Zara - How to Break a Pose (video)

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

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AOP part 55: Symbols

I've talked earlier about the role of props in shots and how they should be symbolic. In this case the symbol is about as unsubtle as you can get!

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Wrapped

THINKING: I wish I had an industrial sized vacuum wrapping machine - I have thought I could achieve some great shots with vacuum wrapped models!

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JammyLou = Colour and Gaze (video)

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

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Contrast

THINKING: On a wet and cloudy day I wanted to create an image about basking in the sun. The classic photographer's problem - an image in mind and weather that won't co-operate.

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AOP part 54: Different Angle

As I said, the vertical hanging shots were difficult in the location, but this much lower shot I really like.

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Constrained Spaces

THINKING: If you keep plonking your models in front a plain photo backdrop - just like 99% of all other photographs - how do you hope to create something different?

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Tillie - Cold Marble Environment - Light and Touch (video)

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

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AOP part 53: Aerial Ropes

Well of course those trapdoors where placed for a reason! And it just so happens that Maja is a trained aerialist!

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Breaking the Pose

THINKING: You can't ask a model to pose "gay abandon". This just would not work. Instead you must create a setting in which the model can freely move and express that moment.

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100 Do's and Don'ts for Studios

How a $5 prop can create great images

Helen Stephens Photoshoot

Model of the Day: 05/01/2020 - Niki Marie