

A luxury hosiery campaign photograph, white studio, one hard light from the side. Extreme close, macro: the back of her knee and the top of her calf fill the whole frame, the leg bent, sheer black twenty denier tights stretched tight over the joint so the knit opens and her pale skin shows through it as a lighter patch, the weave visible as a fine grid across the tension. Both her hands come in and pinch the knit either side of the knee to pull it straight, her short neat bare nails against the black. A fine gold chain anklet sits low in the frame on the ankle below. Nothing else is in the frame - no face, no room. Camera at the height of the knee, macro close, level. one hard raking source from the left so the stretched knit shines and the slack knit stays matte, extreme high contrast, white ground, shallow depth of field, sharp focus on the weave where it is stretched thinnest. In the lower right corner, a small pencil signature: Ziggy