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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Playboy model Amy Lee Summers, shot in a mix of natural light and strobes, way back in 2017, I think?

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Kafka Meridian, back in the pre-Covid days!!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need to make a set for a bunch of vampires in my studio. Now is when I wish I learnt Blender when I intended to.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That time I shot Ivy Dragon with, uh, a monster truck. As you do.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Nakita Fox, shot in HELLRAISER style in the studio. And man, I love lining things up so that they key light appears in sunglasses. I don't know what it is, but I can't resist doing it ALL the time

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I spent last weekend doing 13(!) shoots of pole fitness folks. Went a bit extra with it, doing three looks for each person. One of them was a coloured gel setup, as demonstrated here by the incredible Lucy.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Playboy model Sarah Louise, shot way back in 2015!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Studio shooting with Skylar Leigh... By the way, if you like my work, I'm also on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Aussie legend Ashton Avenue, shot during her last visit to New Zealand shores

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Cosplay phenomenon Boxstara as 2B from NIER:AUTOMATA, in a shoot in a location that - less than two years later - doesn't even really exist anymore!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Model Honey Blake, shot in a slightly different style of coloured gels look. I was trying to make it a little more pastel, basically!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Kafka Meridian, with hair and make-up by Robyn Holland. The first photo is actually on the wall in the changing room of my studio, because I love it so much!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sophia Dainty: Jedi Master Shot for a May the 4th a few years back!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Cathy-Leigh, Wellington, 2017 Holy crap, that long ago? I feel very old.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Shooting Australian model Ashton Avenue was super-fun!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It must be photo shoot time because I'm charging a hundred batteries

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Some coloured gel work (and a gobo'd pink light on the background!) with model Sophia Dainty

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I spent King's Birthday playing 8 hours of Dungeons & Dragons during which my players found out the royal family of their country were secretly excessively rich dragons sponging off humanity whilst doing nothing. No connection.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Rachel Hase doing her best Lynda Carter impression as WONDER WOMAN in a shoot from a couple of months back.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Cosplayer Grizz as Lucy from CYBERPUNK:EDGERUNNERS. We shot this in an Escape Room - it was a bit tight to get coloured lights in, but we managed it!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Had a marathon shoot at the weekend - starting at 11am and finishing as the sun went down. Here's one of the last shots of the day - Charlotte Chanel as Lara Croft

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

This seemed to be a pose I kept putting Amy Lee Summers into. Go figure.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Background paper for studios is so damn expensive, it's always a case of weighing up just HOW many shoots you'd actually do on a colour called "ultramarine"

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Happy birthday to cosplay legend Boxstara! Shot here last year as Ann from Persona 5

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Brooke, shot way back in 2015. Man, I've been doing this a while!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

A trio of phenomenal stage costumes by burlesque designer Flo Foxworthy (who is these days best known for her costume work on films such as AVATAR, GHOST IN THE SHELL, and PREDATOR: BADLANDS), modelled by Tian Gan, Sophia Dainty, and Kafka Meridian.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Shot a couple of weeks back in my studio - model Nakita Fox.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

This was an outfit made in a costume workshop taught by Nadine Jaggi. It is mostly made of...cardboard toilet rolls. The students all sat around and drank and cheered while we shot it, which was a fun time. Model is actor/director/talented person Kimre Viviers.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Nobody ever tells you that getting a photo studio space means you spend a lot of time cleaning the floor

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Shooting at sunset in Palmerston North, New Zealand with model and PhD student, Ivy Dragon #photography #bikini #swimsuit #glamourphotography

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Sophia Dainty, Palmerston North, 2021 This was part of the promo for my debut exhibition, MUSE. I really want to do another - just need to figure out a theme, shoot all the images, get them all printed, and put on the exhibition. Easy, then!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Bettie Pagan being, as she put it, "spooky". I'm sure you'd all run away...

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Finally cleared my "room full of props" into being an actual, functional, changing room for clients. I feel like a proper grown-up photographer! Almost.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

You know you haven't been shooting for a few weeks when you have one day back on it and your calves hurt...

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Flashback to shooting with Playboy model Amy Lee Summers way back in, uh, 2019? I think?

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Sarah Harris & Sophie Burnside, shot waaayy back in 2016 or so! But hey, it's summer, I needed something summery!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Throwing water over Nakita Fox in the Wellington CBD.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

"auctoritas non veritas facit legem" Model: Rachel Hase

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

That time we painted Sarah Louise with gold and glitter...

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Some classic clamshell beauty shots of classic beauty @playful-hazel.bsky.social. I have seen people do clamshell lighting with a reflector, but I prefer two lights (there's a third edgelight here) for full control over balancing the shadows.

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Shooting Lilli Grace in Upper Hutt, on a rare sunny day!

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Melbourne star Haylee Adams, shot waaaay back in 2017

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Matt Barnes Photography @mattbarnesphoto.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

When your model is a Star Trek fan and you want to work it into the shoot! (With the amazing Bettie Pagan)

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