Dan Matthews

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Europe / United Kingdom / York

Photographer male / 44
 
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Eva Seraph / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Eva Seraph - © Dan Matthews
Eva Seraph

 
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Eva Seraph / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Eva Seraph - © Dan Matthews
Eva Seraph

 
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Keira - Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Keira - Infrared - © Dan Matthews
Keira Lavelle

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Bethany / Fashion / Beauty photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Bethany - © Dan Matthews
Bethany Black

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Loula Cherry / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Loula Cherry - © Dan Matthews

 
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High Sweden Bridge in Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

High Sweden Bridge in Infrared - © Dan Matthews

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Keira Lavelle / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Keira Lavelle - © Dan Matthews
Keira Lavelle

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Eva Seraph in Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Eva Seraph in Infrared - © Dan Matthews
Eva Seraph

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MiaBeth / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

MiaBeth - © Dan Matthews
MiaBeth

 
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Keira / Nude photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Keira - © Dan Matthews
Keira Lavelle

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Bethany in Infrared (v.2) / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Bethany in Infrared (v.2) - © Dan Matthews
Bethany Black

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Tree Bark - Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Tree Bark - Infrared - © Dan Matthews

 
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Bethany / Fashion / Beauty photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Bethany - © Dan Matthews
Bethany Black

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Bethany / Fashion / Beauty photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Bethany - © Dan Matthews
Bethany Black

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MiaBeth - Redscale / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

MiaBeth - Redscale - © Dan Matthews
MiaBeth

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Lonely Tree in Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Lonely Tree in Infrared - © Dan Matthews

Minecart in Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Minecart in Infrared - © Dan Matthews

Mine Rails - Infrared / Alternative Process photography by Photographer Dan Matthews ★6 | STRKNG

Mine Rails - Infrared - © Dan Matthews

2025-05-31 14:57 
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Participants: MiaBeth

Delta 3200 - Art Nude on high grain film

At a recent shoot I found myself shooting with lower levels of natural light, and wanting to retain the flexibility of hand holding with a decent depth of field.

For this I utilised Ilford Delta 3200, a usually very specialist film, and not one often used for smooth skin textures, due to its very noticeable grain and preference for low-light.

Overall the results came out well, but in all cases some additional contras was needed in in the final edit.

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2025-05-26 11:55 
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Participants: MiaBeth

Redscale - Harman Red 125

I recently shot my first roll of Redscale film: Harman Red 125

For those (like myself) unware of what Redscale photography is, its a practice of taking a colour film and reversing it so that the light passes through in the opposite direction then it normally would. This changes the bias towards reds and away from blues as the different layers of the film emulsion get a greater or lesser amount of light than normal. Thankfully Harman have made this easier to try by pre-rolling their Phoenix 200 film in reverse to give a second out-of-the-box Redscale option on top of the Lomography offering.

Within the larger niche of film, Redscale if a very much smaller sub-niche. Within that sub-niche, the number of people shooting art-nude is tiny. I had only found handful of reference images ahead of the shoot. Based on knowing it had a low latitude and favoured a little over exposure, I rated at 100iso and had it developed at the 125iso box speed.

As a lover of an alternative and original look, I've been very pleased with the outcomes. The Redscale offering a nice halfway between a colour and a monochrome image. In a few cases the strong directional lighting gave me some issues (the shoot was a dark room with direct and filtered sunlight through a window) but generally it exposed well of the camera meter.

It's worth noting that the images do not hold up well to editing, in almost all cases a crop is about as far as I've gone, as any attempted to tweak levels or other factors lead to some odd artifacting. However, personally I don't mind this limitation, and there is something to be said for accepting what the film gives, rather than trying to overly force a look in post production.

Would I shoot it again? 100% yes. Already 2 more rolls sit in my fridge due to its limited edition nature. Another sits in my roaming camera, being tested in day-to-day images. For my next model-centric shoot, studio light will be my objective.

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2025-04-18 12:13 
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Participants: Eva Seraph

Same but Different

I shoot a variety of formats and styles, but I don't often end up with multiple images that allow a direct contrast and comparison.

Here are three images from the same set that show infrared, digital-monochrome and digital-colour side-by-side.

As I prepare for my next shoot I'm looking to my available film stocks, and can't help by be tempted by the red scale film staring back at me.

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2024-12-18 22:35 
I / Nude / nude,figure,ruin,castle
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Participants: Keira Lavelle

Keira of the Castle

Series of images taken at a ruin in North Yorkshire (UK) this summer (Sept 2024).

Strong sunlight gave particular challenge, influencing the editing approach, but helped define the strong contrast between model and stonework.

Equipment
- Canon 6D Mk I
- Canon 70-200 F2.8 L Mk 1

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2024-11-23 17:20 
I / Nude / infrared
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Participants: Keira Lavelle

Infrared Nudes

This year I had the opportunity combine art-nudes with my landscape and fine-art infrared photography.

I had previously shot a model outside for a single set in 2023, but this had been in fading light, in a garden. Here I worked with Keira to shoot several sets in the stunning landscapes of northern England in bright early autumn sun.

Despite battling some harsh highlights and needing to keep our wits about us for dogwalkers, the shoot went very easily and delivered a good range of images that in most cases needed very little doing with them after.

For me infrared offers something like a monochrome, but somehow still different, with hints of false colours and false tones.

Shown here are the additional captures not presently in my portfolio.

Equipment: Canon 550D with a 720nm IR filter

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2025-01-10 18:43 
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Participants: Bethany Black

Wrong but right?

During a recent shoot I took the opportunity to finish off the final frames I had on a test film I was running through a recently repaired camera.

As these were the only analogue shots I was taking on the day, I missed one of the key settings and got the wrong sync speed for the flash, leaving the shutter to appear in each of the frames.

For most it cut through the model rendering the shot unusable, but for a couple of them it was just close enough to see Bethany's full face. Although I'd initially dismissed the set as having not worked, I keep coming back to these two in particular.

Perhaps its the analogue feeling of them negating the problem, perhaps its the tantalising thought of the image that could have been, perhaps the dark area works somehow; I'm not totally sure why I like them, but I do.

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2024-12-31 13:43 
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Participants: Keira Lavelle

Natural or Stylised

Today I finished editing the final set from a shoot I did in the summer.

For these last images I opted for a much more natural style, almost out-of-camera, with minimal adjustment. This contrasted with the very stylised black and white editing I've done for much of the other images from this shoot.

Personally I feel both can work, if applied to the right image, but I was curious to see if the community had a strong preference either way?

Note - I've not included any Infrared images in this comparison, as they are a different style in their own right.

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Dan Matthews


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I'm a purely hobbyist photographer who has worked with Digital, Film & Infrared.

For 2025 I'm exploring a new approach to my shooting, putting more emphasis on abstract elements and relinquishing some control to bring in a greater sense of spontaneity. Part of this is a much greater focus on shooting analogue, both with film and polaroid.

I'm also re-engaging with infrared, especially for nature based abstracts.

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