I heard a podcast the other day about working memory, and it reminded me of several cases during workshops where someone didn’t think through the best sequence (which is what working memory is al...
2025-01-28 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The first time I shot with Roarie, we did some location and studio shots, which are among the ones we created.
I still love the first studio shot; the streak of sun gives it an edge, whereas ...
2025-01-27 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
After booking Zsan for the private Light workshop (will be published in a few days along with light setup), I decided to get back in the studio again and personally get a bit more time to shoot scu...
2025-01-26 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Also, from the 6-day Solo Studio Light workshop I did in Early December, Zsan in a setup to make sculptural images.
Sculpture can be many things, but in this setup, I aimed to make her mimic ...
2025-01-26 15:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Cassie is doing her mountain goat impersonation 😅
2025-01-25 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
In early summer last year, I persuaded Cassie to come with me to Kullaberg, Sweden, to shoot in the nature there.
I’ve previously published a set with her from that trip, but I’m sure you...
Some years ago, I rented a studio apartment at Stay CPH to conduct a workshop with Nonokollar, or Naomi Kappel, as she was then known.
They had these almost square sofas, and I had the idea o...
2025-01-24 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The exquisite Emily Moon is doing her best to brighten my Birthday - and your day.
2025-01-23 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Or is it Moons, in plural?
One thing I do know is it’s Emily on my Chesterfield, and she does it justice.
Natural light from a window, with a couple of flags to remove window light wh...
2025-01-23 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This, with Mona, is from one of the first workshops I set up teaching art nude in photography around 10 years ago.
In this particular workshop, we had 12 people (and four mod...
2025-01-22 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m not a fan of pantyhose, regardless of type, and I think it’s mostly because I find the band on the stomach weird.
Dharma wanted to shoot in these fishnets, understood my reluctance, a...
2025-01-21 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Backlight
These two images from the archives, with Carocalossi and Rosa Brighid respectively, share one property:
It’s almost identical light on both.
Try to rotate the second p...
2025-01-20 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
This model, with her fair skin and blond hair, has the look of an angel, but conversely, she also has an exhibitionistic streak and few inhibitions.
Here she’s posing on my Eames Cha...
2025-01-19 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Depani Malika has an intriguing look.
And I don’t just mean her boobs; there is something about her face and ability to convey emotion that hits home with me.
Unfortunately, she’s a...
2025-01-18 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I'll freely admit I have a weakness for dark skin:
With just a bit of semi-hard light, the lushness and tonality pop out, to a degree impossible with fairer skin.
The light on a...
2025-01-17 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Some 6 weeks ago, I did a 6-day 1:1 studio light workshop.
The cool thing about having so much time to work with something is that it allowed us to go into more specialty lig...
2025-01-16 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
For this Film Noir look I set up a large Fresnel Spot a bit high and to the far left of the camera.
The Fresnel creates a narrow beam of light with a gradual falloff, which will vignette the ...
2025-01-16 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
27 min BTS from Shooting Celia on the front end of one of the F16 shelters (you can see Georgia Brown on the back end if you scroll back two days).
2025-01-15 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Celia looking awesome and doing a bit of yoga against the front of an F16 shelter.
As you can see, if you watch the BTS movie, I removed the oil marks from the steel in Photoshop as it divert...
2025-01-15 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I shot this small set a year ago with Clara Sinclar in a small cabin.
I instigated the first image (booty).
Clara had an idea to sit on the kitchen table, which became the first two imag...
Clara Sinclair in the kitchen (not cooking).
2025-01-14 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Georgia playing Hide and seek on an old F16 shelter.
2025-01-13 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve previously shot Celia on top of one of these old Air Force shelters built for F16 fighter jets. Search for “Celia” or “shelter” for more information on the structure.
This time...
2025-01-13 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Minimal retouching was done on this.
It was one of those scenes where the lighting was perfect, so our only job was to create the best possible shapes and angle Wiana’s body for optimum light...
Kory Dark poses in a bit of freestyle ballet in a space that is, frankly, too small for her moves.
It’s not exactly art, but they have one saving grace other than the light:
This was ...
2025-01-11 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Daniella Carter is in a bit of natural sunlight from a setting of sun streaming through my studio windows.
I believe I had a couple of Styrofoam boards on the left-hand side to avoid some of ...
2025-01-10 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Two images of The Endless Sinner that, for whatever reason, got left out.
These are two excellent examples of an amazing model's ability to project emotion enticingly and mak...
2025-01-09 15:00:08 +0000 UTC View Post
The light on Herodiade is not ideal as it’s coming from a very high angle, so I ensured she arched her back a little and lifted her chin to avoid the jawline creating a massive shadow on the brea...
2025-01-08 15:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
One minute.
One is all you need when working with a pro like Herodiade, as you'll see here.
2025-01-08 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post