I am always looking for gowns that are stylish and elegant to create fashion images of either for my own fine art fashion projects or to shoot for submissions to magazines and occasionally to shoot during my master classes in fashion photography.
Bruce Smith, one of the worlds top international published fashion, celebrity portrait and beauty photographers, based in Europe mainly shooting in Paris, Bordeaux, Monaco and London. Fashion and fine art photographer gallery.
Bruce is also a fine art nudes, erotic and boudoir nudes portrait photographer that shoots his fashion, fine art and fashion nudes photography on location around the world or in studios in and around Paris, Bordeaux, Monaco and London. His favorite place to both shoot and hang out is by his Paris studio in Abbess and the coffee houses of Montmartre.
Specialist genres of fashion photography are haut couture, high fashion, bridal wear designer gowns, swim wear, lingerie, portraiture, celebrity portraits, head shots and high fashion. He has photographed many celebrities, super models and fashion models on fashion photography assignments in Paris, London, Milan, New York and all over the world.
Producing fashion shoots at many exotic locations from Alaska to Thailand for advertising campaigns, fashion magazine editorials, look books and catalogues, for fashion designers, couture designers, bridal wear designers, lingerie and swim wear designers and manufacturers.
On most, if not all of Bruce images, he uses very little if any Photoshop retouching, his objective is to get it right in camera. His secret? good skin, good model, good lighting. good photography. Brought up shooting film and never uses the term “we can fix that in post” a poor excuse for bad photography.
How it is done two:
Deconstructing Paris fashion photographer, Bruce Smith’s fashion photography lighting techniques.
How I created the fashion photography lighting technique for shooting natural looking artificial light mixed with daylight that you can not tell were lit with flash.
With the exception of Image 3, for which the flash failed to go off for this shot, so there is just the available light exposure showing,
I rather like it but the image was quite underexposed so a little grainy but still charming effect.
Flash power on all 5 heads was set on lowish output to give me a flash meter reading of F4 from the models face, the meter pointing towards the camera position and on low power so the flash recycle time is short.
