Fifteen Top Tips for Taking Great Christmas Photos

1) Get In Close - it's the faces your interested in, not the shoes. Fill the frame with the face or faces.

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Model of the Day: 23/12/2025 - Chrissie

Our daily model photograph with Chrissie

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AOP part 51: The Larger Scene

In general I advise always getting closer, filling the frame with your subject. But sometimes your image is actually the larger environment and your model is only an element within it.

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Industrial Glamour

A girl all hot and sweaty from her hard work, who just happens to be wearing a bikini - what could be more natural than that?

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How To Photograph Boudoir (Video Download)

Learn about the hottest trend in photography today

 

This 2 hour 30 minute video program is for professionals and hobbyists alike who want to shoot boudoir images.

 A guide to lighting, posing and styling boudoir photography

 

This video is for professionals and amateurs alike who want to shoot boudoir images. You may already be shooting this style of work, in which case this video will give you a lot of hints and tricks for developing your skills as well as broad inspiration too.

 

I will show you how to work with sitters and put them at their ease. You will learn how to use a very small space very effectively. I will show you examples of my best-selling shots from the studio that you can simply re-create for your clients or sitters.

 

I will talk about the business of boudoir, but this is principally a video about photography and how to get the best from inexperienced subjects. Together you will create images that both of you are very happy with.

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Model of the Day: 22/12/2025 - Lou Lou

Our daily model photograph with Lou Lou

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Protecting Studio Strobes (video)

A short YouTube photography tip

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Model of the Day: 21/12/2025 - Bex Mitchell

Our daily model photograph with Bex Mitchell

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AOP part 50: Exuberance

There are two kinds of models in the world, those that can pull this kind of shot off and those that can't.

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Critique for David

David was an attendee at our recent two day workshop on fashion, nudes and portraits that we ran in conjunction with the Royal Photographic Society.

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100 Do's and Don'ts for Models

I meet and work with models at all levels of experience and I have learnt so much from them, but also realise they have so much to learn themselves.