Date: 2/28 & 3/1/2009
Venue: Atlanta Mansion (Saturday, or Sunday, or Both!) Each workshops is a separate workshop, though you have the option to purchase both at a discount, see below!)
Details: First Come, First Serve– New!  Saturday or Sunday or both Mansion!  Only 12 photographers, with SIX beautiful models at a former Hollywood A-list, actresses mansion estate.  Filled with over 10-years of CBS, hit-show memorabilia, this is our fifth Mansion shoot–always a sell-out with top models!  Act now, price will go up!  New models too!

It’s back! Rolando’s "Glamour, Beauty & the Nude Plus, Mansion Special" in Atlanta, Feb. 28th or March 1st, 2009, a Saturday or Sunday or both, it’s your option. These are one-day workshops (option to purchase two-days below). Each special one-day workshop (one held each day, though you have the option to purchase both days) are in a celebrity mansion, over 7,000 sq. ft. that once belonged to a famous television personality!   We’ll give you the experience of over 300-plus workshops since 2002, all sell-outs!.  Normally special workshops sell-out weeks in advance, and these special workshops are not as common as other workshops–this is your chance–sign-up now!  Never will there be more than two photographers for each model!  Plenty of shooting time!  Make-up and hair is provided for the models too with a professional stylist!

Rolando Gomez, with almost 30 years as a professional photographer, provides this special workshop in one day at a private mansion.  We’ll shoot indoors and weather permitting, outdoors too!  Meet some of the models and more, found in his book Garage Glamour: Digital Nude and Beauty Photography Made Simple and his second book, Rolando Gomez’s Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images  Some of the models at this workshop may also appear in his latest book, Rolando Gomez’s Posing Techinques for Glamour Photography. You can always get your books signed and/or purchased at these workshops!
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How It Was Done

Coming soon, in this section, I’ll be adding a photo from my portfolios, at random, and how it was done. This section, will eventually include, not only the finished photo, but how it was done, from the lighting set-up, the rigors, challenges, and the experience. So stay-tuned, as we continue to revamp the site for your enjoyable experience.

Framing Industry Conspiracy

I’ve lectured and taught photography to thousands of people over the past decade with over 250 workshops and seminars around the world and often people tell me, or I see it when they are shooting while “chimping” with their LCD screen, how they leave room for cropping their images to make the photo fit a matte and/or picture frame.  Obviously this is a problem more inherent to the United States, not for Europe.

My first thought is why? My second thought is you obviously have never worked with a photo editor for publication. My last thought is you probably bought your camera based on mega-pixel hype, or on the Jones’s standard, I have more mega-pixels than you.

Let’s look at the why part first. We’re a society that tends to be programmed as we grow up in life. Most of use grew up with (in inches) 11×14’s, 8×10’s, 5×7’s and the 3 1/2 x 5’s, the latter made famous by the Noritsu one-hour mini-lab explosion of the 1980’s. Though the 3 1/2×5’s graduated to 4×6’s, our problems with mandatory societal-cropping (think frames, mattes and photo albums) still didn’t end with our 35mm format cameras. Part of the non-ending I base on what I like to call, “the framing industry conspiracy theory” to sell us mattes with our frames. And to ground my theory, let’s look how it all developed, no pun intended, or the second part of obviously you’ve never worked with photo editors or editors before. [Read more]