I’m a little behind with my retouching for my lovely and amazing models from my workshops last year!! Sorry girls…I’m catching up, slowly. Here are 3 from my Sydney, Australia workshop, one each of Shereen, Kylie and Nicole.
The Queen – this one has me thinking about a whole new project!!!
Stay tuned…..
I’ve been a bad blogger! It’s been ages since I posted and I have tons of catch up to do…
First up – some fun from my recent pin-up seminar in Albany, New York!
This was a great workshop, and the attendees were all great fun!
My friend, Dino Petrocelli, opened his fantastic studio for us to play in. He’s a great photographer and specializes in bike photography.
My models this time were Bridget and Coco – both awesome fun!
Day one was shooting day, and everyone had a blast posing both girls! Day two was post-production.
Here’s the group shot of everyone, a shot of Bridget that I had in my head as soon as I saw her outfit and the tiny chair in Dino’s prop closet, and a couple of quick videos!
Next stop – Melbourne!!!
Meet Amanda – she came to Portland Pin-Ups wanting a calendar for her husband for Father’s Day – sure!!!
We had a ton of fun shooting this, and I hear he loved the calendar!!
Enjoy the video and images:
I’m often asked: “What’s it really like at one of your pin-up shoots?” – while I can give a pretty good answer, it’s always easier to see…so I’ve been working with an awesome pair of videographers, Christopher Alley and Chris Wilson who helped me put together a video of a typical shoot. Since most of my clients are having a pin-up as a gift for their husband, fiance or boyfriend – they generally don’t want to be videod and plastered all over the web! So, for this project I enlisted the help of one of my Portland Pin-Up Model Ambassadors…Mandy Apple!
For 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!!
This post travels to you from sunny California where I’m teaching one of my Pinned-Up classes. This time it’s a private workshop for an awesome company, XSiGHT USA. Run by the energetic Gail DeMarco, XSiGHT are a great bunch of guys and gals who have a wonderful studio and great business. They wanted to add pin-ups into their mix of portraits and weddings so I flew down to help them get started.
These are a few of the first shots from today’s workshop, of the very talented and lovely Darling Danika (All processed with my Pindora’s Box set)
I often receive emails from ladies who really love pin-ups, and WANT to do it, but are shy, or scared. My answer is usually ‘if this guy can do it…so can you!’
Yup – that’s a guy. He’s James Hodgins, my friend from Sudbury in Canada. He owns and runs the NoBS Photosuccess forum, and is also an awesome photographer. At the NoBS Inferno Convention in Nashville in November last year I was demonstrating my pin-up photography with live model shoots – but at the last minute one of my models became a no-show and I needed a fresh one.
Drunk at the bar, I hit on an idea. The conversation went something like this….that I remember:
Me – “Hey Hodgy, I need a model…how do you fancy popping on a dress and strutting your stuff for me?”
Hodgy (he’s Canadian) – “ah fer sure you betcha eh”
Me – “Awesome, you’re serious right? Dress and everything”
Hodgy – “ohhhhh totally, sure. Eh. You better make me look hot though. Eh”
Me – “that’ll be a stretch, but I’ll try. Make-Up?”
Hodgy – “Why not, I wear it most weekends anyway!”
Me – “Great. Let’s go shopping. What size bra are you?”
At least…that’s how *I* remember the conversation going. He remembers it a little differently….
So – if James can dress to the nines, have his make up done, and play silly for my camera – so can you! Call me now to set up YOUR pin-up session!!
(And thanks again James for being such a good sport!)
First post back at work after an awesome week in Vegas for WPPI. Among my projects while there was to talk to vendors that I use about helping with my workshops and speaking engagments, and I’m really proud to announce that Animoto will be helping me in the future! I love Animoto, their videos are dead easy to use and look killer! Here is one I produced this morning for my pin-ups!
Another recent pin-up – this time it’s the lovely Amber. She wanted a calendar for her anniversary – here are 3 of my favorites from the 12 shots we created.
Mackenzie – her man is rather keen on the VW Bus…could I incorporate that into a shot??? You betcha!!! What’s YOUR pin-up fantasy? Get in touch now to book a session for your hubby / boyfriend…or for yourself!
