Inaccurate Concepts

The following pictures are from our small Adam and Eve tandem shoot at UP some weeks ago already. From one’s first look, there seems to be nothing wrong in the concept. It obviously looks like what we usually imagine on how Adam and Eve should look like in a scene- two people with nothing but leaves covering their private parts and Eve holding the forbidden fruit (a.k.a apple) trying to convince Adam to take a bite.But then I realized that the concept was just inaccurate it itself and my last shot was the only one that more or less, becomes faithful with scripture.

I remember the time that we were talking about the usual illustrations of the Adam and Eve story back in college, other than that, I’m quite familiar with Titian’s illustration of a scene in the Adam and Eve story. I do think Titian remains faithful to scripture that Adam and Eve are actually naked and didn’t find any malice in being so before they consumed the forbidden fruit. It was only after they consumed the fruit that they gained consciousness on being naked and started covering their bodies. I’m quite interested when I look at Titian’s painting below….see the serpent? It’s a child with the tail of a serpent…hmmm.

So I happened to realize that looking back at the pictures I took with other people in UP that time, only my last picture was accurate to the concept…but then I still think it lacks something or I just didn’t get the shot I wanted. I was struggling with the flash slave that one of our companions set up. Other than that, I haven’t edited the pictures that those name carvings on the tree are visible. Well, I still thank the people who found time to make the small afternoon shoot possible, especially the models.

Hmmm…I’m still quite curious since there’s this question on my mind whether Eve ate the forbidden fruit first and gained that consciousness of being naked before Adam..LOL. Whatever…as if that will make a huge difference to the Adam and Eve story.