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Nausicaa – fishnets and leather

A chance came up to work with Nausicaa at the Boardroom studio in Derby. A cool studio location to work in.

Elena aka Nausicaa is based in Central London so when I spotted that she was going to be in Derby, I arranged to work with her. We had a productive shoot and below are a set of images from the first setup.

The lighting set up I chose was a single constant light which I reflected back towards the model with three mirrors. Which gave interesting light pattern shadows behind the model.

As I was shooting in monochrome. The styling of this set Elena chose the fishnets and a black body to go with the leather jacket. Hence the title fishnets and leather.

Camera : Fujifilm GFX 50S II
Lens: Fujifilm GF110mmF2 R LM WR
Shutter Speed: 1/60 sec,
Aperture: f-2.8 / ISO 400,
Lighting – reflected light

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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.

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September 2021 print of the month

My pick for the September 2021 Print of the Month is entitled: Hamish leaping shapes II.

For this print of the month I chose to work up an image from a studio shoot with male dancer Hamish

The image was shot at the natural light studio at Weedon Bec.

Hamish is a pro ballet dancer and works out of Birmingham

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.

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August 2021 Print of the Month

My pick for the August 2021 Print of the Month is entitled: Sissonne

For this print of the month I chose to work up an image from a studio shoot with the dancer Hamish

The image was shot in a dance studio using studio lights to freeze the dancers action.

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.

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Pippa Doll-White shirt White light-(NSFW)

This set of images features the model Pippa Doll. They were taken at my studio just using natural window light. The main light was high key and was coming from behind the model and was flooding the area. I placed a couple of white reflectors either side of Pippa to reflect the light back to her figure. A really simple setup which gave good high key image results.

Model: PippaDoll
Lighting: High Key back lighting
Camera: EOS 5D Mark IV
Lens: EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM
Focal lenght: 125mm
Aperture: F2.8
Shutter speed: 1/40 sec
ISO: 100
Outfits: Men’s white shirt

The camera was set on a tripod as I was using a slow shutter speed, so it needed to be supported.

Processed in Photoshop with a slight white toning added to give a slightly warmer feel to the mood

I have worked with Pippa Doll a number of times as she is also a dancer and you can see some of the freeform shapes I caputred when working with her as a dancer by clicking on this link

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July Print of the Month

My pick for the July 2021 Print of the Month is entitled: Mischkah big door figure shapes

For this print of the month I chose to work up an image from a location shoot with the artistic nude Model Mischkah

The image was shot on location in the UK.

artistic nude photographer - artistic nude photography -monochrome image of model standing on one foot in front two large doror she is holding the hasp of the lock to help her balance as she raised her front leg to make a triangel shape and her other arm is reach to the lhs to create a strong figure shape

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May 2021 Print of the Month

My pick for the May 2021 Print of the Month is entitled: Leap of Faith

For this print of the month I chose to work up an image from a studio shoot with the Ballerina and model Jade Wallace.

Shot using a single studio flash fitted with a large softbox

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20 in 2020

2020 a challenging year

Well, what a different and challenging year 2020 has been.

None of us have been unaffected in some way by this global pandemic. Little did we know what was coming in the early part of the year. Shoots and travel were booked and then slowly they were all cancelled as the lockdown came into being across the world.

For all creatives this has been an incredibly challenging time.

Fortunately some enterprising people saw an opportunity to use technology and the web to enable remote shooting and thus image making could take place. With me at home and the models in another part of the world, this was a way to keep producing images during the periods of lockdown.

This certainly enabled me to work with creatives in other countries which would not have been possible in normal times. A few of the images selected here were shot remotely with models/dancers as far away as Denmark. When the restrictions eased mid year, some social distance studio work did take place.

I think I have learnt a little bit about myself during this time. I am more interested in the engagement with people and creatives, then the popularity of my photographs. If people like my work then that is fine, but I am not interested in creating images to be popular.

That would compromise my creativity and my style of image making. I have certainly found a calmness in creating images that I like and not being driven to follow the trend to be popular.

As is often said “Art mirrors life” and aesthetic output reflects on us as people. The twenty images I have selected here are ones where I felt strong connections with the creatives I was working with and reflect my style and values.

Thanks to all the creatives I managed to work with this year and lets hope that 2021 brings a return to a more normal artistic environment.

fashion photography - fashion photographer -model in her leather jacket leaning against the wall looking at the viewer

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model in her leather jacket looking directly into the camera

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model seated on a chair wearing a black body and black unlaced walking boots

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model laying back on a chair wearing a black body and black unlaced walking boots

Dance Photographer - Dance photography -dancers poppyseed and jasmin who is holding a handstand with her legs at ninety degress and the second is holding her in balance

Dance Photographer - Dance photography - dancers poppyseed and jasmin one laying on her back holding the other on her feet above her

Dance Photographer - Dance Photography - monochrome image of dancer Elesha in mid air with front leg bent at ninty degrees and the back leg pointing down her left arm is pointing straight to the right of the image

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model wearing torn jeans caught in mid air pointing out to the side of the her body

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer -model wearing torn jeans doing a leg kick towards the camera

Dance Photographer - Dance Photography - dancer her front leg bent and held on poinet

Dance Photographer - Dance Photography - dancer on a single pointe and has her backleg up and angled

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial hoop photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial hoop photography - aerialist sitting inside her aerial hoop holding position with feet and back

Aerial Arts photographer - Aerial hoop photographer - Aerial Arts photography - Aerial hoop photography - aerialist hanging from her hoop with her kness as the anchore

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model seated side on looking to her left into the light with her jumper off her shoulder.

Portait Photography - Portrait Photographer - head and shoulders shot with model wear a spiky necklesss

Portait Photography - Portrait Photographer - head shot from the remote shoot with Zoi

Fashion Photography - Fashion Photographer - model wearing a black leather skirt with attitude

Dance Photographer - Dance photography - dancer making shapes against the wall lit from the side

Models/ Dancers: Carla Monaco, Riona Neve, Poppyseed Dancer & Jasmin, Elesha Eden, Natalia, BOou, Ariel Taylor, Amie Boulton, Zoi, Erica Mulkern.

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Paisley pattern tights leg shapes (NSFW)

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.

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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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