I never had long hair, so I have no first hand experience, but girls seem to reach a point in life when they feel compelled to cut it short.
The hair of Shinrin is still pretty long, but I like to remember about this special moment in her life, during our first shooting in April 2017, when she was just moving in her Milan apartment.
I know the background is messy, but that's part of the story 😊
Easy to find, but you will wonder what may have caused this variation…
On Tuesday I was making some space on my Mac to download the new files from the latest shooting of Martina.
Whilst deleting the old files I noticed the archive of Bettie was never saved in the external drives!
Fortunately I've checked, you can never be too careful.
Now she is safely saved in multiple locations and we can still enjoy her beautiful body.
What about having two!
We got to play with some mirrors during the shooting on Tuesday afternoon.
Don’t know why, but I’m always so exited at the prospect of shooting with Martina…
Well, honestly I know why, we go along very well together and the outcome it is never disappointing, as soon as we have finished I can’t wait to work on the pictures!
During our second or third shooting together I was saying to her that if I had to pick a single model f...
2021-02-11 08:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
I keep following my models on social medias, and maybe you do the same...
Apparently Anna is now living in Paris, which is a great arrangement, if you ask me.
In Italy we say that lucky people have "culo", which means bottom, and Anna surely has a great one, in every sense!
Later today I will be shooting, from 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM, this was a last minute arrangement with Martina.
Not sure I will manage to give you a preview tomorrow, I will come back from Milan very late and time is tight, but I can tell you more about the apartment and what I'm planning to do...
Not the glamorous apartment I was hoping for, but I'm planning to take a spotlight with me, a very old and battered incandescent light lamp I have been using for the last 30 y...
2021-02-09 08:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Longer lenses require plenty of space to move around, not only in front of your subject to include the portion of body you want to show, but also in the back of your subject for a nicely blurred background.
Here is the Nikon 80-200mm f2.8 AF-D Nikkor ED working its magic on Puffa.
This lens was one of the reasons I started the Bramley Apple project.
I had bought it for the Milan Fashion Week, to document the strange people attending to the fashion kermess, but we stopped doin...
Sometimes an innocent shadow can make an ordinary photo more suggestive...
This initial sequence made with the Nikon D810 was shot in aperture mode and the camera was choosing very long exposure times, so most pictures are blurred, but the beauty of Sofia still transpire.
This is the reason why I always shoot manual and I tend to prepare the camera settings the night before (or even days before), so while shooting it is just a matter of doing small adjustments.
But this time I just started shooting on the specific day and it took a long time to realise my erro...
I assume you know I've posted the second Jiulia backstage video on VK (this picture was taken during this footage).
I'm sorry to have all my content scattered all over the web, it would be easier also for me to have everything in on place, but this is not possible. The backstage videos are a perfect example, I've tried to upload them on Vimeo and on YouTube, but has always been a complete failure, but VK accepted them first time and even the music copyright issue was a once off. A...
2021-02-05 08:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is how you can use a 180mm lens in a small apartment, using up all of the corridor to get in enough of the model...
Should I even bother?
I could just stick with the 58mm.
But I need to experiment and the results from this Nikon 180mm f2.8 ED AI-s are truly spectacular!
I will definitely take it with me again, even if it is heavy to carry around.
"Shut your cake hole", my father used to say...
I don't use the Leica M240 very much nowadays, and it is a pity, because it has still plenty to say.
Give it enough light and the old 24MP sensor is still capable of stunning results.
I guess we should shut our mouth and open our eyes now.
A few snaps of Fanny on a well hidden Milan terrace.
Dealing with the strong contrasts in these pictures has produced a faded effect that reminds about prints from the past, a look that emphasise the candid effect.
Most photographers would like to impose a particular style, tested, reliable and polished, but I prefer to keep searching for new ways to display beauty.
Because this is a research in photography, and experimenting is always the key element, more important than the final r...
When people talk about engagement on social medias, I always think about the gaze of Martina in my lens...
This was our 4th shooting together, the first time in the Brescia apartment of our friend Roberto Bottarelli, fellow photographer and great expert about women.
It was early in the morning and Martina, like every other dream, is more vivid at this time, hot and fragrant, unbelievably beautiful.
Fortunately, I always have at least one camera with me when we meet, so I...
A couch is a sacred place, from where you can enjoy television; or where you can get a model to relax and assume some sexy poses, whilst I sit or lie on the floor to get just the right prospective.
I don't have a couch in my house, because I know it would make me lazy, but mine is not a proper house for many other reasons... that's why I don't want to use it as location for my nude shootings.
Fortunately all the other houses have at least one.
I could not live without couches,...
Cara Mell is an extremely popular model on Twitter, her tag some days ago did work pretty well and her retweet made my photo one of the most engaging of all time.
In fact the whole idea of Twitter is starting to work for me, albeit I have to slow down so as not to create problems.
By attracting the attention on my profile I was blocked and asked to change my cover photo (It was not explicit at all, I had published it even on Facebook without censorship).
Soon after my actions were...
February 2018, long time ago, surely my style and my gear have evolved, but can you see any difference in the beautiful Martina?
I'm pretty sure she is still getting better and better every time we shoot together, her body is still seasoning toward perfection.
But looking back, she has always been an exceptional model, at least from when I had started working with her.
In older pictures by other photographer she still looked unripe and less graceful, but6 surely enough from 2018 she ...
My friend, patron and fellow photographer Dino was telling me he is unable to comment on Patreon.
We are in contact on many other places and for many other reasons, so it is not a huge problem for him.
But if you are experiencing the same problem, let me know and I will ask more informations to Patreon directly.
Better still, I would like Patreon to be just one aspect of my community, so feel free to reach out on ANY other social media and help me connecting the dots.
I woul...
2021-01-28 08:30:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In these days I'm desperately trying to grasp the mysteries of Twitter, because it never seemed to work for me, not even for my social media manager work...
You need some very special skills to succede on that network, and possibly I've started getting some traction, but any advise from you is welcome.
I now it is an out of date social, but it has plenty of life left into it and, most of all, it accept nudity.
So why should I waste time on the trendier Instagram or TikTok and figh...
If you ever hire Martina for a shooting, don't forget to ask her to turn around, possibly several times!
I know her eyes are mesmerising, but her bottom is a World Heritage.
Would you go on Holiday in Paris without taking at least one picture of the Tour Eiffel?
As promised yesterday, it's the turn of a brunette, and Mescaline is a great example.
I always loved blonde girls in my life, but inevitably ended up engaging brunettes... what is your personal preference?
There is a saying in Italy about brunettes that will fulfill the promises left over by blondes.
Not sure that is always the case, but I must say blond hair is very photogenic and I love the promises oozing from Kate.
I guess tomorrow is the turn of a brunette 😉
I've rarely been so busy as in these last days, I guess this is a good sign something is changing and people want to go back to their normal life...
Mind you, in 2020 I had plenty of time to develop the Bramley Apple project, so it was still a good year for me, in some respect.
I hope also your life is on the way to normal working order, we all deserve more stability.
But in the meantime, let's enjoy Martina on tiptoes in a desolate location... a good metaphor of the year we...
The more I get old, the more I appreciate the postures of young girls.
I'm still capable of getting in some strange positions with my body, but it is not as easy or elegant as it used to be...
These young ladies still show a great elasticity in every movement.
The position of Shinrin in this picture is not particularly demanding, but she still feels beautiful and harmonious, but also somewhat unripe and clumsy.
I think it is a variant of the puppy effect that make us so drawn to y...
Viktoriia was showing of her body with genuine joy, and this is something I've encountered less frequently than you might expect in my models.
She was really a natural born flasher.
I hope she comes back to Italy... and we can have another chance in a better location!
Hard to beat the natural light coming from a window, that's why I love to shoot in the Summer, even inside an apartment.
The Ikea light is on just to add drama, but the body of Martina is sculpted by the sun alone.
One of the pleasures of working with Martina is that it's easy: about once every month she sends me a message about her next trip to Milan, and she always has an apartment to be used as location.
I don't say yes every time, because I also need to work with other models,...
Yesterday's shooting was interesting.
We did not manage to get the house hot enough, but Kiki kept the temperature high.
This is just a quick extraction from the Fujifilm compact camera, with which I made some rough and nasty captures.
You might remember about this collar from a previous shooting...
I was determined to leave you this glimpse of the new girl because in the following days I will have to put aside this pretty pictures and do some serious photographic work on so...
2021-01-19 08:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Also this sequence was shot towards the end of a shooting, in the only room we had not yet explored.
I was not impressed with the result, so it was a good idea to leave this room for last, but seeing the 4 pictures in a row more than 4 years later, brings back a fond memory about what it was like to work with a very young Puffa.
Today, in the afternoon, I'm shooting for the first time in 2021, with a brand new model.
I hope I can give you a preview already in the next post.
Wai...
Posing for 3 hours can be quite tiring, fortunately some poses allow for a moment of rest.
This is a picture taken during the last minutes of une of our shootings in Brescia.
Pity this house did not offer a great variety of props, but we did manage to set up an impressive metal restrain for C.
I couldn't imagine this chain to be very comfortable (it was also a cold day outside), and I have abandoned the idea after this shooting, but C. was very patient.
Do you think it is time to go back experimenting with chains? Do you miss them?