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I was recently scrolling through an on-line modeling site when I saw a notice in one model’s profiles that she would only work with photographers who use DSLR’s—sorry, mirrorless camera and film SLR shooters—who will photograph her only in manual mode.

There was a time when rugged cameras were all the rage. Nowadays posh compacts rule the roost for the same reason your local Ford Dealers want to sell you a $98.000 F150—more profit for them.

It’s a Two-fer: January is also National Hobby Month, a perfect time to pick up a new hobby or get back into an old one that you haven’t thought about in a while. I can’t think of a better hobby than photography and in my own case, glamour photography, which is the subject of the second half of today’s post.

A few years ago, I began publishing a series of posts that featured uncensored photographs of models I’ve worked with during the past. These posts were typically uploaded on Thursdays and displayed on the main page as “Password Protected” or sometimes just “Protected.”

Shooting any kind of portrait outdoors  means that sometimes you’re going to have to be creative about where and when you shoot and need to search for places that will accommodate your subject’s and the shoot’s photographic requirements but even after doing research doesn’t mean you won’t encounter some problems.

Over all of the years I’ve posted many different images of many different models demonstrating various photography, portrait lighting and even software techniques but whenever certain models are featured I seem get a higher than normal number of page views, likes and responses to these particular images.