I used to be a Nikon shooter years ago. It was about the time that digital was really coming along. I noticed that I was always fighting with the images in post because of heavy yellow/green skin issues. I did some testing with a Canon digital camera and the skin tones just blew me away. I sold my Nikon gear and became a Canon shooter and have never looked back.

Traitor...

:1orglaugh

I'm sure Nikon finally got their shit together. I just didn't have time to wait around for them to figure it all out. Skin tones are one of the most important things for our kind of photography and I just got tired of fighting with them to make them right. With Canon, I didn't have to fight anymore and could spend time enhancing skin tones instead of spending time correcting them.

Nice answer.

I've used a couple Nikon cameras, I just never appreciated the feel of them, the functions were totally different than the Sony or Canons I've used... the DSLR's I've used have just felt super cheap to me.

I got a question o obi wan of the shutter. Go with the 7d or wait for the 60d?

I have no idea what a 60D is LOL*.

I don't keep up with the latest offerings from camera manufacturers. Technology just moves way to fast for me to keep up. Afraid I won't be of much help on this one. I do have a 7D and I love it. Don't know anything about the 60D.

The 60d will be the replacement for the 50d which was the replacement for my camera the 40d. The rumor has it , it will be the first canon with an articulating display. My thought is to go with the 60d if they dont change the body too radically. So I can still use my batteries and battery holder. It should be announced in august according to canon rumors.

Great thread :)

What's your favourite lens to shoot with?

My favorite lens is probably my 70-200mm Canon lens :thumbsup

Thanks! I can't believe nobody is asking more :)
Do you ever use UV filters to protect your lenses? Or do they just add too much distortion?
If you do - does brand really matter?

Sorry for jumping in here Dean.

The art of photography has little to nothing to do with the equipment, especially when shooting glamor or porn. It's how you use the equipment.

It's more about what's going on in the shooters head, the models head and the ability of the shooter to work with those two.

It takes years to learn that and in the meantime the shooter can lose a lot of money. Until the business was prepared to accept nearly anything if the price was right.

Here's a question Dean that might help some.

How do you make sure you shoot a set of say 150 images making sure each one is different and enticing?

aren't photographers usually trained like monkey's. everything is easy when u have that camera>>>>not

Well truthfully, I don't worry about "each one" being different and enticing. Instead, I focus on the set of pictures as a whole. There's no way to shoot 150 different pictures and have every single one of them be enticing...especially based on our time constraints. I have a lot of content to produce in one day and I can't spent too much time on each individual shot. Focusing on the picture set as a whole seems to me to be the better approach. Shoot a lot of variety that will please as many people as possible. Not every person will like every shot.

Good answer.

What I do is have a posing book/books by my side to refer to when shooting. Clear plastic pages with the poses torn from the magazines I shot for.

Never had to worry about time restraints, 2 sets a day was the norm. Once or at the most twice a week. Even with shooting a video afterwards it was easy. Shooting more meant the quality went down.

You are talking about the art of pornography, not the art of photography.

You are forgetting that much/most photography does not involve human models. The key word is "photo" and all that matters is what is recorded by the camera, so it greatly depends on the recording equipment. I hope you are not trying to say that 19th century photography was as good as 21st century photography.

For magazine work, I think 2 sets a day is fine. For web-content, buyers would laugh in my face if I told them we'd be shooting 2 sets of pictures per day :1orglaugh

These days we're shooting 4 sets a day as well as 4 striptease/masturbation videos. It's a lot of content to squeeze into 1 shooting day and still keep the quality top-notch. Luckily, I'm working with budgets that allow me 2 or 3 assistants so that really helps to push things along and stay on schedule for the day.

I know guys that are shooting 10, 15, 20 sets per day in an effort to please their content buying clients. RESPECT :bowdown

You should hold your glamour workshops again. Your work is great and it would be fun to attend one of your workshops.

I've been tossing around the idea of doing one of those perhaps in the fall :thumbsup

Even in non pornographic photography the skill is in the eye and head of the shooter. Knowing what to shoot and when to click is far more important than knowing how the camera works or having one that does a lot of the thinking for you.

The difference in image quality is way higher today, but not image content. An artist is an an artist, using a box brownie or the latest digital camera.

My brother, now he's retired is taking a masters degree in photography at university. His images a great, not because he has a kick ass camera, but because he has an eye and a mind to know what to shoot.

We have a couple of Nikon D70 camera's with 18-70mm lenses. We used to shoot content in house with them years ago..

What lighting would you recommend for shooting models indoors ?
Something portable is most important.

thx...

bump for answer if you have time.

Is it still Friday??

I'd say check out the Alien Bees: http://www.alienbees.com/flash.html

I've never used them but have heard wonderful things about them.

If you're just shooting amateur type content, one light w/umbrella should do the trick.