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AOP part 61: Shape and Careful Clarity on the Horns

The issues I discussed earlier about shadows merging on the black suit also applied to the headpiece.

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AOP part 60: Maleficent

As you can see, Maja and I are working a series of shots, building elements as we go along. This is a planned process.

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Creating a Fourties Glamour Style

In these images I am invoking the sense of the fourties and fifties glamour pin-ups, but with a modern edge to them.

PhotoShoot: LouLou

Lou and I never seem to shoot enough together, I think the last time we shot must have been a couple of years ago when we did the Wedding Dress Fire set.

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AOP part 59: Full on Alien

This make-up style was really striking me as something from a sci-fi movie, so of course the next step was to go full alien!

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JammyLou - Subconscious References (video)

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

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Anonymity 2: Candid

THINKING: By not having faces within an image we invite the viewer to look around the image and take in other aspects of the image.

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AOP part 58: Not an Airbrush

This look I blissfully stole from the movie "Blade Runner". In the film the character Tris, played by Darryl Hannah, applies this herself using an airbrush in one sweep.

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Anonymity 1: Strength

THINKING: As soon as we show a face in an image then it becomes a portrait. It becomes a study of the person.

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Sammie - Natural Red Head Nude Portrait (video)

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

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