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How to Shoot Modern Art Nudes: Art Nude for the 21st Century

Learn how to create modern, exciting nude images from Concept to Completion. We cover twelve shoots with beautiful professional models, taking you through all the stages: Conceptual Thinking Lighting the Shot Behind the Scenes of the Shoot...

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Homage to Helmut Newton

THINKING: Helmut Newton is probably the most well known, and most copied, photographer in the art nude genre.

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NikiMarie (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Homage to Flaming June

THINKING: I am a huge fan of the pre-Raphaelite painters and their immediate successors in the latter half of the 1800's.

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Freya (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Zara: Photoshoot

Zara and I spent a happy few hours shooting over at Kaz and Lance's place. Zara is wonderfully enthusiastic (though I did manage to get her to reach her comfort zone when it came to the dancing ) A kind of conventional, but nevertheless…

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Jo Paul - Using Backlight and Smoke (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Homage to David Hockney

THINKING: David Hockney developed his "joiner" technique as a way of exploring the idea of cubism in photography.

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Leah Axl (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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Homage to Bob Carlos Clarke

THINKING: Bob Carlos-Clarke (1950-2006) is well known for his very strong, sexually charged images of women.