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Triplets

Added 2025-06-13 14:00:03 +0000 UTC

When you work with multiple models, there is always some group dynamic, sometimes a pecking order, and sometimes a feeling of being left out for some participants.

One of the techniques I use is to make sure everyone is touching someone else.

First, it creates a connection, both in real life and in pictures, and second, it allows the models to concentrate on physical touch instead of just posing.

I don’t want to call out anyone, but sometimes I see three models doing artful poses standing on top of a rock, but there are no coherence or reason for the pose.
They might as well have been photoshopped from different images shot in a studio.
There seems to be little reason for them being where they are or posing the way they are, because they have nothing in common (except being nude).
They don’t interact with anything around them, but pose in front of something beautiful.

This shot with Kessie, Rebecca, and Regina from a pre-COVID workshop is a good example of how little it takes.
None of them is the center of attention, and they use the sofa in different elevations to get closer together.
The pillows bulge under the models' legs, indicating that they influence the environment and are actually there.
They have something undefinable, a illustrated by a light touch that somehow seems to be a situation.
That was the starting point I set up at the workshop to show how little it takes to get started.
From there on, you can evolve the concept any way you want.