Creating tasteful and beautiful nudes is a process that takes more than it looks. Selling sex is always easy, but portraying strength and character is the real task for these shots. There’s a thin line between being sexy with class and going overboard with the sensuality. This line is crossed when you lose the subject’s personality and focus a bit too much on the provocative nature of the photo. Here I let the subject be themselves, didn’t ever overdirect their facial expressions. Let their eyes do the talking. The main focus was depicting the body in a elegant, sophisticated espression, without being too revealing. With this in mind the photos came to life and we were able to contort the body and perspective to achieve what we were going for.
Being able to make it comfortable for the model and for yourself as well is the most important part of the whole shoot. If your subject is not completely comfortable it will come off clearly through the photos. Fortunately my muse for this shoot was my beautiful girlfriend, Aitana. We still made sure we talked about what we were going for, and how to go about it days before. This way, we both had an idea of where to start the day of the shoot before we allowed ourselves to go with the flow. This shoot helped push me into being more comfortable working with minimal props; in this case, just the human body. I look forward to more projects that push me beyond my limits.