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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.
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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.
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Voyeur
THINKING: I often work to conceptual series. This image is from a series I title in my head "Voyeurism".
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Texture Contrasts
THINKING: Stairs can be great places to shoot because they give the model so many posing opportunities.
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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.
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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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Strong Backgrounds
THINKING: This image was shot on location in a night club. There were many spaces with interesting decoration around the club.
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Stripes
THINKING: In general we try to avoid stripes in portraits, because stripes can so dominate an image.
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Softness
THINKING: To create an image of softness (rather than a soft, out of focus image) you need to relate a number of features of the image.
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Simplicity
THINKING: A shot seen so many times. Why do variations of this image have such appeal? Because of its absolute simplicity.
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