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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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Raphaella - Natural Light and Pose (video)

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

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Post workshop image critique for Ian

This is Ian's submission for his post-workshop critique. We offer this to all attendees as it really adds value to the workshops to have the final results thoroughly analysed.

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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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Trashing the Dress - A "Dry" run

I had a trash the dress shoot coming up for a client - she wanted to be Ophelia, so I thought I really ought to have a practice session to make sure I knew what was going to work well and what I needed to take on board.

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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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Photo Images About Body Image

THINKING: We continue the theme from the previous image with body markings, but here we are carrying a different message.

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Model of the Day: 01/02/2026 - Bex Mitchell

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