In my post It’s Your First Glamour Shoot. What’s Happens Now? I talked about the logistics and preliminary steps you might go through during your first model shoot. But what happens next when you go go into your home studio or whatever location you’ve set aside for the shoot? Here’s a few tip to get you started:

Let me tell you a secret: You don’t always want or need tack sharp images, even for photographs of cars. Sometimes a soft focus image is just what the doctor or photographer ordered and the use of blur or selective blur can be used add a film noir touch to an otherwise ordinary photograph.

Whether shooting headshots with speedlights, pack & head systems or monolights, one of the best ways to improve the quality of their light output is by attaching an umbrella or a softbox

Now the world has gone to bed, Darkness won’t engulf my head, I can see by infrared,—Douglas Adams

The techniques I wrote about in my book, Joe Farace’s Glamour Photography, and that I’ve used for this kind of portraiture in the past are really simple and don’t require lots of expensive equipment; all you really need is a camera and a subject.