Pin-up photography

A pin-up girl, also known as a pin-up model, is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as popular culture.

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 […]

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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 […]

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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: […]

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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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Pinup a Simple Set

February 18, 2009 Pinup

Pinup doesn’t have to be complicated, matter of fact it can be very simple. I normally shoot on just a white background. But for this shoot I got out the red seamless. Then you take a simple French Maid outfit and a chair. Stockings help too… MUA: Kimberly Boenker Model: Erica Kelly

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Pinup Makeup with Erica

February 17, 2009 Pinup

Makeup and hair is one of the key elements of Pinup photography. Matter of fact, since you can do nude pinup photography, makeup and hair can be the whole thing. You give a model a retro hair style and retro makeup and you’ve got a pinup image, even if she’s not wearing anything else. Here’s […]

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