I’ve had my clients refer to my work in a number of ways, and sometimes this includes “therapeutic” or as I call it, “phototherapy for your soul.” Some of the clients that tell me this are models looking to strengthen their portfolios. More often, they are professional, everyday women who just want to look and feel beautiful and desirable. Sometimes we meet and chat for an hour before the shoot, and sometimes we just dive right in, but what always happens is that my subjects are transformed by the time we are done. They depart feeling present in themselves, and as beautiful and whole as they truly are.
You can see a larger set of images from this shoot here: Misty’s Gallery.
I've been taking pictures since I was old enough to be trusted with my father's old Leica. I must have been ten years old. The old man never let me use a light meter, insisting that I gauge my settings by eyeballing the sky. Of course, my photos were often under or over-exposed, because it's very difficult to make those sorts of judgments with any accuracy. There's a reason they make light meters. It did teach me about shutter speed, film speed, and aperture, though. These days, my camera does the calculating, of course, but it's helpful to know these things... and to break the rules to your advantage.
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