Photo Shoot: LouLou

Some nude work from my shoot with Lou. I had a real hard time filtering this set down to half a dozen images for the blog.

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AOP part 35: Negative Space

In general I think Robert Capa's advice, "if your pictures are not strong enough, you are not close enough", is pretty good.

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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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Sammie H - Mirror Shot (video)

"Nudes Deconstructed" - a short YouTube video discussion of an image.

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AOP part 34: Avoiding the Obvious

Now with a big post like this right in the shot it would be so tempting to do the obvious and use it for some pole dancing type shots.

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AOP part 33: DoubleTrouble

Just a quick aside, I've been involved with judging photo competitions and exhibitions for years. If you give your image a clever title, I can guarantee that us judges have heard it before.

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AOP part 32: Striking

And now we have the exact opposite. I have increased the saturation of key elements and pushed the contrast at the extremes as far as I can safely go.