Critique for Colin

Colin attended one of our recent RPS art nude workshops. Although there were four models over the two days I like the way that Colin has focussed on just one, it makes for a stronger set.

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Leah Axel Photo Shoot: Hollywood, American Beauty and Cinderalla

I always have fun working with Leah 'cos she's so bubbly and full of vitality. As soon as I saw this dress I thought of Hollywood and setup this "film studio" kind of setup.

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Model of the Day: 12/02/2026 - Miss Pixie

Our daily model photograph with Miss Pixie

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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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NikiMarie - Understanding Fashion Styling (video)

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

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Model of the Day: 11/02/2026 - Leah Axl

Our daily model photograph with Leah Axl

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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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Model of the Day: 10/02/2026 - Carla Monaco

Our daily model photograph with Carla Monaco

Workshop Critique for Richard Awbery

At every workshop I run, attendees can always send me images after the workshop for review. This of course allows photographers to do the appropriate post-processing on their images and also to consider what they felt worked well and where they...

Experimental Shoots: Graffiti Body Paint Part II

I talked and showed in an earlier post results from a body painting day with Lou Holmes model and Sam Day body painter and MUA.

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Model of the Day: 19/03/2026 - Carla Monaco

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Model of the Day: 26/06/2020 - Leah Axl