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You can crop in to create unusual nude body shapes

THINKING: Sometimes while shooting things happen. In this case while shooting general bodyscapes my model pulled in her stomach like this and I went "Wow!

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Isis Wings - Stunning curves working with nude model curves

These golden wings are known as Isis Wings and are used by belly dancers. These I purchased from eBay. They are a large pleated circle of cloth with two sticks, one for each of the models hands.

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Leah Axl - How to use the environment (video)

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Why f11?

Interesting question came up the other day - why do we go for f11 as the "preferred" aperture on our lens?

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You can put a plastic bag over your lens and create fascinating images.

You know long before photoshop was invented photographers were always manipulating images - right from the very early days montage, HDR printing, camera trickery, double exposures all those tricks were in place.

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Model of the Day: 19/03/2026 - Carla Monaco

Our daily model photograph with Carla Monaco

Favourite accessory of 2009

This is shamelessly culled from the net-model website, but I thought it was interesting, the discussion was on favourite accessories, excluding lenses and cameras, here's the summary: "A large, round white/silver reflector.

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Experimental Shoots: Motion Blur with Raphaella

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.

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Model of the Day: 18/03/2026 - Maja Stina

Our daily model photograph with Maja Stina

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Raphaella - Using lines and curves for best effect (video)

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