early in the morning on Friday. I went out prop shopping for the baby and the blanket at Goodwill and was very excited to find the the perfect red blanket was actually a snuggie! Two for one :-)

When I conceived this shot I wanted it to come out very dreamlike, as though this might not really be happening. To achieve that, and maybe you think I haven't, was to give the model a dramatic pose and to make the hands entirely red yet have no red on the nightgown. I wanted the red from the blanket to be streaming down, another reminder of flowing blood. I think this has a romantic feeling to it, a painterly quality, and to me that takes the subject out of reality and places them in a dreamland, somewhere that could be a painting or that could be another time completely.

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Model: Katie Johnson
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Taken on: May 21, 2010

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Groups appears in: • Imagination • Nikon D80 Users more » • Ouvrier de l'Image • I love the square format • d a y_d r e a m e r s • arrakala (groove) -----closing---- « less

Camera: Nikon D80, f/3.5, 1/30 sec, 50mm (=75mm), ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon D80
Lens:	50.0 mm f/1.8
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.033 sec (1/30)
Focal Length:	50mm (35mm equivalent: 75mm)
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	Uncalibrated
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
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