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Strong background colours bring subjects forward and create drama

Basic colour theory says that warm colours approach and cool, blue colours recede in an image. That's why a pale blue or mottled white and pale blue background has been a staple of portrait photography for years.

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Critique for Ken

Before I start, it's nice to see a completely black and white set. It's strange how few black and white's we see from these workshops these days, I think because it comes out of the camera in colour people tend to get stuck there.

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Model of the Day: 03/03/2026 - Miss Pixie

Our daily model photograph with Miss Pixie

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Model of the Day: 02/03/2026 - Brodie Lock

Our daily model photograph with Brodie Lock

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How to create leading ines in a simple corridor to bring power to an image

Both models and photographers have the bad habit of squaring everything off to the camera. The model tends to turn her body direct to camera, although on the whole she will look better with a turn to the side.

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Model of the Day: 01/03/2026 - Helen Claire

Our daily model photograph with Helen Claire

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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.

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Leah Axl - Using Soft Focus (video)

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

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Model of the Day: 28/02/2026 - Caperucita

Our daily model photograph with Caperucita

Q&A: What iphone photography apps do you use?

Day to day, not so many, I'm not a big user of Hipstagram, Instagram etc, so mostly just the inbuilt ios Camera app.