Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images [Paperback]

Rolando Gomez (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2007

From working with models to lighting and posing, everything aspiring glamour photographers need to know in order to run a successful business and take gorgeous pictures is included in this thorough manual. Written for both the amateur and professional photographer, this handbook explores how to build a professional rapport with subjects while creating sensual portraits similar to those found in Maxim, Playboy, and other men’s magazines. Each of the 150 images is accompanied by explanatory text enabling the reader to re-create the shot in its entirety or emulate just some of the picture’s techniques. Tips on adding personality to images, understanding how the body photographs, and taking elegant pictures of fully clothed models is also included.

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About the Author

Rolando Gomez is a photojournalist and editorial photographer—whose partial credits include AOL/CompuServe, Leica World, St. Martin’s Press, PARADE, People, New York Times, and Playboy—and a contributing editor for Studio. He is a Lighting Master at Photo Plus Expo (NYC), an instructor for Samy’s Digital Photography Institute in Los Angeles and a lecturer for FotoFusion and the Palm Beach Photographic Art Centre.  He has taught over 130 consecutively sold-out glamour photography workshops in the past five years and is one of the original 30 Lexar Media Elite Photographers.  He is the creator of www.glamour1.com and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Amherst Media, Inc. (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 158428210X
• ISBN-13: 978-1584282105
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #902,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rolando Gomez, with with websites www.rolandogomez.com, www.rolandogomez.net, www.lensdiaries.com, www.editorialnudes.com, www.myphototalent.com, and www.garageglamour.com, has conducted over 500 seminars in the United States, Germany, Belgium, Canada, Mexico and the Netherlands in the past twelve years. U.S. venues include Photo Plus Expo in Manhattan, Samy's Camera in Los Angeles, Julia Dean in Venice Beach, Photo Imaging & Design Expo in San Diego, The University of Texas, The University of the Virgin Islands, FotoFusion and the Palm Beach Photographic Center in Florida. You can follow him by the minute at http://www.twitter.com/rolandogomez

Gomez is an advocate for the power of photography to help build or rebuild self-esteem and offers his his fifth book, "Photographic Therapy--The Power of Photography to Help Build or Rebuild Self-Esteem" for free at http://www.freephotographybooks.com The 105-page book, in full-color, is totally free and printable.

In 1994 the Dept. of Defense selected him as one of the "Top Five" military combat photographers worldwide and was the former Chief of Multimedia Production for the Air Force News Agency where he oversaw the photography, radio and television products for the U.S. Air Force website, www.af.mil. He later transitioned to glamour and fashion photography after leaving a combined 17-years of Federal service.

Author Michelle Perkins includes and entire chapter on Gomez in each of her books, Professional Portrait Lighting: Techniques and Images from Master Photographers and Professional Portrait Posing: Techniques and Images from Master Photographers. His images and biography are also featured in Perkins', 500 Poses for Photographing Women: A Visual Sourcebook for Portrait Photographers. Gomez also wrote the forward for Jack Watson's, Beyond the Glamour Photograph: How to Get Started and Be Successful as a Boudoir, Glamour, and Swimsuit Photographer.

Over the course of his career, Gomez traveled to 39 countries to cover feature stories including the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Olympics, the 1996 Presidential Inauguration, Desert Storm, the signing of the Peace Accords in El Salvador, Uphold Democracy in Haiti, Northern Watch in Turkey and the 1994 Rwandan refugee crisis in Africa. In 1993, as a "buck sergeant," he was awarded the Department of Defense's Meritorious Service Medal for documenting the drug war in Central and South America, a 26 month assignment.

Gomez holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Communication, Electronic Media, summa cum laude (4.0 GPA), from the University of Texas, San Antonio 2001.

Partial credits include Parade (cover story w/Eddie Adams), People, New York Times, Playboy, Rangefinder (cover story), Maxim, Sports Illustrated, St. Martin's Press, NBA, Amherst Media, Studio Photography, Digital Imaging, Peterson's 4-Wheel Drive, Stars & Stripes, Army Times, Airman, Soldiers, San Antonio Express News, Evan Williams Bourbon, AOL/Time Warner, PMA Daily, Leica World News, Shutterbug, Photo Media, D-Pixx (cover story), Zoom NL, Photographie, PROFIFTOTO, fotoMAGAZIN, FOTO-VIDEO DIGITAAL, Camera Magazine, and many nationwide newspapers.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars If you own his 'Garage Glamour' book, you don't need this one ..., February 5, 2008

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Nicole Brown (Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images (Paperback)

I'm a fan of Rolando Gomez' website www.glamour1.com (formerly garage glamour) and of the articles on it written by him. However I was disappointed when I purchased this book together with his previous 'Garage Glamour' book at the same time from Amazon, sight unseen. I would recommend against purchasing both books as he has repeated alot of the same information in both which I found very disappointing as I was hoping he could have come up with new material. For this reason I definitely wouldn't purchase any future books from this author as he would probably rehash the same stuff again. The photos in these books weren't particularly great or inspiring either.

Also if you are a fan of his website you will probably have seen a lot of this information before. Having said all that, there is some useful information and I particularly liked the info on white balance and gels. There's nothing too in depth, but would be a good read for a beginner in glamour photography. Because I've enjoyed his free articles I didn't mind having spent money on his book - but if I had my time again I just wouldn't have bought both!

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok, But..., September 24, 2007

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J. Humphrey (TN,USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images (Paperback)

Gomez's book is moderately decent. Professional Techniques shouldn't have been in the title, because he doesn't really touch on posing, lighting, etc. He just basically says "work with it and see what you can do". The pictures are stunning, but he does not show a diagram on how the picture was produced. He does include what camera (and basic settings) and lighting (just the model and type-not placement) was used for the shot. Its ok for someone just starting into glamour shots but not good for the beginning shooter.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent read, September 25, 2007

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Victor R. Naumann "jagdoctor" (Maryland, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rolando Gomez's Glamour Photography: Professional Techniques and Images (Paperback)

This book makes a great follow up to Rolando's first book.

More lighting setups and tips, more working with gels and specific white balance issues, and of course, more beautiful models.

Far from a boring how to manual, Rolando explains in easy to understand terms how he gets the beautiful results that are shown on many pages of this book.

A very worthwhile addition to my bookshelf, it is a great reference for many ideas.