Beginning Motion Studies

We are beginning to experiment with stop-motion photography. Our first set was shot with our standard studio equipment. We used fixed lights that required a high ISO setting (resulting in a grainy picture), a low Aperture setting (resulting in out of focus pictures when Ana moved toward or away from the camera), and a relatively slow shutter speed (resulting in blurring when the motion was too fast). Despite these problems, we thought some people might be interested in the results so they are available in the session downloads area. This first attempt contains about 200 photos of Ana going through several quick motions like jumping and falling.
After this session, we immediately bought a faster flash that significantly reduced all of the problems for our next session, with Lola.
11/28/2011

Every model in the Art Models project

Every Model in One Place

We have added a page showing every model in the Art Models project. If you want a quick overview of all the different models who are available, the Model's page could be a good place to look.
11/17/2011

New Model AnaIv

Ana has a background in theater, gymnastics, and dance as well as other performance arts. She is helping us with poses based on dance, motion, and drama. Her first session featured mostly poses based on dance movements that could be held for a rotation. We also spent some time practicing photographing rapid motion such as leaping and spinning. Future sessions will include Ana in motion photograhed front, back, and side. This is in preparation for book 7, which is being discussed in the forum.
See Ana on the Poses Page.
11/08/2011

New Sessions Available for Vaunt

Both halves of the Vaunt session are now available for download.

1st half

2nd half

11/04/2011

New Model Eva

At just 5 feet 1 inch tall (155cm) and 100lbs (45.36 kg), Eva is a very petite model but still has well-defined muscles. We mostly used side and spot light for her poses. Her ethnic background is strongly Italian.
It is common for women to wear heels and heels significantly change the posture and form of the body. Because of this, we frequently shoot several poses with the model wearing heels (it's not an attempt to make the model look sexy). The effect on Eva is particularly dramatic
compare evae001 to evae014 .
More of Eva on the Poses Page.

New Model Vaunt

Vaunt has a classic pin-up style figure with broad rib cage and hips and a narrow waist. She also has strong, classic, and beautiful facial features. We accentuated all of these with a strong side light. Vaunt worked collaboratively with us on the pose selection. See more of Vaunt in the Pose Tool.

New Model Sarahann

This has been a busy summer for new models. While we continue to look for local male models under the age of 35, the traveling models who come to our area continue to be the more typical young and beautiful women. SarahAnn is certainly no exception. She is a New York fashion model, with the dramatic look and posing of a fashion model. Many of Sarahann's poses were designed by her.
See more of Sarahann in the Poses Page.

New Model VNixie

Vnixie adds an interesting body type to our catalog, super thin but still having a very curvy figure is really unusual. Even though people have been asking for more everyday activities, Vnixie's flexibility and expressiveness led us to poses that tended to the artsy and abstract. See more of her in the Pose Tool page.

Artists, share your work

See some of the artwork people have created using our art models as a reference. This is an experimental feature that's still in testing and development. If you have any suggestions for it, please let us know. 7/5/2011

New Model Nedah!

New Model Nedah

People have been asking for more variety in body types and ethnicity. Nedah adds a tall, thin, female African American to our catalog. Her poses are available now in the Poses Page.

JenniMisha Pose Sets Finished

New Sets by Jenni/Misha

The duo poses by Jenni and Misha have actually been finished for some time, but we overlooked uploading them. Apologies for that! All their poses are now available in the Pose Tool page and as a session in the
Session Downloads page.

New Ginger Pose Sets

New Sets by Ginger

We recently completed Ginger's entire first session and her poses are now available in the Pose Tool page and as sessions in the Session Downloads page.

Cute Art Class Video

New Jenni

New Sets by Jenni

People have been asking for more "natural" poses. We took the opportunity of having Jenni here to photograph a model doing fairly natural things. We started by bringing in a prop we've never used before, a bed, and asked her to do some things she might normally do in bed. She did different sleeping postures, moved on to taking her night clothes off, reading in bed, etcetera. We also put a few artsy poses in there (we just can't seem to help ourselves). Later in the set she moved on to some sports related activities; some pushing, pulling, moving poses and some more artistic poses. At the end, we finished with a completely free form Expressions Session, in which Jenni did a creative and fabulous job! You can see the poses as they are finished in the Poses page.

Art Model Eliot

New Model Eliot

People have been asking for more variety in body types. We worked with Eliot to add a thinner male and an Asian male to our catalog. His poses are becoming available now in the Poses Page.

Art Models 6

New! Art Models 6 Downloads Now Available

Art Models 6 brings richer shadows to a large collection of female-only poses. Features include 24 views per pose on the Companion disk or download (front and side views in the book), plus detail views for several of the models. See all the poses and get the Companion Download on the Companion Downloads page. If you prefer the eBook, with just 2 views per pose, it is available on the eBooks page. On either page, you can preview every pose in the book.