LensDiaries.com, Let the Stories Be Told

In today’s world of being anyone, including a photographer, we have to constantly evaluate our situation and adapt to the changing times, so I’ve launched LensDiaries.com, my new hybrid photoblog created to spread the gospel of photography as I transition away from an exhaustive, 11-plus years of conducting over 450 photography workshops and seminars to [...]

Get Photo Book Signed Now!

Well it’s almost here, Rolando Gomez’s Lighting for Glamour Photography: Techniques for Digital Photographers (Amherst Media, 2010) Due out in July, Rolando will begin shipping from his advance copies upon their arrival, on a first-purchased, first-served basis. (Limited Time Offer!) What makes this copy so special, well for one, each copy preordered will be individually [...]

Capture a Headshot Easily!

Often you’ll hear photographers or models commenting on their need for a good headshot for their portfolios and indeed, the ability to showcase your talent as a photographer of models needs to include a nice headshot.  Models, especially agency models, have comp cards to showcase their talents to potential clients and the front image of [...]

20-Photo Tips, Working With Women

A woman is a mystery most men don’t understand, and in the type of photography I do, you have to gain an insight into women before you even think about picking up the camera—and it’s not always easy, because everyone is different. However, here’s some tips for you “male” photographers that might help, most learned [...]

Phototherapy, Photographic Therapy, Therapeutic Photography–Yes, it’s Real!

For Free Photography Book on Photographic Therapy, Go here: www.freephotographybooks.com After the article, “Posing naked for a women’s magazine felt brave and shocking,” by Melissa Whitworth came out in the UK’s version of Glamour magazine, the photographic therapy (phototherapy, therapeutic photography) topic has risen in photography forums world-wide. In fact, the very next day, I [...]

Model Talent Scouts—for the Inexperienced

I love the way the Internet and technology in general has made everyone a photo editor and in some cases, a talent scout.  Yep, your mother, your big brother, your boyfriend, your girlfriend, your sister, your bartender, everyone who loves your new photos is dead-on and you should be the next Victoria Secrets Angel.  Gone [...]

The Need to Release, Models

The need for model releases are often brought up in Internet forums, and unfortunately information on model releases on the Internet are often misleading, especially on model and photographer Internet forums.  This often makes me wonder, how some photographers and models enter into shooting sessions clueless about the truth when it comes to their professions? [...]

MySpacehem Models

Obviously as a photographer in today’s techno world, one has to “work” the voluminous photography and modeling website communities out there today, and boy is there bunches! In fact, there are so many, it’s often hard to keep up with them all and when you update one, you have to update another. Making matters worse, [...]