In continuation with my old film work, I decided to pick up with the self-portraits again, and use them as a way to get me thinking symbolically about gesture and figure. I picked out remaining colors to examine: white, green, yellow, orange, black, and purple, respectively.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, WHITE:

For WHITE, I decided to whip out the ol' wedding dress. After all, what other white garments could I possibly find in my wardrobe? I love that a wedding dress comes already loaded with connotation; read into it what you will.

The setting is by a window, so the overall ambient light is diffused by the blinds in my living room. A flash (off to the right), was triggered via radio slave to supplement the light and give a little more drama. In post-processing, I added a little vignetting and bumped up the contrast.

As for posing, I chose the first shot, because it appears as though I am flying. And the second, I enjoy the dramatic, quirky cropping, which complements the strange phenomenon of "girl on the floor in a wedding gown". The strangeness is also accentuated by the wide angle of my lens, set to 17mm (normally, it's anathema to put someone's face by the edge of a wide-angle frame shot).

There you have it: WHITE.

By the end of the summer, I hope to have shot all the remaining colors. Green is complete (and forthcoming!). I have well-formed ideas for yellow, black, and purple, and even some potential locations. Orange, however, remains a mysterious challenge for me. We will see what comes from letting it simmer in my brain.