Miss Raina Hazel (fine art nude)

I had never shot fine art nude before, and was keen to give it a go. I’ve seen the work of a few other photographers (a couple whom I know personally) in this genre, and wanted to see if I could create images comparable to their work.

Miss Raina Hazel is a model I’ve worked with a couple of times before. She lives a couple of hours north of me, and I knew she promoted herself as “body confident”, so I reached out and asked her if she was interested in doing a shoot along these lines. She immediately jumped at the opportunity.

I chose a spot roughly halfway between our two home addresses and found us a beach that was reasonably difficult to get to, which meant there was not likely to be many people around at daybreak, which was when I wanted to shoot (softer light in the hour around sunrise). And it turned out to be just like that… we got to the beach and there were 2 guys fishing at the north end, and a couple of girls who had come down for a walk. That was it. And me, Raina, and her boyfriend (acting as photographer’s assistant) at the south end of the beach. And to their credit, even people who arrived at the beach later on gave us a wide berth.

We started shooting about 30 mins before the sun cracked the horizon, which gave us some nice soft ambient light. And when the sun did eventually show itself, I had Raina’s boyfriend crack out the reflector which allowed me to balance the higher contrast light.

All in all, I’m stoked with how the images came out, and so is Raina. We aim to be doing some more shooting later in 2023.

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