This up to date presentation will show you how to create images suitable for contemporary glamour magazines with images that move beyond dated 1970's style of glamour photography of so many DVD's.

 

You will learn how to light and pose your models to get the best look. How to interact with models to capture that sexy, mischievous or enticing emotion. Models will tell you what they look for in a shoot and how they like to work.

 

You'll go through natural settings and how to make the most of your space to create images that are fresh and appealing.

 

Working with three glamourous girls in nine different sets this is an enticing and educational journey into contemporary glamour.

Nine different shoots to inspire you to create images with a difference, aimed at the art side of glamour photography you'll learn how to use simple setups and a little clever thinking to make outstanding and unique glamour images.

 

Three gorgeous professional models, nine different shoots, a full guide to studio lighting equipment and more ideas than you can shake a stick at.

Glamour is a very old word.   In its original sense it has a literally magic meaning.  To charm someone, to make some one (or thing) appealing and alluring.

 

I suppose our contemporary view of glamour goes back to the thirties and forties as film stars became “glamorous”.  As lighting, film and photography became more advanced - and our understanding of the aesthetic as well - we created “glamour“ in a modern image.

 

Of course as time has moved on, like so many things glamour has moved a little more down-market.   Away from the beautiful, aspirational, famous and rich it has now become synonymous with lads mags and soft porn.

 

While I'm not prudish about this change, I do like to have a little wit with my tit.  I hope in the following pages I can express that mix of sexuality, but with a cleverness about it.

The whole point of working within a genre is that the genre prescribes the style and final results.

 

Glamour photography should represent the subject as available, more than that, ready and willing.   The whole thing contains a sexuality and lust that should draw the viewer in.   

 

This does not need to be blatant, often a hint and tease is far more alluring than the full reveal.

 

Lastly we should go back to the roots of the word.  Our glamour subjects and locations should present a vision of wealth, fitness, beauty and happiness that the viewer can aspire to and want.