I’m about to embark on my Pin-Up-A-Looza tour with Sandy Puc – heading to a city near you. If you want to learn the secrets behind my pin-up business, then book your spot NOW!!
Head over to:
for tickets.
Archive for the ‘workshops’ Category
Pin-Up-A-Looza, coming to a city near you
September 1, 2011Announcing Pinned-Up Motor City
September 1, 2011
Ok folks. We tried to get a Detroit date for the Pin-Up-A-Looza, but it just couldn’t happen. At the same time I’ve also been putting together a date for a full on two-day workshop….and here it is! Also, this is as close to Canada as I’m getting for a while!
Motor City!
November 12th and 13th 2011
Detroit, MI
$299 per person early bird registration
($349 per person after 9/30/11)
What is Pinned-Up?
Pinned-Up is a two-day, intensive and hands-on photography and retouching workshop. Aimed at both amateur and professional photographers. However, please note that this workshop assumes that you have basic knowledge of a dSLR camera and a sound understanding of Adobe Photoshop. Pinned-Up workshops translate to all genres of photography and will benefit amateurs and professionals alike.
What will I learn?
Live Model Shoots
Hands-on Posing Instruction
Lighting Instruction
How to Promote and market Pin-Up photography
How to Create that “Pin-up” look and feel.
Hands-on Coaching, and
Unbelievably intensive Photoshop Demonstration and Training
Learn the post-production secrets from a 20+ yr retouching master
Bonus!
All registrants receive Mike Long’s Pin-Up Posing guide.
About Mike Long
Thank you for taking the time to read this far! I’ve been a photographer and retoucher for over 20 years. My passion is to create art that stimulates the mind and creates emotion. I believe that pin-ups stir the soul and they have been my focus for a number of years. I hope to transfer some of my enthusisam for them to those attending. In the last few years, pin-ups have taken me around the World and on tour across America with the amazing Sandy Puc.
Cake smash birthday portraits
April 28, 2011Or – to put it another way…happy 40th birthday to me!! Yup. In a few hours I’ll be 40 years old…hardly seems possible. Anyway, to celebrate this achievement (many thought I wouldn’t make it) I thought I’d have some fun.
While in Toronto recently to present a seminar on wedding photography at the NoBS Inferno, I asked my good friend, Kelly Scaccia, to help out with something dumb for my blog. She’s an amazing baby photographer so she was the perfect choice for a cake smash celebration! This was great fun to do, but I’d not recommend any adults doing this…least not sober! Even after a good shower I was still finding chocolate in my ears and nose hours later!!
Thanks to my awesome buddy James Hodgins for videoing the fun for me, and of course to Kelly for taking the pictures.
June Pinned-Up workshop – exciting news!
April 13, 2010For those of you that follow my pin-up work, you’ll know that my very first pin-up model was the lovely Cherry Dollface – this is the first pin-up we shot together. Not very “pin-uppy” I’ll admit, but we did end up shooting some amazing images together.
She moved to LA a couple of years ago, so we haven’t shot together since. However, I can announce today that she will be modeling for me and the students at my Pinned-Up workshop in Santa Clarita in June!!
