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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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A Guide To Shooting While In Las Vegas

October 20, 2009 Featured

It’s Las Vegas week here on Photographer and Model. I’m going to Las Vegas Wednesday night and staying through the weekend. This week’s guest on the podcast is Tiffany Jackson, a Las Vegas model. While I’m in Vegas I’m going to be shooting with Tiffany and another model.
hile interviewing Tiffany for the podcast I talked [...]

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Facebook Fan Page

October 9, 2009 Featured

Photographer and Model now has a Facebook fan page.
If you are on Facebook go check it out and become a fan.
Then tell all your friends about it.
Matter of fact you can tweet and stumble this post using the buttons below.
Oh, and there are pictures of Shawna in a bikini.
Facebook

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I Shoot Nudes. No Apologies Series.

September 28, 2009 Featured
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Some would blame it on my upbringing, but I think it is based on my moral code. I’m uncomfortable shooting nudes. Deciding when nudity is art and when it is porn is something I think all people struggle with. It is obvious there are both cases, but where to draw the line is the issue.
I’m [...]

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Ep 17 – Model Scarlett St Vitus

September 24, 2009 Featured
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carlett St Vitus was one of my muses and start off talking about what it means to be a muse. She’s a goth model and we talk about what that means. She talks about how modeling expresses her creativity.
She considers her self very shy and awkward and therefore [...]

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What Do You Shoot? Answer It Right.

September 23, 2009 Featured

e were having an open house at my studio and I asked a photographer, “What do you shoot?”
His answer? “Canon.”
I kind of laughed and said, “No, I meant what are your subjects.”
People, we don’t shoot cameras, we shoot landscapes, or models, or cars, or pickles.
During Frederik Van Johnson’s interview we talked about how people [...]

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One Thing That Makes You Look Creepy

September 21, 2009 Featured

This weekend was Houston Skyline Studio’s Fine Art Nude workshop and I noticed something I wanted to share.
One of the things people wanted to know in my recent survey of the Photographer and Model email list was how to NOT seem creepy to models. So this was in my head while I was observing [...]

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Ep 16 – Photog Frederick Van Johnson

September 17, 2009 Featured
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his week we talk to host of the This Week in Photography podcast Frederick Van Johnson. We start off talking techno-lust vs art. Lot’s of discussion of style and art.
He shoots a lot of different things and we ask why he shoots models. Learn Frederick’s the 3 [...]

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I’m An Amateur. No Apologies Series

September 14, 2009 Featured

I’m not in this for the money. Matter of fact my photography costs me money, it doesn’t make me money.
But that’s fine.
What is a Professional?
Von R Buzzard at his blog had a post entitled What Kind of Photographer Are You? Part 1. I think a better title would have been What is a Professional Photographer? [...]

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Ep 15 – MUA Kristin Daniell

September 10, 2009 Featured
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This week we talk not with a model or a photographer but makeup artist Kristin Daniell. We talk to her about what kind of mistakes models make with their makeup and what makes a good model.
You can learn a lot from this episode [...]

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