How to light the perfect bum

Lighting bums is a lot like lighting faces - it needs light and dark to really give the bum shape and form and make it look attractive.

Pool

For our American readers you will be running why on earth we have set up an indoor pool in the studio - well it's cold here in the UK. And of course it does give some control over lighting.

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Dance Meltdown

Models can sometimes be the worst posers, especially when it comes to being relaxed and natural. They become so practiced at the perfect pose and the perfect expression that this can sometimes get in the way of that more natural look.

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Fur Coat

Fur can add a hint of "sensuality" to an image. I don't mean in the sexual way, but in the literal use of "sense" - in this case the sense of touch. We can imagine how the fur feels against the skin.

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Nude with textiles

A simple arrangement of contrasting colours in the background and the textile material and dynamic posing from our model.

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CineFoil

Cinefoil, also known as simply black foil, is a great light shaper. If you haven't come across it before, it is like a thick kitchen foil painted black.

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Red Sofa

Black and white and red all over - no it's not a newspaper, it's our strongly themed set. The core red and white sofa and cove are already strong, so we need a black outfit rather than coloured to keep all the colours strong and contrasting.

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Inside a Lightbox

These giant lightboxes are used to create a portable hi-key backdrop. Normally you position them against a wall - put one or two strobes to pump light inside them.

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Jeans and Gels

A girl in her jeans, so simple, so clean, so often seen as well, it is after all a staple of jeans advertising. The wall behind Carla is a messy paint finish on an off-white base, but I wanted to put some colour into this image for impact.

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Creating a diptych

Although shot as single images, my pre-visualisation for this shoot was the diptych at the end of this post.

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