Photographer and Model Blog

Now Offering One-On-One Training

Ron Davis — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 15:00:02 +0000

Would you like to push the easy button on shooting with a model? Would you like to have an experienced model photographer and teacher there to help you with everything from lighting to direction? Well now you can. I’m now offering One On One Master’s Classes. Here’s what you get. We’ll shoot at fotoworks studio [...]

Gallery Show

Ron Davis — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:24:34 +0000

After moving from Houston to Abilene I started looking for a way to connect with other photographers in the area and ended up joining the West Texas Photographic Society. This group has been around for decades and has monthly meetings that alternate between instruction and photography contests. They also have an annual show at the [...]

119 Kevin Connery Portfolio Review

Ron Davis — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:41:15 +0000

On this episode we review Kevin Connery’s Model Mayhem Portfolio. We also talk G.I. Joe. See Shawna as Harley Quinn. And other completely non-photography subjects.

118 Listener Questions

Ron Davis — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:10:26 +0000

(17:43) The Pod people are revealed in this episode, you can actually watch Shawna and Ron do their podcasting thing in this video episode. We answer your questions this week. Listener Question: “How do you know when a project is finished? Not a single shoot, where the goal is usually clear, but a collective, like [...]

How To Make Ray Gun Beams

Ron Davis — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:13:03 +0000

I recently did a Space Girl photoshoot with model Annabell Bella and thought I’d share a Photoshop technique that I used. It was based on this YouTube video, but modified for my application. Here’s the final product: Here’s where I started: I did all of my normal retouching on the model part off it, but [...]

117 Steven Thompson Portfolio Review

Ron Davis — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:37:29 +0000

(15:00) This week Ron and Shawna talk smack about Steven Thompson’s Model Mayhem portfolio. Shawna talks about modeling when a photographer makes you look bad…on purpose. Ron says “I get where he’s coming from…” alot and mentions something models do that is annoying. Get complete information on the The Photographer and Model Podcast. Subscribe or [...]

116 Photog Paul Manoian

Ron Davis — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 07:00:57 +0000

(16:20) Michigan photographer Paul Manoian started out in portraits and moved into model photography. Listen to him talk about that change and how working with models is different. He also give tips on getting into secret places. In the banter we talk about movies we’ve walked out on. Paul’s Website Listener Questions None Mentions The [...]

Editing Starts in Preproduction with Digital Video

Ron Davis — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 14:27:01 +0000

I’ve been shooting a lot of digital video with my D7000. Maybe more than I’ve been shooting stills, but very little of it has ended up actually finished. Right now I have footage from a wedding I attended months ago, footage of shoes I made for a trailer concept shot before the wedding, and interviews [...]

115 Mike Roberts Portfolio Review

Ron Davis — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:00:08 +0000

(21:17) We created a video of Shawna and I critiquing Mike Robert’s Model Mayhem portfolio. Something a little different. We tried to be nice, but Shawna had to do a voice imitation. You want to check this out. Listener Questions None…..Again. Mentions Mike Robert’s Portfolio The forum post that started it all. Get complete information [...]

114 Photog Robert Prophet

Ron Davis — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:00:54 +0000

(21:17) Robert Prophet is new to the model photography scene but he’s going after it with a furor we haven’t seen in a long time. Blazing out of the gate and straight into the Girls with Guns hall of fame, Robert is the man behind tactigirls.com and the tactigirls calendar. He gives the perspective of [...]

3 Reasons Your Images Are Soft

Ron Davis — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 22:51:53 +0000

A friend and new model photographer called me the other day after shooting an event and wondered why his images looked soft. He’d shot with a number of different cameras and lenses, but his images still looked soft to him. While I diagnosed his problem I went through a few reasons this might be. #1 [...]

113 – Model Hollis Ireland

Ron Davis — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:00:55 +0000

(26:38) Redhead traveling model Hollis Ireland joins Ron and Shawna this week and reveals the secrets of the globetrotting model. Recorded from Hollis’s front seat as she travelled for an authentic feel. Turns out those models who travel around shooting have secret lists. Ron found out he wasn’t on the good one. Luckily he wasn’t [...]

Composition – Rule of Thirds

Ron Davis — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 18:00:17 +0000

The Rule of Thirds is a classic rule for composition. In the shortest form, it says you should place things in your frame where they intersect the lines dividing the frame into thirds. Using this kind of goes back to getting your subject out of the center of the frame. The rule of thirds gives [...]

112 – Photog Tom Sparks

Ron Davis — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 07:01:40 +0000

(19:24) Tom Sparks is a Utah based photographer with a passion for helping new models. He’s shot lots of different things and many new models, so we had to have him on the show. He’s created a Facebook group for Utah based models that has spread beyond that state and he talks a little about [...]

Composition – Get Close

Ron Davis — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:53:30 +0000

Yesterday I mentioned putting the subject in the center of the image was bad and one of the most common mistakes I see in new shooters. Another common mistake I see is not getting close enough to the subject. There are two ways this is wrong, one I think of as a mistake and the [...]