{"id":7593,"date":"2026-06-18T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=7593"},"modified":"2026-06-18T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:05:01","slug":"selene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=7593","title":{"rendered":"Selene"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>These two views of Selene were obtained in the late aughts, the one in the kitchen in natural light with a Sputnik for sure&#8230; the one with mirrors in studio probably with the Sputnik, alternately maybe with my Mamiya 6 twin rig, and using a strobe kit for illumination. <\/p>\r\n<p>The shot with the mirrors was part of a series of images exploring the difficulties people sometimes have in seeing themselves as beautiful, or even just acceptable. I wanted to get models to draw themselves on a mirror, easily just following \/ tracing their reflection using a grease\/wax pencil. The plan had been (actually, still is) to find a very skinny\/anorexic model, and have her draw herself as quite <em>fat<\/em> in the mirror. I&#8217;ve not yet found that model, but in the interim got some pretty good pictures with Selene and one other model using this mirror situation.<\/p>\r\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7595\" src=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1300\" height=\"1733\" srcset=\"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio.jpg 1300w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/selene-dragon-folio-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1300px) 100vw, 1300px\" \/><br \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>The kitchen view was inspired by the back-lighting that we got every morning, with sunlight streaming over the stove, lighting up steam etc. as one might cook breakfast. Selene was happy to oblige my desire to add some spice to this visual recipe.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two views of Selene were obtained in the late aughts, the one in the kitchen in natural light with a Sputnik for sure&#8230; the one with mirrors in studio probably with the Sputnik, alternately maybe with my Mamiya 6 twin rig, and using a strobe kit for illumination. The shot with the mirrors was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[808,607],"tags":[47,131,12],"class_list":["post-7593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d27","category-dragon","tag-boris-starosta","tag-nude","tag-sputnik"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7599,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7593\/revisions\/7599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}