All the Small Little Things...

I've been asked what I do when I don't photograph people. Well... this is what I do in my spare time: macros or landscape. This post is dedicated to macros. I promise I'll post some landscapes too very soon.

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Who’s the Gorgeous Girl in the Picture?

Is it a model? Is it a famous movie star? Is it a singer?... Noup! It can be anyone! Anyone, I tell you! You can be in it! You just have to believe it’s possible!


I was inspired to write this article by a very dear friend of mine (whom I’m not going to name at this point).

Glamour photography can be for anyone, and anyone can be in a glamorous picture. Why? Because we all can look amazingly good and drop-dead-gorgeous. We are that way! It’s just that little voice inside our head that says “I’ll never look like that” that refrains us from asking for a portfolio. But I tell you: sometimes, people around you can see you so gorgeous and so beautiful that you won’t believe.

So to prove you that, I’ll tell you a little story.

Last weekend I went out for a coffee with a friend of mine. She told me how much she liked my glamour pictures and that she wished she would have the body and the face to pose for me. This is the short version of the story. She kind of beat around the bush for almost an hour about how I was doing… what were my latest projects… if I had any wedding photo session planed any time soon… and so on and so forth. I’m a pretty straight-forward person. I have something to say, I’ll say it. So all her efforts to get my attention towards what she wanted didn’t work out. I kept telling her the honest truth about my projects, and not a single word about glamour photography. After an hour she finally said: “…soooo… any new clients for glamour… ‘cause… you know... I loooove what you can do… aaaand… maybe I can come with you some time… and help you… with the… lights and all… and…”. At that point (because we've been friends for many years and I very well know that she wouldn’t volunteer for such a thing even if I paid her own weight in gold) I knew something was waaaay off, and so I asked straight ahead if there’s anything she wants to tell me or ask me… It took her another 20 minutes, but in the end she told me she would like to try this glamour “stuff”.

Can you imagine that!?!?... She is my friend! And she was so scared to ask me to photograph her! And I never thought she wanted such a thing, because I thought she would ask when she was interested. But no! She didn’t have enough courage to ask. Why? That’s an easy one: because she thought she didn’t have the face for it!... Can you imagine this???... And if you see her you will swear she’s a model or something. But for some strange reason she doesn’t see herself like that in the mirror. I don’t know why.

So what I did, I took a picture of her, right there, in the coffee shop, when she wasn’t paying any attention, and I just showed her the picture I took on the back screen of my camera. Her reaction was “Ooooo woooow… that’s… that’s me?” I said “Ya! And this is just staying here, relaxed, with a cappuccino in front of you. Can you imagine what we can do on a photo session?”… So, after a few more minutes I managed to schedule a photo session with her.

My advice to all of you out there: don’t back off, don’t think for a second that you can’t look like a movie star in a picture, because you can. It’s up to a skilled photographer to tell you how to pose, what to wear at such a session, what make-up you should put on, and all that stuff. So if you really want this… just ask!

Thank you for reading my article, and stay tuned for more!