Contrast

THINKING: On a wet and cloudy day I wanted to create an image about basking in the sun. The classic photographer's problem - an image in mind and weather that won't co-operate.

tunnel pose shining model gives Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Constrained Spaces

THINKING: If you keep plonking your models in front a plain photo backdrop - just like 99% of all other photographs - how do you hope to create something different?

screen zara pose music model Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Breaking the Pose

THINKING: You can't ask a model to pose "gay abandon". This just would not work. Instead you must create a setting in which the model can freely move and express that moment.

pose papers motion actually programming Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Body Image 4

THINKING: To finish off this short segment I want to mention briefly the media and its relationship with body image.

Water

THINKING: When shooting water you really need to consider how you want the water to be represented for the particular concept you have in mind.

shirt vulnerable style raphaella partner Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

How to make a model look vulnerable

THINKING: A girl in a shirt is always a great image. There is something about bare legs below the shirt that are sexy.

series model undressing slow striptease Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Voyeur

THINKING: I often work to conceptual series. This image is from a series I title in my head "Voyeurism".

camera texture stairs marble somewhere Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Texture Contrasts

THINKING: Stairs can be great places to shoot because they give the model so many posing opportunities.

artemis typewriter tilt props pose Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Telling a Story

THINKING: I strongly favour what I call the "film direction" method of posing. That is I give the model a story and a scene and let them act into it.

elle lines important symmetrical location Simon Q. Walden, FilmPhotoAcademy.com, sqw, FilmPhoto, photography

Symmetry

THINKING: This location looks very busy in the final image - but on arrival there was even more stuff spread around than you see now!

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