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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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Model of the Day: 13/02/2025 - Zara Watson
Our daily model photograph with Zara Watson
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Post Processing for Portraits (video)
A short YouTube photography tip
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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: 12/02/2025 - Helen Claire
Our daily model photograph with Helen Claire
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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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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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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...
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