Michel Style appears to be a Russian fashion outlet or at least google translate would lead me to believe so. While a lot of the fashion items on there are not to my taste, the image above and the small gallery below took my fancy because the model has both stunning hair and legs and the photographer has not only captured her as a whole very well but also lit and composed the shot in such a way as to evoke a plethora of meaning within each frame.

As a side note I also really like both those shoes and that chair, I really like antique looking simple chairs and I can just imagine one like that depicted within the above and below photos being sat in my office and while hard it would be a pleasure to sit in

“The collection for H&M is the essence of Versace. For the collaboration we’ve brought back from the archives, as well as from more recent collections, some of the icons of Versace, such as the bright prints, the Greek key and daring cuts. I can’t wait to see how H&M’s wide audience will make these pieces their own.” – Donatella Versace.

“Versace’s collection for H&M is a moment in fashion. It is full of strong pieces that stand out, with colours, prints and cuts that are clean and precise. The women’s collection is flattering and full of dresses, while the men’s collection is very sophisticated. When I think about Versace I think of iconic items. With this collection for H&M we’ve got the essence of Versace.” – Margareta van den Bosch, creative advisor at H&M.

And without further ado, the entire collection both male and female.

The above photo is of Christina Shapran at St. Petersburg’s Vaganova Ballet Academy and was taken by esteemed and critically acclaimed Fashion photographer Arthur Elgort.

Arthur Elgort was born June 8th 1940 in New York City where he currently resides in his professional capacity as a Photographer / Director. An acclaimed photographer, Arthur has been published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, American Photo, New Yorker, Dance, Aperture, London Times Magazine, Telegraph and the Economist amongst others as well as his own exhibitions, film work and book publications.

Last Friday, both myself and David from MBS Photographic took a trip to the City of London for the purpose of taking some high quality commercial HDRi photography of the many various sights in the one square mile that is known as the City of London within London. The above is one of the many HDRi photographs I took during the night and it can also be seen in slightly larger detail here on deviantart. The full sized image is a huge 413MB 32mega-pixel image at 300DPI resolution and contains extremely stunning detail! We shall be making prints available of this work very soon, so get in touch if you would be interested in purchasing one.

So what is glamour photography and how is the above photo titled “EsperancE” part of it? To put it simply there is a glamorising of something, be it the legs, the feet, the eyes or the chest, glamour photography appears to take one step closer to pornography without actually going there. In this case the models legs are most undoubtedly the most prominent feature of this shot, with the pose and composition compounding that conclusion, the pulling down of the dress is an additional nod towards pornographic traits and provides additional meaning to the connotations exuded from the rest of the frame. The black and white nature of the photo has been fantastically exposed, however with digital photography that isn’t too difficult and unfortunately you don’t get the rustic grain texturing so lovingly desired within film shots and yet so lacking within the pristine world of digital.

Personally I believe this to be a well modelled, excellently composed and nicely lit, glamour photo which has been nicely exposed in black and white. The photographer Ján Hronský has a website for you to visit and I would most certainly tell you to do so as there you will find a lot more fantastic work to enjoy!

With backgrounds that are interesting enough to add to the experience of the photo while not too busy that they detract from the subject in hand – the lingerie. With the body language that Jani is screaming through the frame, the message is clearly two part, one aimed at the men enticing them to purchase these clothes for their ladies to make their sex lives better and the other aimed at the ladies stating buy these and you will look as good as me.

Age old visual marketing is visible within all these shots however when did a little photography theory stop one enjoying the aesthetics of a good photo?

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The above photo, including those in the small gallery below, are all from the 2009 Teen Choice Awards which itself boasted over 83 million votes in total, of which Leighton won enough to grab the Best Actress in Drama within the Television category which she picked up wearing a Louis Vuitton dress, Brian Atwood “Zenith” Mary Janes, Cathy Waterman jewels and a Nina Ricci clutch.

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This is something I shall be looking into and writing about later this month.