2009
08.26

This is the first time I have ever produced a blog and also the first time I’ve ever used wordpress, so a few things are new to me. In my day to day work, I use Macs like just about every professional photographer I know and the site seems to look good on every browser I have tried on a Mac.

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2009
08.26

Just a short (silent) video showing some pages from the book with lighting and models.

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2009
08.26

I guess I should mention a book which I have recently written called “How To Photograph Nudes Like A Professional” which is available for download at  http://www.nudephotopro.com. The idea to write a book came about after speaking to an old friend who is also a photographer and had recently started producing video tutorials for other photographers.

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2009
08.26

A photographer I used to assist many years ago once went on a trip to Scotland for a commercial assignment and needed to take a picture of a loch. He had an assistant with him (not me) who was fairly new and fitted a wide angle lens to the Hasselblad, but didn’t quite push it far enough to hear that clicking sound as it locked into position.

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2009
08.26

I remember a time many years ago when a rather well known fashion photographer in Milan had just taken on a new assistant (not me) and had asked him to pack away the equipment in his car. The assistant looked around and saw a rather dazzling new Alfa Romeo spyder in bright red rather like the one that Dustin Hoffman drove in his film The Graduate.

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2009
08.26

Welcome to my new photography blog. My name is Ashley Karyl and I am a professional photographer who is mainly interested in beauty, fine art nudes and glamour.

Yes in large part this blog is about photographing nudes, but I am first and foremost a photographer, so sometimes I may talk about equipment, while other times I may discuss the state of the business or tell an amusing story. I hope you will enjoy it!

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