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Kitchen Tabletop Redux

As a continuation of yesterday's post with Georgia, the other girls wanted to join, so we invented a “plausible” scenario and played around with it a little.

Girls want to have fun, but I think CB truly enjoyed this.😉

Fast forward three days, back at the villa with the first workshop crowd. 

I set up the same set with the participants who loved it (but I mean, who wouldn’t?).

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Kitchen Tabletop Redux - BTS II

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Kitchen Tabletop Redux - BTS III

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Kitchen Tabletop

Last September in Lanzarote, the day before our workshop started, we were sitting chatting outdoors at the dining table, and I saw this gorgeous light on the wall and asked Georgia to get up on the table and do her thing, make an iPhone shot to see if it was worth shooting.I guess the images tell their own story, and also show off the exceptional posing skill of Georgia.

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Sofa sculpture

D Genevievre and her very fair skin have an ability to morph into an almost marble look when the light is right. Here’s it’s from my studio windows on an overcase day. I purposely dampened everything else to a very dark level to maintain the feeling of lightness in the skin.

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Desert respite

After traveling for 10 days through the deserts of the southwest USA, I booked a suite at Palms Place in Las Vegas. This was quite a contrast to the small motels and tents we had stayed in previously. The next morning, Roarie was heading elsewhere, but we shot a couple of quick sets in the room with a magnificent view.

As a rare occurrence, I’m using a small battery-powered flash in HSS mode (the image was shot at 1/250 sec, f/4, and my fastest sync speed is 1/160) to slightly lift th...

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Dressed in Rope

This is the first half of the rope shoot I did with Emily Moon a few months ago.
First, we did a regular Karada (Diamond Dress), as well as some standing images, and then transitioned to the booty chair.
The lamp is a large octobox with a flash on a boom.

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Bolero chain

I lit the ever-excellent Faith Starr Official with my 57” Zeppelin, used as an umbrella (indirect lamp) without a diffuser, turning it into a deep silver umbrella. There's also an extra silver reflector on the floor. 

Silver umbrellas work amazingly well for dark skin.

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Dovile From Last Year - BTS

BTS with Dovile on the runway.

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Dovile from last year.

Shot outdoors next to one of the F16 shelters near the runway.
I’m captivated by her long (wide-angle enhanced) legs in the first photo and appreciate the unusual angle.

On the second one, there are perhaps three millimeters between a working and a non-working image: had her lips been closed, I would have discarded this image outright.
But with her lips pursed, it looks enticing to me.

It has emotion and perhaps a story.

Do you agree?

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The money maker

A couple of months ago, I was asked if I wanted to shoot with some OnlyFans creators for a day, alongside another photographer, on a Time for Photos deal.

I weighed my options and decided to do it.


It turned out to be mostly a waste of time for me:

The primary shooting venue was a spanking room and a cluttered living room, making it impossible to achieve a usable, uncluttered background.

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Under the lamp light

This was a bit of an experiment, but it turned out great.
It’s lit solely by the light from the chandelier, which is why the chandelier looks a bit weird; I had to recover everything I could from pure white in Lightroom.

However, something is fascinating about shooting in available light from five 15-watt bulbs in a chandelier.

I shot them handheld with my 50mm ƒ 0.95 at full aperture, resulting in both images being slightly soft. The second image is a bit out of focus as th...

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The lightest touch


One of the things I dislike the most in retouching is removing spots.

There's no way around it, yet it still feels like wasted time.

And censoring images, renaming them to an archive number set, and adding IPTC/Metadata to the credit model typically takes 4-5 minutes, which also feels unproductive to me.

So, last month, I went into automation mode: 

I sat down and analyzed what I would like to have automated: 

  • Cloning blemishes and skin ...

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The Lightest Touch - BTS

BTS movie from making The lightest touch shoot. Check out all the F*ing mosquitoes.
Let's just say that the very much preferred one of the models' booty (and legs).

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Wiana in Bed

This miniset of Wiana serves as a precursor to something far more erotic, likely destined for discord, if you catch my drift.
And feel free let your imagination run wild with cue words like rope and clothespins - and no, she is not hanging up laundry to dry)😜😎🧨

But for now, savor the innocent look and the soft backlight from the studio windows that caresses her body.

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Ecstasy

Or so it looks, at least. And I guess that’s what’s enticing.

I’ve shot quite a bit of erotic imagery (a lot will appear here soon).

As always, you have to question what makes an image erotic and what makes it Pørn (the Ø is because you are not allowed to write the other phrase).

Explicitness in itself doesn’t do much for me. Emotion plays a large part, though: I'm intrigued if the model appears to have an experience or feels something.

So imagine this image,...

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Extacy - BTS movie

BTS from shooting Fatima at the Arsenic house in West Hollywoood.

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Loulou’s rocks

Loulou models chilling on some rocks in Kullaberg last summer.

We got this shot in about 40 min before the sun sets, and it’s pretty straightforward:
An awesome model, some rocks, and low sun = Bob’s your uncle.

Enjoy.

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Loulou's rocks - BTS movie

BTS from Loulou's rocks in Kullaberg.
Apologies for the half model in the end. I hadn't anticipated her moving that way (I originally shot this vertical format).

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Bunker Dreams

Two very windy shots of Lilith Etch at Løkken beach just before sunset. The sun was playing hide-and-seek behind a low cloud cover, and the direction of light I usually aim for was hard to find.

I have a question for you:
In the second image, I made the sky very dark (in reality, it’s almost blown out white).


I can’t determine if it’s too dark. I don’t want any attention to go to the sky, and if it’s lighter than the bunker, the viewer's eye will involuntarily ...

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Peekaboo

Kylie LeBeau is an adult actress who reached out to me the last time I was in Las Vegas and asked if I wanted to shoot with her. 

As you can see from the above, I turned her down 😝

Anyway, my only stipulation was I didn’t want to do Adult work; I wanted to keep it classy, and we did. 

It’s obvious, though, why her rear side is a valuable asset in her profession of choice.

Click the tag; more images of her are available.

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Bunker Dreams - BTS

BTS from the Bunkers at Løkken STrand in Jylland.

It was not the easiest conditions to work in, and I did a lot of (crude) video editing to make it viewable with the sun moving around. It was not the best job I've ever done.

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Guardian of the Citadel

Last summer, I rented an Airbnb for some days and took Zsan of Sweden to photograph at two of my favorite rocky spots in southern Sweden: Hovs Hallar and Kullaberg.
These images showcase Lars Vilks's artwork, Arx, in Ladonia on the northern shore of Kullaberg.

The light is direct sun on a gorgeous summer day.

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The Palm house

This spot in Lanzarote (I don't know its real name) is also a favorite among workshop participants. Its elegance is perfect for photography, and we plan to revisit it during the next two workshops in September and October. 

Feel free to join us; it will be magic!

The models in the next two Lanzarote workshops will be Wiana Model, The Endless Sinner, Georgia Brown, and Zsan of Swe...

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Pointe variations

I came across an old set I shot with Aja and fell in love with the elegance of the form, so I decided to edit a few more images.

Which of these is your favorite one, and why?
In my opinion, they all have something unique, but I do have a distinct favorite.

Light here is from a door and a window behind me, aided by a couple of large silver reflectors on the floor to increase the light.

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The clone

Here you have Anneli again (same model as yesterday), but here she’s brewing a Mini-Me (or rather Mini-Her;😅 I have no involvement except as a photographer).

The light from this setup is my 57” Zeppelin equipped with a diffuser and soft grid, modified using flags and negative fill from the opposite side to maintain clean shadows and a dark background.

I truly love photographing pregnant models; there is something unique about witnessing the substantial transformation in the...

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Knowing it

Anneli was in the studio about a year ago (click on the tag to see more from this session). Daylight streamed in through my two studio windows.
From memory, I used one curtain to diffuse the softer light, while the coolness of the scene suggested that light from a blue sky played a significant role in the overall lighting.

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Knowing It

Multicam BTS with Anneli and the mirror

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Lean Over - Multicam BTS

An 8 minute multicam BTS with CB modelling from this shoot: Much more will come from this but I'll post alongside the images once edited.

Stay tuned.

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Lean Over

This brand new set was shot with CB Modelling on my studio couch on one of those fantastic spring days when warm sunlight is streaming in through the window.
I drew my two layers of white linen curtains to diffuse the light, and because of the structure, I was blessed with some texture from the filtered sunlight.

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