Chris Nelson. Master Guide for Glamour Photography: Digital Techniques and Images. 2007

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The black seamless set has yet another variation. This time (below) we added flames for a real attention-getter. Shannon’s nickn ...

Even though Denise is lying on her back, the pose is still an S. We’ve pulled her right shoulder and right hip toward each other ...

slightly to light her body. A little of the blue background bleeds onto Tonya, but that just adds to the mood. There are many va ...

You can purchase rolls of the mylar from gardening supply or packaging businesses. Its actual design use is for either hydroponi ...

light. The angle and lack of fill light put her near side in shadow, giving us the beautiful semi-silhouette. Red Satin. There’s ...

Remember the movie American Beauty?In it, the middle-aged character played by Kevin Spacey lusts after his daughter’s girlfriend ...

Special Techniques. Mirrors. Reflections can be really cool. Often, we get two views of the face (and sometimes of the body) in ...

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The Wet Look.Using the wet look makes some of my most compelling glamour images. Made popular by Calvin Klein advertising in the ...

raphers will place this dead center, I usually place it slightly to one side—in Shannon’s case, to her right. This gave me a lit ...

the maximum sharpness on, it produces a great high-contrast image. It holds detail in the skin, even when overexposing by two st ...

T here are some backgrounds or sets that you simply can’t dupli- cate in the studio, so you and your client will have to go on l ...

My preferred flash units are Vivitar 285 and Metz 45 series, both of which I mount on a Redhawk stand that opens automatically w ...

Now, back to Photography 101. In this situation, your ambient (shade) light level will typically be about two stops less or f/5. ...

well when aimed in your subject’s direction. Tissue paper, napkins, or toilet paper will even work in a pinch. Positioning the F ...

76 MASTER GUIDE FOR GLAMOUR PHOTOGRAPHY LEFT—We posed Jennifer directly under a streetlight and set the camera to ISO 1250. I fi ...

determined her outfit, although suggestive, didn’t violate public decency standards. The incident did make the police blotter in ...

LEFT—The crossbeams made an in- teresting background for this image. Notice how Rita’s face is positioned at the X. BELOW—Katie, ...

I’m fortunate to have one that keeps a lot of older vehicles dating back to the 1930s. In our first sample image from this site, ...