Window Nude - 2000

This is one of my favorite images of W. Taken with an Olympus C2000Z P&S Digital camera, it captures her slender, elegant beauty quite nicely. The setting is the corner of our living room. The windows here have a southern exposure which provides for strong backlighting during most of the day. As I recall, this was taken in the early summer of 2000 as part of a series of images we were shooting just for fun and this image was the best of many very good shots.

I'd like to say the blow out in the window behind Wanda was deliberate in order to obscure most of the house and other distracting elements behind her. The reality is that I had no ability to use a strong external strobe with this little camera (I didn't get my first digital SLR until later that year), and the little on-camera flash of the little Olympus simply couldn't balance the strong exterior light. Fortunately, despite the on-camera flash there are no harsh shadows and no red eye to mar the image.

The C2000Z was a 2 megapixel camera, so I had very limited resolution for editing this shot. Of course, in 2000, 2 megapixels was a very decent resolution for a camera. Later that year when I purchased my first DSLR, the Canon 30D, 3 megapixels was the standard. The C2000Z was a very capable camera for its time and I used it for far more than just glamour images. Check out the images below which were taken in my backyard and then at a winery later that year. The detail and the color are wonderful for a camera we would laugh at today.