We were actually capturing full length and portrait shots in this wet paint shot, but I was fascinated by the small, abstract interaction and mixing of the paints.  I only had about 2 minutes to have a quick go at catching all these small surfaces.
 
Looking at them now, I wish I had got even closer (I suppose they could be cropped more) and also I would spend more time seaking out angles.   I wasn’t sure what I was going to be able to get in the heat of the moment, …

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Squirty painty mess!!
 
The pictures really speak for themselves about what was going on.   But here’s some tips. 
 
1) Test colours on yourself first, keep them on the skin for at least an hour then wash off.  Make sure they do not stain !!!    (Even finger paints can stain)
 
2) You can use squirty poster paint, childrens paints, proper body paint, even food colouring in yoghurt.
 
3) It will make a mess of your studio, floors, bathroom, shower etc
 
4) It is all more random than you can imagine.
 
 
 
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Raphaella is very well known as a dance model, her moves are amazing.  She is also a complete whirlwind – I’m a fast shooter and I struggled to keep up with her.  
 
I wanted to capture that essence of whirlwind and also take some dance shots that weren’t pin-sharp but instead used the motion as part of the image.
 
These shots are a mix of studio flash, modelling lamps, additional lights – in all sorts of combinations.   Shutter speeds were tweaked on the fly to ensure exposure and motion in different …

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I don’t quite know how to explain a LensBaby, you probably just want to noodle over to their website.  Essentially it is a deliberately out-of-focus, tilt-shift lens built for creative messing, not accuracy.
 
The whole point of the wibbly-wobbly tilty-shiftiness is that only portions of your image are in focus.   Using it outdoors isn’t too bad, you can generally see what you are doing in the viewfinder.  Using it indoors is much harder, the LensBaby has a fixed aperture, so the image looks very dark so it’s almost a random process.
 
I’ve …

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Strictly speaking, this isn’t Photoshop as I use Corel’s Photo Pro.   But this is about post-processing. 
 
The first shot of Harriett Langley has had some different coloured water splashes added to the image.   I thought this would be easy, but actually making the splashes look like the flowing from and around and over the body is much harder than I thought.   For the colouring of the splashes I have used colours already in the image to give it some coherence.
 
 
 

 
This is just a bit of fun creating a mirrored image.  …

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