In addition to the big windows of the Wynn’s suite, there was this cool couch in the corner. Here’s Tiffany on it.

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Cyan Banister shot by @merkley

Why not getting what you want from a model photoshoot as a photographer is a good thing. We talk to her about how her modeling has impacted her self image. As someone who is hooked into the high tech community in Silicon Valley, she talks about how people react to someone who is “naked on the internet”.

Then we talk about Zivity itself. Its genesis, and all the questions I had as a photographer about Zivity including why the split is the way it is. We also find out about changes to come. Ron and Cyan also talk about how Zivity can impact the amateur model and photographer world that is run on the TFP model.

All around a great and fun episode.

Cyan’s Zivity Profile

@cyantist on twitter.

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Suicide Girls
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@AncillaTilia
@AminaMunster
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Jillian Ann

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There are lots of things I forgot to bring to the shoot, despite having a new camera bag.

One was a polarizing filter, which would have gotten rid of the reflections in the window. But here are a couple of Tiffany with the strip behind her.

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Thought I should write a follow up post to A Guide Shooting While You Are In Vegas and tell you how my shooting when while I was there.

I had a friend and former model, Maren Kate, who needed some images for her online business so I planned on shooting with her and I schedule a shoot with Tiffany Jackson who we interviewed on the podcast last month. My idea originally was to shoot Maren first by herself, then have Tiffany show up and shoot her and add Maren.

Like any plan, it didn’t survive contact with the enemy. That enemy was scheduling.

Finding an MUA

I was lucky in that I was working with a Vegas model who knew people, so I asked Tiffany for recommendations and she gave me three. I contacted them and lost one because she was already scheduled. I had one of my MUA’s look at the other MUA’s ports and asked her which one she would pick. She asked what we’d be shooting and then picked one. So I pick her as well.

Notice I’m not saying her name. More on that later.

Once we added the MUA to the mix, we had to schedule makeup earlier and earlier. Originally we were going to start Maren in makeup at 1 PM and have Tiffany show up an hour later. Then I could shoot Maren’s stuff, while Tiffany was in makeup.

Well that wasn’t going to work for the MUA. She had to be somewhere at 4, which I thought was plenty of time. I give my MUAs an hour to do make up. Even doing two girls she should have been done by 3. And she said she didn’t need a hour, but half that.

But she was worried about it and decided she would do Tiffany’s makeup before 1 and show up with Tiffany done and do Maren at 1. Fine, I’m flexible.

Everything was going well, until 10 minutes before I get on a plane in Houston on the day before the shoot. When I get an email from the MUA telling me she isn’t coming. She’ll get Tiffany done and to the shoot by 1, but she has to go into work early, “…this is why I don’t like to schedule on days I have to work.” Nice to tell me this now.

So I get to start my trip off stressed out. I sent a quick email to Tiffany asking for help and got on the plane.

When I got off the plane – at 10 PM Vegas time – I had an encouraging email from Tiffany telling me she was sure I’d be able to work it out.

I sent a MM message to the other MUA – CKO – and hoped for the best.

Then I went and had a drink.

But CKO came through for me and wrote me back and agreed to come the next day.

The Actual Shoot

OK that was all the drama of the trip. Next day CKO and Maren were at my hotel – The Wynn – and we shot a lot of stuff in the room. Tiffany showed up as well and we shot there in the room for awhile.

A cool thing about the Wynn was it has windows that show the Strip, so there are some images with the Strip in the background. I’ll be posting some over the next few days.

Cool, or uncool thing about those same windows – which are floor to ceiling on one whole wall – is they are tented gold. Yep. Gold. In a way it is like golden hour all the time. But not quite. I did use a SpyderCube to get a white point but everything is still pretty warm.

After shooting in the room, I wanted to shoot in the desert and by the Las Vegas sign. The models suggested the Desert Springs Reserve, which is desert like and has other desert green stuff.

So we all load into Maren’s car and first go to the Las Vegas sign. They’ve actually built a parking lot in the median and a little place for people to shoot. I would have designed it differently. It is very hard to get both the sign and the people in it.

I had an idea for the two girls to be pulling on and fighting over something in front of the sign. In the end it didn’t work.

Then we went to the Desert Springs Reserve. It was getting close to golden hour and the place was almost closed. But we got some good stuff there. They had had a contest for school kids to build “scarecrows” out of garbage and they were displaying them all over the place. There was some impressive stuff, but I didn’t want any of it in my images, which limited where and how we could shoot.

Conclusion

I’ll be posting actual images from the shoot with commentary over the next few days, so I’m not going to go into detail of the shoots right now. But it was fun. I got to do it all in one day and had the rest of the weekend to relax and enjoy Vegas. And stay up too late every night. And eat well. I like Vegas.

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The photographer behind the snake and spider shoot with Model Tierra. How do you tell a model you want to put a tarantula on her face and wrap her in a snake? Listen to find out how he did it.

What does it mean to be a photographer and model? “How many of the people in this city say that?” That was the start of his muse relationship with Tierra. He talks about the modeling scene in Houston and how it differs from other cities.

What is the difference between art and entertainment? Hassan talks about that in the context of what he does as a fine artist and photographer.

There is a ranging discussion of people who do art in multiple mediums and how those thing affect their photography.

Hassan’s Website

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One year ago today, on Oct 28, 2008, I wrote the first post on what was then the Glamour Apprentice Blog.

Glamour Apprentice is dedicated to teaching you how to be a exceptional photographer of beautiful women, in all genres.

That was the first sentence written and an attempt to have one line explain what it is I’m trying to do here at Photographer and Model. I still think it does a good job explaining what I’m trying to do.

The Past

There have been a lot of ups and downs since then. The two biggest things that stick out to me are the changing of the name and the launching of the podcast.

There was some personal trauma when I found out I had to change the name. It is a SEO nightmare to have to do that and it just takes a while to dig out all the places you used it. But I will say I’m much happier with the new name. Should have used it from the beginning.

The podcast has been one of the best things to happen to the site. It allows me to talk to photographers and models from all over the country and I hope soon the world. I’ve learned a lot from them and it has been great working with Shawna. I wish I had started it earlier, but it has been a lot of work and I think it might have been too much right at the beginning.

The Future

I’d hoped that I could launch the Photographer and Model Academy on this day, but it is just taking too much time creating all of the content that will be part of it. What is the Academy? It’s a bit of a secret right now, let’s just say it will teach you everything you need to know to be a model photographer and that I’m shooting a lot of video to do it. More to come next month.

Thank You

I want to give a heartfelt thank you to all of you who have commented on the blog, emailed me from the mini-course, and reviewed the podcast. It is the encouragement from y’all that keeps me up late editing podcasts, videos, articles, and images. The next year we are going to take this whole thing to another level and hopefully change the way the model photography underground works for the better.

Stay tuned, and keep creating beautiful images of beautiful models.

Sincerely,

Ron Davis
Photographer & Model

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Tiffany Jackson, by Vincent of Def Films

Do photographers normally have an idea what they want to shoot? Not in Tiffany’s experience.

Tiffany helps out new models and give some tips on this episode for those models. She also talks about how flakes make her life easier.

We talk about Las Vegas, where she’s from, and how the modeling scene works there. With some tips about traveling there and shoots.

How she dealt with controversy and how people blame the photographer first, even when it’s the model’s idea.

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Tiffany’s headshot by Vincent of Def Film

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This is a recount of the best and worst trip I’ve made to Vegas. This is the only time I tried to shoot while there, and that ended up being cool and horrible.

The worst consequence of a model flake ever, and the only time I ever stood a model up.

Things to learn from this. You can’t party till 4 am and shoot the next day. 2 am maybe.

I did have a great shoot with Crystal though. I need to contact her again. I thought I followed her on Facebook but had the name wrong. What a doof.

Of course everyone wants to know how the trip was. It was a roller coaster. Here’s a day by day break down.

Thursday night. Got in to Vegas at 7:30, that’s 9:30 Houston time. Went out and partied till 4 AM. Had a really good time.

Slept until 1 on Friday. I had a shoot at 6. Went a played a little poker and one some. Then it took longer than expected to get the car back from the Valet – like 30 minutes – so I was already running late. And the model was at the location early – an hour early. So we get on the highway and are driving, and get caught in traffic. I mention to my co-pilot that we’re heading South and he says the sun is on the wrong side of the car for south. We’ve been driving the wrong way for 30 minutes. Call the model back and she says I won’t make it back before the sun goes away. So I flaked on the model.

We go have dinner and then decided go to the nightclub Tryst in the Wynn. We get there at 11 and there is a big line. But they don’t let guys in by themselves. We wait and wait. At midnight I realize I’ve got a shoot at 10 AM the next morning and am not going to be able to stay out till 4 again. So I leave right before the others get in. My roommate comes in at 6 AM.

Saturday morning I feel like death warmed over. I’m nauseous, groggy and everything else at 8:30 when I get up. But the valet is fast and I find my shoot location with half an hour to spare. (Gave myself extra time to make sure I made it.) Meet Crystal and we have a great shoot.

That afternoon I play a little more poker and am down. Middle of the afternoon I get a call from one of the two models I’m suppose to shoot with and she can’t come. I try to call the other to arrange another meeting place, but she doesn’t answer. Which is a bad sign. We drive out to the casino we are suppose to meet at. I try to call her two more times. I get in the parking lot and starting driving around looking for her. Don’t see anyone. Decided to leave one parking lot and go to another. Get the the stop sign, there is a line of traffic in front of me stopped. A big truck stops for me. I pull out to turn left and get T-boned by and SUV.

So I spend the next 2 hours filling out accident reports. The model never showed either. Then I go turn in the car and don’t want another one. (Yes the rental agency would have given me another).

My model Crystal arranged for us to get into Jet at the Mirage that night. I was feel like extra crap after the wreck, but I wasn’t sure my buddies could get in without me. So I hung with them till we got in – and paid a $30 cover. Then I went back to the room and to bed.

We had to check out of the hotel at 11 AM on Sunday. So we were up at 10. Checked out, hassled the other guys who weren’t up because they’d asked for more time from the hotel. Then we ate some lunch and went to play poker. Played for about 5 hours. At one point I was up $400. If I could have made another $50 I could have paid for the trip. But I ended up only up about $148 bucks, but that was cool.

Here are a couple picture of the car after the wreck.

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It’s Las Vegas week here on Photographer and Model. I’m going to Las Vegas Wednesday night and staying through the weekend. This week’s guest on the podcast is Tiffany Jackson, a Las Vegas model. While I’m in Vegas I’m going to be shooting with Tiffany and another model.

Beware the Vegas Model (Not Tiffany)

Before I get into her tips, I wanted to point out something. Vegas models want to shoot with you. As Tiffany put it in the podcast, there aren’t a lot of photographers who shoot in Las Vegas, but everyone travels there sometime. So in order for the Vegas models to expand their portfolios, they look for traveling photographers.

Tiffany’s Dos and Don’ts

Make sure of your travel details. Be sure the trip is actually going to happen. You need to know when you are going to be there. You can’t expect models to wrap their schedules around you and then change it at the last minute.

Don’t assume everything cool is in one place. You are probably going to have to move around. It is best to rent a car, so you can get from location to location.

You can’t shoot in a casino. Security will be all over you really quick if you do that. So don’t have a concept that depends on shooting in a casino. Supposedly you can ask permission and get a permit, but I think for most of us non-commercial shooters that isn’t going to happen.

Plan out makeup and wardrobe. This is true of any shoot in my opinion, and always impresses a model – which shows some of pathetic traits of average photographers – but is especially true for you when traveling. You do know you can use Model Mayhem to find MUAs as well as models, right?

Don’t expect the model to show you the strip. You may go to Vegas to pick up women, but your models aren’t valid targets.

Book multiple models for the same day. Does Vegas have more flakes than other towns? Hard to say, but it does have flakes. If you have to shoot it is better to double book.

How do you avoid the flakes? Look at how often they update their profile. Gage how quickly they respond. If they take too long, cut your losses. Ask other models if they can vouch for them.

What The Model Can Do For You.

You are coming in from out of town, so you don’t know what you are doing or where you are going. You will have to depend on the model somewhat. So I asked Tiffany what a model might be able to do for you. I’ll add the caveat that Tiffany is a go-getter; she gets things done. Not all models are that proactive.

She can help you arrange makeup. Models know MUAs. Therefore they can recommend them to you. Sometimes you can get a break from the MUA because she knows and likes the model.

She can help find locations. She knows the city better than you do, and has probably shot in a number of places. Tiffany also said she can tell you what times are best to shoot at different locations.

Where Are Good Places To Shoot?

A different Tiffany at the Dry Lake Bed

Dry lake beds. There are a couple of dry lake beds with in driving distance of Las Vegas that make cool locations.

Downtown Las Vegas. Has a cool neon look and an old Vegas feel. It is cool to shoot there, but Tiffany says you have to be wary of the bums. They can be aggressive and disruptive to your shoots.

Valley of Fire. A cool red rock location. Tiffany says Valley of Fire actually looks cooler than Red Rock park.

Conclusion

Vegas is a great place to visit, and while you are there you can shoot. If you are a good photographer, both from a creative and character point of view, the models will look forward to shooting with you. But models are going to be wary. They have to worry if you are just trying to pick them up. They also worry – like most models you shoot TFP with – that you will shoot with them and never give them any images.

Tiffany suggests you bring a laptop and burn them a CD right there. I don’t give my models everything shot, only the retouched images, and I’m not spending time in Vegas retouching. But you can find ways to lessen this worry. Maybe you could give her references from models you’ve shot with and delivered in a timely manner. Or you could agree to give her a CD of images, but she can’t use them unless you don’t send her anything with in a month. Be creative.

I’m going to be shooting while in Vegas with Tiffany. She’s helped me find an MUA and we’ve set a time, talked wardrobe and locations. It should be fun, and I’ll report back next week.

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She got is all right this time. Good grip. Finger off the trigger.

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