Frame Five Media

Set 21 of 24

Throat Threads, showroom

Showroom coverage weighted, on the owner's instruction, toward close work. The space is a run of white rooms, tall sash windows, wall-hung rails, long display tables, floors that go from near-black to pale oak. The problem was mixed light: window daylight fighting warm track fittings overhead. The photographer held verticals square on the wides, kept reflection off glass tops and metal rails, and worked the close frames with the window as a raking source.

Raking light is the whole job on cloth.

Turn the pages with the arrows, the arrow keys, or by clicking either side of the spine. Every frame is here in order.

  1. White room, dark floor, a long table of folded shirts.
    01 opener White room, dark floor, a long table of folded shirts.
    Raking light down three fabrics: fine check, open mesh, pale pink.
    02 detail
  2. Long room, rails on both walls, pale wood floor.
    03 wide
    Hangtag reading "L'AGENCE" beside a topstitched patch pocket.
    04 detail
  3. Three dressed forms at the window, jackets over knit layers.
    05 moment
    Check, paisley, stripe and diamond hung shoulder to shoulder.
    06 detail
  4. Folded shirts fill a lit display table below wall rails.
    07 portrait
    Three stamped gold-tone buttons on a navy woven cuff.
    08 detail
  5. Rails and an upholstered chair on a dark polished floor.
    09 wide
    Four textured sleeves in teal, sage, tan and pink.
    10 detail
  6. Footwear on a round table, a form in a printed dress.
    11 moment
    Printed shirts on the rail: florals, novelty motifs, hot pink.
    12 detail
  7. A framed sign reading "ÉMA NOU" above a full rail.
    13 wide
    A looped monogram on a pale, finely textured surface.
    14 detail
  8. Rib runs out of focus from blue into sage and cream.
    15 detail
    Shoulders on hangers: micro-check against corded and ribbed surfaces.
    16 closer

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