I understand now after all these years it’s about confidence and control. How do you coax a nervous client to relax and trust your direction? Sigh.īeing in front of the camera can be uncomfortable for many people. Some people are more open than others but that doesn’t matter to me, what matters to me is when they drop their guard and get that soul shot coming out from their eyes and you know you’ve captured it and they will see that I can see it and I got it and it’s remarkably beautiful. You meet someone, you discuss what they want and what they will wear, and you watch them get pampered in the make up chair and then they are in front of you. What is your favorite part about a glamour session? Mostly for me, I love the online education that is available it is extraordinary. The ability to share images and words and stories and have them impact people all over the world is amazing. I have to say the connection to the entire planet is what blows me away the most. Of course we didn’t have email or the internet of social but I just loved embracing each new technology as it came forward and have marveled at the advancement each one brings to my business. How has social media changed your business? You’ve also been in the photography industry for close to 26 years. You have a large following on social media and you are incredibly positive and upbeat in your interactions with those followers. I have seen the evolution of Film to digital, had to learn Photoshop on version one, and I knew that to stay alive through the years you had to evolve and learn constantly and stay fresh and replenished creatively but change is the one constant. Nothing prepared me for the first 3 years in business. I designed my first website and everyone told me I was crazy, don’t just offer Glamour they said but I knew in my heart that’s all I wanted to do.
I was modeling myself back then on Herb Ritts. I had only worked in one studio and I had evolved Glamour into Contemporary Portraits. By 2003 I was 32 and ready to go out on my own. But I kept the makeover aspect and just kept shifting our brand, shooting all natural light and modernizing it and not calling it glamour anymore. Can you give us some background on glamour photography and how this became your niche?Īround 1992 Glamour started to fade away and even become undesirable but I was young and didn’t want to shoot families and weddings but our studio was evolving fast to stay alive so I had too. You specialize in photographing women and glamour photography in particular. It was like an apprenticeship – I was learning and shooting in the weekends and at 22 years old I was allowed to do my first Studio shoot for them. One of my retouching clients was a Glamour Studio and soon after, they employed me as their in house retouch artist. For my 18th birthday I bought myself a Minolta X300 and I started shooting everything that moved. It was back in the dinosaur days of film so we retouched with dye onto the photo. It was Augand my first job was as a Retouch Artist.
I started in the Photographic Industry when I was 18.
Please tell us a little bit about yourself and where you got your start in photography. Hello Sue! I know that so many people are looking forward to meeting you and learning from you at Click Away! Your positive spirit is infectious and we are excited for our readers to get to know more about you prior to San Antonio.
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