It is a common misconception that better technique, better equipment or luck will help you take better photographs of nudes. It won’t, but good ideas will.
How to Photograph Nudes
How to photograph nudes
The technical stuff. Including which camera to use, lighting, working in the studio and on location.
For more inspiration try Thinking About It and my Portfolios
Nude Photography Composition
How to Photograph NudesImprove your nude and glamour photographs by being aware of composition. Composing nude photographs is no more difficult than other subjects.
The basics are explained in Beginners Guide to Photography Composition. This article looks at their application to the nude.
Writing With Light – Nude photography lighting
Glamour Photography, How to Photograph NudesThe word photography means painting, drawing or writing with light. It is impossible to make a photograph without light. The quality of your nude photography lighting depends on three things, the direction, intensity and quality of the light falling on and then reflected by your subject.
Creating The Scrap Yard Nudes Calendar
Getting Published, Glamour Photography, How to Photograph NudesPhotographing nude women in a scrap yard full of bits of sharp, oily metal. Not easy but the shoots produced some great pictures.
Photographing Nudes – A Different Point of View
How to Photograph Nudes, Thinking About Nude PhotographyMillions of photos are taken from about five feet eight inches (1.75 m) above the ground because that’s the average persons eye line. Whether photographing fine art nudes, boudoir or glamour nudes it pays to look for a different point of view.
How To Take Better Nude Photographs
How to Photograph Nudes, Thinking About Nude PhotographyIt is easy to take better nude photographs. Anyone, even the best at something, can always get better at it. All you have to do is acquire more knowledge, practice, and maybe have a bit of inspiration.
Glamour Nudes Tips
Getting Published, Glamour Photography, How to Photograph Nudes, Modelling, PortfoliosThere’s a lot to think about when shooting commercial glamour nudes. So here’s a few glamour nude tips.
Lighting – Daylight or Artificial?
Glamour Photography, How to Photograph NudesDaylight or Artificial Light
Nature has given us a large, bright light source complete with some very handy diffusers (clouds) which is wonderful for lighting nude photographs. Unfortunately we have no control over when these diffusers appear and, although the sun is always shinning it reaches us with varying intensity.
What Camera Do I Need When Shooting Creative Nudes?
How to Photograph NudesWhat lens have you got on that?
I hate talking about gear when I am using it. As a long suffering wedding photographer I used to dread the approach of the serious looking old gentleman, scuffed brown leather cased, 50’s vintage, camera round his neck. Usually he had just been fiddling with for at least ten minutes to take one photograph of his rather overweight, and definitely bored, wife in her best hat. I knew the inevitable question was coming.
‘What sort of lens have you got on that?’
‘That’ was usually a 6×4.5 Bronica film camera. We used to use medium format cameras because no one believed you were a pro with a 35mm SLR
My reply was often a completely genuine, ‘I don’t know.’
I could see him debating as to whether to rush off and exclaim to the bride that she had booked a complete idiot to take her wedding pictures, or whether to tell me not to be such a sarcastic bugger.
One Model – One Light
Glamour Photography, How to Photograph Nudes, Nude PortraitsNude Photography with one light (and one model)
Keep it simple stupid is often pretty good advice. These photographs were taken in my studio with one light and one model. OK sometimes I used a reflector to lighten the shadows because the cameras dynamic range doesn’t match the human eye.