Nude on Exercise Bike

[Maris]

Nude on Exercise Bike
Gelatin-silver photograph on Agfa Classic VC FB photographic paper, image size 16.3cm X 21.5cm, from a 4x5 Kodak Tri-X negative exposed in a Tachihara 45GF field view camera fitted with a Schneider Super Angulon 90mm f8 lens.

An abstraction of power held static.

[Mick Fagan]

Interesting view point. If you hadn't mentioned it was on an exercise bike, I would never have guessed.

I like the rim lighting on the upper torso as it gives definition to the silhouette of the figure.

Sort of an action shot using a view camera; not an easy ask.

[Maris]

Thanks Mick. This was made during my "Bill Brandt" phase under the influence of his Perspective of Nudes book. A wide angle lens on a view camera pointing up steeply from floor level is hard to focus as well as being a contortionist's nightmare.