From the monthly archives:

February 2009

Baby Blue Pinup

February 28, 2009 Pinup

This image is part of a shoot with model Kimberly Boenker. A video of this shoot is part of the Practical Pinup Online Workshop.
Another image, another look for Kimberly. This is one of my favorites.
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Pinup Salute

February 27, 2009 Pinup

This image is part of a shoot with model Kimberly Boenker. A video of this shoot is part of the Practical Pinup Online Workshop.
She had this military outfit, a classic pinup prop. The salute just sells the whole thing.
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Japanese Pinup With Kimberly 2

February 25, 2009 Pinup

This image is part of a shoot with model Kimberly Boenker. A video of this shoot is part of the Practical Pinup Online Workshop.
This pose is closer to Kimberly’s original concept.
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Japanese Pinup With Kimberly

February 24, 2009 Pinup

This image is part of a shoot with model Kimberly Boenker. A video of this shoot is part of the Practical Pinup Online Workshop.
I wasn’t sure I had it in me. I don’t normally do a lot of photoshop magic. I clean up skin, (without blurring), do some sharpening, color correction, and that’s about it. [...]

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Practical Pinup Online Workshop Excerpt

February 23, 2009 Instruction

This is an excerpt from the ebook that is part of the Practical Pinup Online Workshop. The ebook is a highly edited transcript of the video lecture from my $300 a person pinup workshop. To get information about the three stages of Pinup, go to the Practical Pinup Online Workshop page.

The Three Stages of Producing [...]

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The Dip and Photography

February 22, 2009 Discussion

I recently listened to the audio book of Seth Godin’s The Dip from iTunes and I couldn’t help but apply what it says to photography.

Basically the dip is that part of any endeavor where the going gets tough and people quit. In business it is when the market rejects you, or you have technical hurdles, [...]

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Pin-up Photography Medical

February 22, 2009 Pinup

This was the image I was going for the whole shoot. It was suppose to be like a classic image done with an X-ray, but I didn’t have an x-ray. I did have an MRI of my wife’s brain, which we used in some images, but none of them worked as well as this.
MUA: Kimberly [...]

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Pin-up Photography Horizontal

February 21, 2009 Pinup

Back to just the chair with Erica forming the diagonal of the image.
MUA: Kimberly Boenker
Model: Erica Kelly

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Pin-up Photography Classic Pose

February 20, 2009 Pinup

For some reasons you see this legs in the air pose a lot in pinup. Erica does it here well.
MUA: Kimberly Boenker
Model: Erica Kelly

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Pinup Photography a Simple Set and Prop

February 19, 2009 Pinup

OK, if a single chair is a simple set, what about letting the maid become a waitress?
Here we added a table, and gave her a tray and soda glass.
MUA: Kimberly Boenker
Model: Erica Kelly

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