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Astonishing nude model in awesome outdoors photo shoot
to do it – I’m not good enough yet, I’ll be too shy, it’ll be a bad experience, I don’t have the time to focus on it… Eventually I ran out of excuses, and the day came. My first commercial nude model shoot. Equal parts anxious and excited, I struggled to sleep the night before. (It also turns out I was coming down with a pretty hefty cold. I guess that didn’t help.)
Since I started shooting nudes, I have been trying to shoot the nude body as an extension of creating portraits. As a way of giving the nude body expression by pointing out the character of my model.
When I shoot portraits, I usually combine an “Inner Core” session with shooting conventional portraits or nude portraits. This means that I start a photo session by asking my model to do an activity that gets her or him as closely as possible to their feelings of that very moment. This can be by doing an activity like dancing, yoga, or just by sensing what kind of feelings my model can discover inside in that very moment. Following these feelings I start taking pictures with long exposure times.
As much as I like Johns work and the model is beautiful, the key to great images is having a great location and the right light. All the rest that is mentioned is something every nude photographer do as standard. Someone mentioned feed the model, yes that is true if you are keeping them over a 3 hour period, I always provide small fruits such as grapes, strawberries, oranges and etc pus water. If they are shooting the entire day then there is breaks per hour, lunch and after shoot meal. I do however wish that when someone is giving instructions/tips that we get past the beginner stage, show us the advanced stuff.
