Favourite Beauty Shots

Favourite Beauty Shots

I do love a good beauty shot, but it’s not an area I’ve done much work in. You need a certain type of face & really clear skin to pull it off, & with the focus being on the face it’s vital to get a great expression. I’m interested in...
Project Kitty

Project Kitty

Everybody wants to be a cat…. It’s occurred to me that many girls I know have a tendency to become cat-like at certain times, & if you give them some kitty ears they fall into character pretty quickly, so I’m going to set up a series of shoots...

How To Unpack A Model

Congratulations on ordering the Emma 3000 Deluxe Model. This model can produce excellent results if the following instructions are followed….Firstly, take the lid off the box to check if they’ve sent the right one.. Then check the model is in working...

Why We Retouch

Much is made in the media about how models are retouched in magazines. This is an important subject & I’ll return to the Size Zero debate in a future post when I’ve collected my thoughts, but for today I just want to look at why we retouch at all. Why...

How to get a Free Shoot

It always surprises me a little when I read online profiles saying “Paid work only”. Obviously we’d all like to make as much money as possible from what we do, but most of us get started because of a passion for photography (or modelling, or make-up,...

Baby Bump Shoot

As I spend much of my life trying to make people look slimmer than they are through cunning use of lighting, angles, & occasionally photoshop, it’s an entirely different challenge to celebrate a baby bump. Rachael did help quite a bit by thoughtfully putting...

Beach Photography Tips

As a companion piece to my favourite beach shots the other day, I thought I’d share some things I’ve found about shooting on beaches. I was living in Gran Canaria when I took up photography & for the first three years pretty much every shoot involved a...
Shoots – Antoine Allen

Shoots – Antoine Allen

Not too many guys come to me for shoots, so it makes an interesting change. The posing’s completely different, but tricky, it’s surprisingly hard to look like you’re not doing anything in a photo! I learned quite a bit about lighting from this shoot;...