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Here’s an interview with Georgia. It was taped after the photoshoot for Young Country Wife. Georgia talks a little about her who she is and about her life as a student, model, actress and musician.

Photo courtesy of Amazing Productions
Introducing a new model for Laguna Beach Bikini. Nikki is a 19-year-old college student in Orange County, California. She is studying for the medical field because she wants to help people. Nikki is interested in bikini modeling, so she came to a casting, filled out all the paperwork and was interviewed [...]

Georgia Z. came by for a photoshoot at our little beach cottage in Laguna Beach. The working title for the production was Young Country Wife. The concept was based on a 17-year-old girl I once knew a who had been married at age 16 to an older gentleman. She lived with her older husband in [...]

Photo courtesy Pictor Photo Archive
Once you have finished your photoshoot, you are done, right? No, the last step, and often the most rewarding, is to review the results of the photoshoot. Ideally, this should be done as soon as possible after the photoshoot while things are still fresh in you head.
Back in the days of [...]

Peter Gowland is one of the original Hollywood glamour photographers. He was born in 1916 in Los Angeles, so he has been around town for a while. He was also an actor, of sorts, and a camera designer. His father was Gibson Gowland. Originally from England, Gibson was a Hollywood actor who starred in silent [...]

You have a casting scheduled with us. How should you prepare? How should you dress? What should you bring? What should should expect at the casting?
How to Dress & What To Bring
Dress like you would for a job interview. Most models dress stylish casual. In the winter they wear jeans and boots. In the summer [...]

Model writes: Do you any advice on how to get paid modeling gigs?
So how to ask for paying gigs in your area?
Personal Selling
Unless you are signed with an agency, you will have to find your own work. Approach modeling as your business. Like any business, a model needs to do marketing and sales. You need [...]

I made arrangements for a beach shoot with Alenka who is a professional model in Kiev. (She is the girl on the right in the picture above.) I already photographed her once before. Alenka said she would stop by my hotel in a taxicab and pick me up for a photoshoot. I waited outside for [...]

Anya and Inna, two beautiful Ukrainian girls, expressed an interest in modeling. Anya is the blonde. Inna is the brunette. So we scheduled a photoshoot with them in a lovely natural setting at Botanitsky Sad (Botanical Garden) in Kiev.
We made plans to meet at the metro stop Pecharska at 15.00. I was waiting inside the [...]

A couple of days ago I met a new model named Alicia. Eighteen-year-old Alicia is a 100% Ukrainian girl and she has a beautiful thin figure. She is ideal for body work like bikini modeling.
If you are interested in bikini modeling, it is essential that you have a great figure because obviously everything shows. Legs, [...]

I travel quite a bit and hire models in many different countries. I always pay models what I consider a fair wage for the local market. I always make an effort to determine the local prevailing wage and pay photo models something commensurate with that. However what I am observing is that American photographers [...]

Well the month of July is almost over and our roving photographer has been in Ukraine for about 3 weeks. Yet we still haven’t received any photographs from him yet from any fashion photoshoots. Fortunately we still have photographs taken in Prague from last spring, although today we had to dig out a bikini [...]

Many girls have expressed interest in modeling for Laguna Beach Bikini magazine. You may be wondering what we look for in our models. Here is the lowdown.
When a new model comes in for a casting, there are two aspects that we must evaluate. The first is physical appearance. The second is attitude.
Age Range
As for physical [...]

There are as many different style of fashion photography as there are photographers. On one end might be a straightforward documentary photograph of a garment on a mannequin. On the other extreme would be artistic shots where the clothing is barely visible. Some fashion shots don’t show clothing at all. Fashion nudes are very common [...]

Rita is a fashion model that believes in the benefits of exercise and fitness training. She likes to get regular exercise and stay active. She also makes a habit of going to the park for inline skating.
So we went out late in the afternoon on a busy weekend to a public park in Prague near [...]

Anna Larina has been a regular visitor here the past few weeks. She shows a strong interest in clothing, fashion styling and all kinds of modeling. So at the end of the day we headed down to to the river to see if we could get some nice sunset shots. Sometimes I like to try [...]

A few days ago Aya came by to visit and we went over to the top of Petrin hill for some photos in the rose garden. There is a big telescope and observatory at the top of the hill. That is also the hill with the miniature Eiffel tower. For our purposes, i.e. fashion photoshoots, [...]

Aljona is a model that I work with regularly when I visit Prague. So on Friday afternoon we went out and shot some photos around the State Opera House and also around old town Prague. The picture at the left shows Aljona riding the tram when we were coming back to the studio. A bunch [...]

Here are a few results from Sunday’s photoshoot with Jiani. You can find more in the gallery.
We started out about 7.30 on Sunday morning when the sun was still low in the sky. By 8.00 the sun was quite high for regular daylight. We finished about 9.00. After 10.00 in the morning is [...]

Here are a few results from yesterday’s photoshoot with Aya. You can find more in the gallery.
We didn’t get started until mid-morning, so the sun was rather high up in the sky. This can result in the model squinting. Sunglasses help. The best time to shoot in Prague in the spring is the early [...]