Garage Glamour: Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple »

Rolando Gomez is a photojournalist and editorial photographer—whose partial credits include AOL/CompuServe, Leica World, St. Martin’s Press, PARADE, People, New York Times, and Playboy—and a contributing editor for Studio. He is a Lighting Master at Photo Plus Expo (NYC), an instructor for Samy’s Digital Photography Institute in Los Angeles and a lecturer for FotoFusion and the Palm Beach Photographic Art Centre. He has taught over 130 consecutively sold-out glamour photography workshops in the past five years and is one of the original 30 Lexar Media Elite Photographers. He is the creator of www.glamour1.com and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Nude and beauty photographers can find the invaluable high-impact techniques in this exhaustively illustrated manual that covers everything from compositional tips for clothing, accessories, and poses to more technical challenges such as lighting, lens selection, and exposure, demonstrating how to produce stunning, world-class images using minimal equipment without accruing a burdening investment. Beginning with the Four S's of glamour photography (sexiness, sultriness, sensuality, and seductiveness), amateurs and professionals alike are shown new ways to achieve beautiful shots, with additional tips on working with models that include methods for accentuating assets while minimizing flaws and initiating comfortable working relationships. Photographers are also shown how to turn their hobby into a successful career, or enhance the productivity and income of an existing business by honing marketing and advertising skills and mastering the art of generating business by referral. Based on the author's popular website (www.garageglamour.com), this guide offers helpful instruction to creating glamorous, sexy images like those seen in Playboy, Maxim, and other men's magazines.

Amateur Photographer

Address[es] many of the issues presented to the glamour photographer, from basic composition to posing and lighting techniques