Glamour is a genre that has its roots in the pin-up and “cheesecake” photography of the 1940’s but over time evolved, I’m sure because of the influence of magazines such as Playboy, so that it now focuses on the depiction of a model [...]
Everybody has his or her take on nudity. Some models want an image that makes them look nude, but don’t want to be nude in front of the camera. Thea doesn’t mind being nude, but doesn’t want images that are explicitly nude. If you read some [...]
Good composite work requires special attention to light. The lighting on the subject must match the background with respect to color, direction, and exposure. If it doesn’t, the picture will never look believable. For example, study the [...]
You can photograph a beautiful model but if her pose is awkward, clumsy, or unattractive, the finished image justwon’t work. And when you're working with beginning models, it's even more important to develop a good understanding of posing techniques to [...]
When we all shot film, the methods for combining images were limited to double exposures (on film or paper), sandwiching (placing two slides together and re-photographing the combination), and litho masking (a darkroom technique using high contrast black and [...]
I’ve been a fan of Renoux on DeviantArt for a long time: His style of strongly emotive nude photography always appealed to me strongly. Playful, and with levels of nudity ranging from regular portraits to borderline pornography, he manages to capture the [...]
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