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Posts Tagged ‘Portland’

The benefit of professional make-up for your Portland Pin-Ups shoot

June 17, 2011

Here is Ginger! She came to the studio recently for a fun pin-up shoot. Most of my sessions include the full attention of my resident make-up artist, Hollie, but on some it’s optional. I always encourage girls to take the option..it adds to the full experience and Hollie is a true pro who knows pin-up make-up inside out.

This before and after also shows how much retouching and care goes into creating the final portraits for you. Unlike some photographers who have been dragged into the digital age kicking and screaming, or how picked up a copy of Photoshop via some dark place on the internet, I’ve been a professional retoucher for over 20 years. In my years working for the advertising industry I have retouched images for such clients as Banana Republic, Apple, HP, MINI USA and Converse. That experience has allowed me to perfect my craft and provide you with stunning, one-of-a-kind portraits unlike any other.

Book your shoot today!

Mike.

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

k

Tags: Mike Long, Pindora, Portland, Portland pin-up photography, sexy
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Andrea: Portland Pin-Ups

May 27, 2011

The lovely Andrea! Andrea claimed to be super nervous when she walked in my studio, but as you can see she came alive under the lights and has become a fantastic pin-up!

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

k

Tags: Mike Long, Pindora, Portland, Portland pin-up photography
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Contract girl Mandy

May 12, 2009

Mandy Apple – one of my contract girls! This shoot was more boudoir based, rather than strictly pin-up. The boudoir service will be coming online soon – the portfolio and website are being built. This shoot with Mandy was also for my ongoing project, that is still top secret…

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All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

k

Tags: contract girl, Mandy Apple, pin-up, Portland, sexy
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No Limits: Portland. Photography workshop debrief

April 3, 2009

Along with a series of tools to help the modern pin-up photographer that I’m working on (more details coming soon!) I’ve also begun to teach pin-up photography and recently held the first of several workshops this year at my studio. This was a 2 day seminar held in conjunction with Andy Armstrong from Knoxville. I’ve known Andy for sometime, and helped him beta test his awesome design|house tools. We each took a day to teach aspects of boudoir, pin-up and glamour photography and post-production.

On day one, I demonstrated a full pin-up shoot then gave instruction for posing, working with models and clients, lighting and working with a make-up artist. After lunch, we moved onto post-production and I demo’d my full workflow and retouching for pin-ups.

Andy was in charge on day two. In the morning he instructed posing and lighting for relaxed glamour photography using both flash and available light. In the afternoon, he showed his full workflow and took questions about Photoshop and retouching in general, and demonstrated products from his Design|House range of tools for digital photographers, including the great new Destination Vegas pack.

Here are some shots of day one:

Day Two:

Here are some shots of day two:

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

k

Tags: pin-up training, Portland, Portland pin-up photography, tools for photographers
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Allison – sexy nurse!

January 20, 2009

All images on this site are © Mike Long 2011. Considerable time, effort and skill was spent creating these artworks…please do not steal my work.

k

Tags: pin-up, Portland, Portland pin-up photography, sexy
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