It 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.

1.2 trillion photographs are taken worldwide per year (statista.com). Before the introduction of mobile phone cameras ninety five percent of these billions of photographs where taken in horizontal format; compact cameras are ergonomically designed to be held that way. Now that eighty five percent of the population uses a smart phone to take photographs ninety five percent are vertical because that’s the way they hold it.

Out of 1.2 trillion how many created rather than taken? How many are composed, and I don’t mean just with the subject fitted in to the frame? Let’s guess at 10%, good composition is subjective anyway. So out of that billion or so how many are well composed?

Improving Your Photography

The last thing you want to be as a creative photographer is normal.

But then maybe you do? A lot of well composed, sharp, correctly exposed photographs sell. Do you need to be creative in all of your holiday photographs? Before you start learning new techniques, drooling over the latest DSLR or planning trips abroad ask yourself, Why Do I Take Photographs – Do I have a concept?

Remember – Better nude photographs are made by the photographer, not the camera.

Which Should I Learn First Composition or Technique?

Study the first and learn the other as you go along.

There is no point being a technically competent photographer with the most up to date, expensive full frame equipment if you have not got the instinct to compose a picture. Good composition can be learnt but it needs to be practiced until it become instinctive.

Have a Concept – An Idea

Dispirited? Don’t be. Of the thousands of photographs you see how many of the photographers thought about the lighting, adjusted their viewpoint, waited for the subject to move to just the right spot, went back when the weather was different?  Better nude photographs appear if you think about the image you are creating. Try and have a concept of what you want to say. Read, Take Better Nudes – Have a concept

Your concept can be based on existing art: the first image above is titled Venus Reborn and the second Homage to Magritte. In the third it is simply to show shape and form and the others to create dynamic nude portraits.

The nude is just another subject. Master techniques that allow you to take pictures when others can’t: when the subject is backlit, fast moving or against a cluttered background.

When you take a good photograph PRINT IT, frame it and exhibit it. Show it to your friends, people whose judgement you value, good photographers, artists, tutors, the person or people in it. Listen to their comments, even if they are just being polite or you disagree these are far more valuable than, ‘great capture’ or ‘brilliant,’ online

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