Celtic Sparkle

Basfordhurst Cottage, or filming and photography location, as it's recently been rebranded, has quickly become one of the locations on my shortlist of northen(ish) studios/places to shoot from.

In part this is due to who Leanne is managing to attract. Irida from London was a recent visitor, and images from that shoot will appear here soon enough.

But the place is available for reasonable hire if you take a half day. As that's my preferred shoot length, anyway, and it's a 2 hour each way drive for me, anything less becomes not worth the travel time.

My time there with Cariad, in April, was a booking I'd made - ie not one of Leanne's organised "studio days".

This was the last set Cariad and I shot that day. I've been looking for different ways to shoot art nudes, as a lot of what I do is figure studies under studio lighting. Without that control, it's a lot harder to get the shadows that elevate this type of image.

In a natural light situation, the model and I will often make use of material to add an extra dimension and interest to what might otherwise be an image of a naked person.

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