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PS Tutorial Video On How To Add Bubbles

February 22, 2010 Featured

This is a quick Photoshop Tutorial video I made to show you how to graft anything with a black background on to another image. I learned the technique when Andy Silvers mentioned it during his podcast episode.

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Model Britt
Model Zinn Star

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Exploring a Theme

January 11, 2010 Featured

Sometimes one shoot isn’t enough to really get what you wanted. You come up with a cool idea and then do it, but you know it could be better, or you could do something a little different.
The obvious solution is to shoot it again. In one sense that seems like you are shooting the same [...]

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How To Not Seem Creepy When Communicating With Models

January 4, 2010 Featured
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We talked previously about how to approach “models” in the real world and now I wanted to talk about how not to seem creepy.
This isn’t an easy to write about because what creeps a woman out varies from woman to woman and model to model. I think the models who are most successful are the [...]

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My Favorite Images 2009

December 21, 2009 Featured

At the end of every year I go back through all of my images and pick the 10 I liked the best. I’m going to be posting those images over the next 10 days or so.
It is an interesting exercise. Kind of like preparing a print portfolio.
You get a real feel for exactly what [...]

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Model Photography: What is It?

December 14, 2009 Featured

Model Photography is the focus of everything we do at Photographer and Model, so I thought I should write a little about what it is. At the most basic level, model photography is about creating images of models. There are lots of kinds of photography and we generally define them by what the subjects of [...]

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How To Approach “Models” In the Real World

December 7, 2009 Featured
Model Ellen who didn't think she was pretty in middle school

inding models offline can be a challenge. It isn’t hard to find pretty girls that you know you’d love to shoot, but getting them to shoot with you can be difficult and scary.
To me there are two main ways to go about approaching a stranger to model for you. Direct and indirect.
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Before I tell you [...]

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Don’t Fall In Love With The Models

November 30, 2009 Dance

The other night I went and saw the Revolve Dance Company and was blown away. The visuals I got are feeding future photographic endeavors and I recommend going to see dance whenever you can. I’ve said before that dancers make great models because they know how to use their body and “pose” naturally.
I noticed [...]

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Why I’m Going to Shoot For Zivity

November 23, 2009 Discussion
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We recently interviewed Cyan Banister, CEO, Founder, and Editor-in-Chief of Zivity.com and I thought I’d give my take on Zivity.
First, for those of you who don’t know what Zivity is. On one hand it is a site where you can look at serieses of images of models. The twist is people pay to subscribe and [...]

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My Shoot In Vegas

November 3, 2009 Featured

Thought I should write a follow up post to A Guide Shooting While You Are In Vegas and tell you how my shooting when while I was there.

I had a friend and former model, Maren Kate, who needed some images for her online business so I planned on shooting with her and I schedule a [...]

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Happy Anniversary P&M Blog

October 28, 2009 Featured

One year ago today, on Oct 28, 2008, I wrote the first post on what was then the Glamour Apprentice Blog.
Glamour Apprentice is dedicated to teaching you how to be a exceptional photographer of beautiful women, in all genres.
That was the first sentence written and an attempt to have one line explain what it is [...]

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