with Ed Verosky
I was at B&H Photo the other day and as usual the place was packed with customers buying all sorts of goodies to add to their gear. There’s supposed to be a recession going on, I thought to myself. But we photographers will seem to invest enormous amounts of money into anything that we feel [...]
I recently received a request for feedback from a photographer who has been applying some of my lighting techniques to his portraiture. He explained that learning the techniques had finally given him the confidence he needed to work with a model for the first time. And while I was impressed with his use of the [...]
Excerpt from my book, 10 Ways to Improve Your Boudoir Photography Now. Note that the images shown here are of a client in her 60′s where tasteful retouching was used to bring out the best, yet stay well within the boundaries of reality: A question that usually comes up early in consultations prior to a [...]
Over the last few months, my friend on the West Coast, JimmyD, has been working non-stop on a new eBook about Glamour Photography. He has taken his extensive knowledge and experience and finally put it into an awesome new book, Guerrilla Glamour! Jimmy is the master of super-sexy commercial-quality glamour. He’s been doing it [...]
My previous posts on nude photography talk about inspiration and influential photographers I’ve recognized from the past. But I’ve never written about the process of nude photography from a logistical or technical standpoint. It’s an idea I’ve had for an eBook, but haven’t gotten around to it yet. Perhaps a few posts on the subject [...]
This is a shot I do in about one-third of my boudoir sessions. I consider it to be a glamour/boudoir hybrid shot. Boudoir in the sense that the subject is presumably in a bed and in lingerie (sometimes topless), and Glamour because it’s essentially a broadly lighted beauty shot, rather than a more dramatically illuminated [...]
I’m proud to announce that my new eBook, 25 Amazing Boudoir Photography Techniques, is being released today! Check it out at the book link: http://www.veroskyphoto.com/boudoir-techniques-book.html This is a natural followup to my eBook, 10 Ways to Improve Your Boudoir Photography Now. In this book I’m presenting a quality list of 25 solid boudoir shot examples. [...]
Since my new ebook, 10 Ways to Improve Your Boudoir Photography NOW, was released, I’ve been getting detailed questions about my style of lighting for boudoir. Although the book isn’t an instructional on the complete techniques of portraiture lighting, there is a whole section dedicated to quick setups with limited gear. That’s where I provide [...]
Unlike standard portraiture, boudoir photographs are studies in sensuality, not in the average day-to-day look of a person. The goal of traditional portraiture tends to focus on capturing a person’s likeness, or realness. Whereas boudoir is more often focused on representing an idealized vision of a woman. A photographer’s use of color, especially overall casts [...]
