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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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What Makes You The Photographer Of An Image?

January 19, 2010 Discussion

Is the person who clicks the shutter the photographer of an image?

I always kind of thought so, until I took this image of Shawna and I. I set up the lights. I posed us. But my wife clicked the image. I even told her how to compose it. But since I’m in it I couldn’t [...]

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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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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.
“Model”
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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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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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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