Tiana asked me to take some pictures of her during her pregnancy so she could have a record of what her body looks like compared to the rockin’ body it was before. In return, she posed for some other projects I had in mind.
It was an exercise in colour tones and mood. As I’m getting more comfortable in working with RAW files, I wanted to try my hand at adjusting tint, exposure, saturation, and contrast.
At one point I asked her how to spell “pregasaurus” (a term she came up with to encapsulate her girth), and she reminded me that it was a made-up word, with no commonly accepted way of spelling it.
The media makes pregnancy out to be such a glamorous affair, with designer clothes and celebrity births, that it seems to be deleteriously affecting the younger generation. I wanted to portray pregnancy in a much more casual, natural light. Hence the ghetto T-shirt and the belly sticking out.
Thanks goes to Tiana for not only getting nude for me, but for being so photogenic at eight months through the pregnancy, and working with me on these ideas.
I was so hugenormous!
It would technically be preg O saurus. I only know this because I had to do hand-lettering for a bunch of dinosaur pictures that ended up on Discovery Channel T-shirts.
Poor pregosaurus looks awfully uncomfortable and hot in that couch shot. Or maybe it’s my projection…. *(boiling)* I think that’s the shot I like the best, it makes me presume something more than what appears.
It used to be that pregnant women would bloat all over—in the limbs, neck, face. I don’t know why, these days, some pregnant women are so slim they look like they’re walking around with fake bellies.
During watching these photos I had the warm feeling that how beautiful can be to be pregnant and to bear a baby. In our modern life lot of womens experience the pregnancy as a terrible period of their life suffering from everything and they always complain. Pregnancy is not something what women have to survive but have to consider as a precious time and to try to bear it with optimism. In our time it may be difficult…
Also, modern women are so strong and have so much responsibility: working 9/5, cooking and cleaning, exercising and maintaining a heathy lifestyle … all these things when enduring the stresses and changes a body goes through during the pregnancy. Women who are lucky and blessed enough to have a partner to love and support them during this time, I am sure know how lucky they are.
I see it from the opposite angle; a partner would be blessed to have a woman who can handle such responsibilities!
@Tiana — And massgantic!
@Xibee — I would imagine that having any kind of extra body mass that generates heat would be very uncomfortable. Like walking around with a heavy furnace strapped to your body. As a man, I’ll never truly know.
@Uncle Joe — I know someone like that actually. She’s pregnant but it barely shows, aside from some dark spotting on the lips. Not sure why, but perhaps it has something to do with metabolism.
@Kati — Since I don’t know many pregnant people, it’s hard for me say, but I could understand that pregnancy is a very difficult time for some. Just the idea of how much a body can change in nine months is rather scary. Nonetheless, it remains a beautiful thing, and those who are able to experience it should be able to appreciate their ability to do so.