Natalia and a Curve (NSFW)

These image are from a studio shoot with Natalia. The studio has a couple of large curves, so for this set we use just the one of the curves. Lighting was a rectanglar strip soft box set off the the right hand side of the model and curve. You can see more images that I created with Natalia by clicking this: link

fine art nude photography- fine art nude photographer - featuring model Natalia creating an artistic nude  shapes on a curved wall
1/125 sec @ f-6.4 / ISO 100
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - model standing against a curve with her figure shadow falling behind and onto the curve
1/125 sec @ f-5.6 / ISO 100
fine art nude photography- fine art nude photographer - artistic nude shapes on a curved wall
1/125 sec @ f-5.6 / ISO 100
fine art nude photography- fine art nude photographer - handstand on a curved wall section
1/125 sec @ f-5.6 / ISO 100
fine art nude photography- fine art nude photographer - featuring model Natalia creating an artistic nude  shapes on a curved wall
1/125 sec @ f-6.4 / ISO 100

Camera Model: Fujifilm GFX50S
Camera Lens: GF32-64mmF4 R LM WR
Shutter speed: 1/125 sec
Aperture: f-5.6-6.4
ISO: 100

  • Lighting: Single studio light fitted with a rectangular strip soft box

July 2022 print of the Month

My pick for the July 2022 Print of the Month is entitled:

Tank Light and reflections.

The print comes from my Tank light Project Portfolio

The images chosen for this series of print offerings are pure, with no or almost no manipulation being done other than when needed, some clean up has been undertaken, other wise they are exactly the way fine art photography should be.

underwater photography - water tank photography

If the print interests you, and you would like to purchase a copy of this print please click here which should take you to my shop page. 


February 2022 Print of the Month

My pick for the February 2022 Print of the Month is entitled:

Back shapes.

The print comes from my Back shapes. Portfolio

The images chosen for this series of print offerings are pure, with no or almost no manipulation being done other than when needed, some clean up has been undertaken, other wise they are exactly the way fine art photography should be.

Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - backshape study of a dancers back shape

If the print interests you, and you would like to purchase a copy of this print please click here which should take you to my shop page. 


Ayla – Handstand (NSFW)

Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand arch with one leg vertical
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand arch
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer starting to performing a handstand arch
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand with arms flat on the floor and one leg pointed straight and the other bent
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand with arms flat on the floor and each leg angled to match each other
Artisitic nude photography - Artistic nude Photographer - dancer performing a handstand with arms flat on the floor and both legs pointed towards the light
Richard Spurdens Photography – Dance photography series

Model : Ayla

  • Lighting: Window Light
  • Model: Canon 5D Mk IV
  • Lens: EF50mm f/1.8 II
  • Shutter Speed: 1/125 second
  • Aperture: F/8.0
  • ISO Speed:100

Capturing someone performing a handstand you would think it would be easy. However you need a model that has the athletic ability to perform them. Ayla is a model with a dance background and has great athletic ability as you can see in the above images. So was idea for working with to capture these strong athletic shapes.

I worked Ayla a few times in the past. You can see some of my dance images which featuring Ayla in my Dance portfolio by clicking here.

So she was ideal to work with to capture the strong athletic form of the handstand shape.

I had arranged to work with her at the Loft studio in Rochester. Which is a small and compact studio. Worth a visit if you need a studio in that area. The studio has a window at one side that gives some really good natural light. Which worked really well for shooting these shots.


Paisley pattern tights leg shapes (NSFW)

Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer -Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Richard Spurdens Photography – Fashion nude series
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Fine Art Nude Photography - Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - Fine Art Nude - Ivory flame wearing paisley patterned tights and making strong female form shapes against the edge of a settee
Richard Spurdens Photography – fashion nude series
  • Model: Ivory Flame.
  • Location: My Studio
  • Lighting: Mixed constant and a grided studio flash.
  • Camera: Fuji XT-2
  • Lens: XF50-140mmF2.8 R LM OIS WR
  • Shutter Speed : 1/125sec @ F -5.6
  • Aperture: F /5.6
  • ISO – 200

I have worked with Ivory Flame (Holly) a number of times in the past, She is a great artist nude model, as the images show. This set of images were shot at my studio. During a session with Holly, I had purchased a pair of Paisley pattern tights and decided to use the edge of a settee to give a base shape for Holly to work against and show off the Paisley pattern tights and her figure shape. Lighting was a studio flash fitted with and striped softbox fitted grid plus an Arri contast light focused to give a strip of light coming down the background.


November Print of the Month

My pick for the November 2020 Print of the Month is entitled: The form of a straight leg raise.

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Em – Silk hanging (NSFW)

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - monochrome image of an aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts Series
Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial silks photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial silks photography - aerialist Em using hanging silks to make strong hanging shapes just using arm and feet strenght
Richard Spurdens Photography – Aerial Arts series
  • Aerialist: Em Theresa
  • Lighting: 3 x Studio flash fitted with soft boxes
  • Location: Natural Light Spaces
  • Model: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Lens: 24-70mm.
  • 1/100sec @ f /11.00. ISO100

To collaborate with Aerialists in order to capture their skills is a real challenge. Em Theresa the Aerialist featured in these images makes these poses look effortless and easy, but they are not.

It requires core strenght and concentration to hold these poses while hanging from the suspended silks several metres from the ground.

The biggest challenge for the photographer is to know when to capture the image, to show the artisty and skill that the aerialist is displaying as she holds the pose.


Elle Beth – Red Chair. NSFW

Here is a collection of 9 images featuring the model Elle Beth and a red chair. They were all shot in an old warehouse location in central Nottingham. The lighting of these images was just the available natural window light of the location.

Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer -model seated on the cushion and looking out towards the window
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monocrome image of elle beth and the red chair- laying across both arms the an arched back
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - image of model- laying across the angle of the seat
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - creating a curved figure shape to the side of the chair with one arm across the seat
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - model resting her head on her arms on the back of the chair
Richard Spurdens Photography – fine art nude series with red chair
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - model leaning across the back of the chair
Richard Spurdens Photography – fine art nude series with red chair
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - model seated on the cushion and leaning across teh arm and back wings
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer -model seated on the cushion and looking out towards the window

After scouting the location we found an old broken red chair that I felt would make a good prop for this set of images with Elle Beth. The theme of the set was around the idea of Elle finding an old lost chair, which was now in sad state of repair and the memories emotions it brought back .

Elle who I have worked with a number of times in recent years, produced a good set of different poses which I thought showed different emotion in each image in the set.

The choice of monochrome seemed to suit the subject and location. As in colour the red of the chair seem to dominate the image a bit too much in some of the shots. However the image below I kept in colour as the skin tones worked well against the red chair in this pose.

Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - colour image of elle beth and the red chair seated and stretching up to hold on of the wings

The images above were all processed in Lightroom including converting to monochrome. They were then exported into Photoshop for a few tweeks and final finishing.

  • Model: Elle Beth
  • Location: Old warehouse Nottingham
  • Lighting: Natural window light
  • Outfit: Models own
  • Camera: Fuji XT-1 fitted with a Fuji FX 18mm f2.0 prime lens

Plinth Shapes (NSFW)

Plinth shapes is a set of images that I have put together to demonstrate how you can use a simple prop to create strong Artistic Nude images. These were all lit with a single studio light fitted with a large soft box.

I have been asked a few times about what is a useful prop to use in the studio to help to create strong Artisit Nude images. One of my favourite items to work with is a rectanglar wooden posing block. I have several of these in the studio which I bring out from time to time when I working with my models.

They can be used in various way to give the model something to pose on but the emphasis has to be on them making strong shapes. You can see some more examples of my use of the posing blocks here. In the first set of images in this post I have used the block flat. So the acting as a long plinth shape. The second set of images I have placed the block at an angle. It  does require the model to be able to make strong figure shapes with their body.  I have also found that it can be
beneficial to just let the model free flow with their posing on the block. It can by very interesting to see how they work on it

Images

Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series -Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape standing on a plinth
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 5.6

Angled block Plinth shapes

Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape using a plinth at an angle
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon 50mm 1.2 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 4.0
Fine Art Nude Photography - Fine Art Nude Photographer - monochrome image showing a stong artistic nude figure shape using a plinth at an angle
Richard Spurdens Photography – artistic nude standing on a plinth series – Canon 5D mk II Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. ISO 100 1/125sec @ f / 4.0

Lighting: Profoto studio lights
Model: Fawnya Frolic (now retired)


Madame Bink 2017 shoot (NSFW)

I have worked with Madame Bink a number of times over the years that I have been shooting models and I have always come away with some great images.

When working with Ivory Flame in January of this year she mentioned that Madame Bink (Bink) was working again, so I took the oppoutunity to set up another shoot with her.

Now the last time we shot together was at the first Walters Warbrode event which was a fashion theme shoot. It was therefore good to get to work with her again specifically in the art nude genre, although we did do some edgy fashion images too.

The sets I wanted to shoot were simple in terms of lighting. These sets were lit with a single studio strobe fitted with a rectanglar soft box. The softbox was also fitted with an egg crate grid to control the light spill, which gives good light and shadow areas on the body.

I chose to use some simple props – two wooden garden chairs and a small wooden table stool. There is a simple white hat with a black band that we added for a few of these shots. So really simple but make strong images I feel.

All that was then needed was the model to make strong Artistic Nude shapes and work into the light.

The results can be seem in the images below. Binky’s strong poses in this light setup stand out and this is one of the reasons I have always liked working with her.

Artistic Nude Images

Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of a wooden chair the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of a wooden chair the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of a wooden chair the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photogrpahy – studio session with model madame bink Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of a wooden chair the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – madame bink series Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of wooden chairs the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdend Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of two wooden chairs the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of two wooden chairs the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM
Artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography - single light monchrome image of model make shapes and angles on the edge of a wooden chair the light is playing along to edges of her legs and arms to make strong highlights on those areas and deep shadows in on the rest of her figure
Richard Spurdens Photography – Canon EOS 5D Mark IV Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM

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