How many photographs is enough?

After Lin’s last post and the comments that have been left I think I should say some words on the subject of Lin’s decision.

I have been shooting Lin in the studio for nearly a year with most of the shots being in the form of the simple figure study. We have made maybe 1000 shots of varying levels of success. In recent months, every time we did a shoot Lin would be disappointed, not because the images weren’t good, but because they weren’t getting better than those she already had.

Now 1000 shots of anyone on a grey backdrop with 2-3 lights is going to cover just about everything you can do with those limit variables, and we have done pretty much everything I can think of. So to my mind it was time for us to do something else. To take better photographs of Lin the change that’s needed is in style rather than just taking more pictures.

I want to expand into other areas and Lin wants good photographs. I think this is a win-win situation and does not mean seeing Lin as “not beautiful enough”. I hope you will agree.

All I can say is “Watch this space”, we have good things planned.

Here is my favourite picture of Lin, one of the first we shot. I have it printed 16x12 and framed above my desk where I can enjoy the beauty of Lin when she’s not sitting here with me.