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How to create your own shadow system and how to work it in your images.
Casting shadows across your subject sounds so easy, but in practice turns out to be much harder than you would think. Creating a nice, sharp crisp shadow relies on two things: firstly getting the object creating the shadow as close to the subjec...
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Do you know how to use your sofa for glamour photography?
The great thing about photographs is you can pair them down to real basics and no-one questions their lack of reality.
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Finger paints are not just for kids - you should get some too!
Children's finger paints - definitely washable! Four colours, very primary, very dramatic. One naked model. One grungy background. Can we make the model look like the background?
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How a couple of gallons of milk and a lot of patience makes you a dress
Creating a milk dress is a combination of multiple shots of milk being poured or thrown at your willing (!) model and a lot of painstaking photoshop work.
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How a $10 leaky hose pipe can make a $1000 photograph
Creating a good rain effect in a studio photograph is much harder than you would think. As human beings we are so used to seeing rain as something in motion, yet photography wants to freeze it.
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How I Learned to Love the Giant Sock!
OK, I know this is a nude shot that doesn't actually contain any nudity, but the implications of the figure through the cloth are very exciting. This is an exaggerated form of abstracting the body into shapes, but because it hides as well as reve...
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How to make a startling photo with this simple camera trick
Glued to the wall through her waistcoat and left hanging there. Lighting Diagram Even lighting with an emphasis to the top of the image.
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How to use a smoke machine to create new photo backgrounds
Smoke can be used as quite a delicate part of an image. In this case I've used smoke to create an interesting, but not overpowering, backdrop for Carla.
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26 Naked Women in one picture
Some photographers can call upon hundreds of models to create this kind of shot. Most of us don't have that kind of budget and/or that many willing friends.
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Do you know what you get when you put somebody inside your lightbox?
For this shoot I've placed Suzanne inside a high key backdrop lightbox. But, you could use any white diffusion material as long as it is held securely at the top and bottom (a weighted light stand could be easily used).
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