models from the USA

During our recent “workshop/seminar tour” I worked with several models, in this blog post some images I personally liked from these sessions. Remember that most are done during situations that are not really making it possible to shoot portfolio material to say the least. With the retouching of these images I always play around with different colors to give the models more to choose from, so there will be some color differences between images from the same set.

The first ones were done during the pre-con workshop I taught during Photoshop World in Washington DC.

I loved working with Amanda so I was glad that she also assisted me on one of the Manfrotto demos on the expo floor.

The following shot was done during the demos I did for Expoimaging demonstrating their flash bender. The funny thing is that the model is here in fact standing just a few inches in front of the background. Thanks to the flash bender products you can really control the background and make sure that the light does what you want it to do.

The following shots were done during the live shoot “motion” which I will also be teaching in Las Vegas during Photoshop World.

And some more from the Manfrotto booth.

After PSW we left for Boston (first visiting NY), the first day in Boston I had an appointment for a 1:1 workshop with the topic “glamour”, here one of these shots.

And finally some of the images from the Boston workshops. Now this workshop really turned out to be a collection of things that NEVER happened to me before.

But first off all I really want to thank the guys from the MACgroup for sending me their gear to use during the workshops, they ROCK!!!

Normally when we arrange models for a workshop we always book at least three models, in reality I’m always counting on at least one not showing up, to prevent this we will always keep in contact with the models, for Boston we had booked 3 models and one reserve model and of course a MUA. I could have felt something coming when we heard from our MUA that she could not make it 14 hours before the workshop started (she knew this for a week…. pff), luckily we found a new MUA, which cancelled 5 hours before the start of the workshop…. but we/she found another one which worked out great. However……. as mentioned before we always have contact with our models, and also in this case, the last time we spoke with one of the models was the night before the workshop so much to my surprise (and horror) at 10:00AM we were still without models…. and when we were half way into the Q&A still no contact with any of the models…. so I had to make a decision and that was to use Brendans assistant for the first part of the workshop and Brendans wife for the second part of the workshop. In the end it all worked out perfectly, the students got much more than they bargained for, working withe experienced models is great but seeing/learning how to coach models that are not models is something that can greatly benefit you, and this happened with this workshop.

So here some of my personal favorite shots from that day, and do remember this is the first time they got photographed in a setting as model.