It’s a known fact that in the world of photography, when it comes to using the sun as your main source of light, the best time of the day to shoot is at sunset or sunrise. Not only at those hours the model doesn’t risk to suffer from a heatstroke, but mainly because that golden light is soft on the skin and takes care of all the harsh shadows the afternoon sunshine creates. I personally prefer modeling at sunset as I get all day long to prep for my photo shoots. Yet in some rare occasions, an early morning shoot is the solely viable option. The reason is that sometimes the beach gets overcrowded through the day and offers absolutely no intimacy making it just impossible for me to flash my sexy assets at sunset. Another reason is that sometimes, depending on the geo location of the beach on the island, no spectacular sunset can be seen, and the sunrise becomes the only alternative. On Koh Phi Phi ilstand in Thailand, the beach was flooded from 9AM to 7PM with tourists caring mostly for drinking Leo beer and working on their suspiciously radioactive suntan! Yet, without that massive wave of people, the beach was absolutely gorgeous and certainly photoshoot material. So in this particular case, I did set up my alarm clock for 4AM for a nice 6 o’clock photo shoot… When I strolled my way down to the beach, it was still dark all around me. But something that I have come to learn from my past sunset modeling experiences is that the sunset doesn’t last very long and before you know it, the sun is already high in the sky and the harsh shadows are back. But now that I was early and all alone on the beach, I could { read more… }

CREDITS:
Photos: M.P.
Location: Thailand
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