BEAUTY ON THE BEACH

The beach has long been a popular location for fashion and beauty shots for the sun, sea, sand and beautiful girls combine to create the perfect environment. 

The bright, spacious atmosphere of the beach also has advantages for models and photographers. It encourages an experimental spirit and wide expanses of empty sand can be used as thou they are huge stages where the model can move without restriction, expressing herself freely without restraint. Fresh air, the smell of the sea, and warm sunshine are an intoxicating mixture to which many models respond positively, putting an extra element of vitality and dynamism into fashion and glamour pictures. 

The beach is also an ideal setting for more inspired studies of the nude. The textural qualities of sand, rock and the sea can be related to the delicate texture of naked skin in a variety of ways, and the coastline is often rich in geological features that can be used to counterpoint the human figure. 

Where there are shadows cast building and trees, beach light is predictable and, if the sand is light-toned, shadows are less strident, reducing contrast in the subject. But overall contrast can be high. The difference in brightness between pale sand or best to balance the exposure for shadow skin tones. Auto-exposure camera can be misled and you should use the override mechanism or manual exposure.

 PhotoCredits: Kwaku David Photography

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