Mike Crawley is an amateur photographer living in Hertfordshire, England. He went to Leeds and Manchester Universities to study chemistry and started working as a chemist for Kodak, Ltd in 1976. Mike has always been interested in photography but didn’t take much interest in shooting people until 1988 when he attended some local photography classes. The portrait sessions were a revelation to him, and this led to his current passion for photographing beautiful women.

Fast forward to the new millennium and Mike Crawley is now engaged in exhibiting his work at galleries throughout the United Kingdom as well as in Europe. Mike sells prints and has images in several traditional picture libraries and agencies such as the Akehurst Bureau and the online library Alamy.com. He's also had several images and articles published in various magazines including Practical Photography, Amateur Photographer, Photo Answers and PIC. A recent publication, The Mammoth Book of Erotic Photography, from Robinson of London contains a selection of Mike’s images. And presently he is writing and illustrating a book commissioned by David & Charles Limited called Photographing the Nude - this will contain around 200 of his photographs and is due to be published later this year.

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 Photographing the Nude

Photographing the Nude, by Mike Crawley will be available in October 2002, ISBN: 0 7153 1302 9, published by David & Charles , 279 x 216mm , 160 pages, £19.99. The book features 190 of Mike's images, including many of those previewed on the Photofrenetic website and also gives a host of hints and tips on creating fine art, classical and glamour nude images. The seven chapters cover topics such as equipment, how to find models and locations, lighting and metering, basic poses, creative imagery, darkroom know-how and digitising the nude. The book will be distributed in the USA by FW Publications

You can it order here

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