My Sunday series about making available light portraits continues today with a portrait of Maria Elan, a mature glamour model, who I photographed at a group model shoot in Phoenix. Arizona a few years ago.

Today we recognize the 38th state on National Colorado Day. aka the Centennial State, Colorado entered the union in 1876. The Spanish first explored Colorado seeking streets paved with gold. After Colorado became a US territory, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike explored the range of this newly acquired land. A summit he predicted that would never be scaled bears his name today.

One of the most interesting aspects of digital photograph is that we, or so it appears, seem to shoot more images during a photo session than we previously did when shooting film for a similar project.

I’ve written several posts about the different approaches that I’ve used for finding models. You can access any of the posts on this subject, by using this site’s search feature, it’s the magnifying glass icon, and entering “finding models.”

Noise in digital photographs is the visual equivalent of the static that you sometimes hear in AM radio signals and most digital cameras add some level of noise to captured images.