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Someone once asked me a question: “How do you get the perfect headshot?” Well, my answer would be quite long. There are many aspects which make the perfect headshot, portrait or beauty shot. The person standing in front of the camera or the model must be in a very relax mood. I have to tell you that at...
Four days ago, I was going through my DVDs and I was completely lost. I wanted to Fashion and Glamour portfolios and honestly I didn’t know where to start. I have over 10,000 photos in my library so it is kind of difficult. So I started narrowing them down until I came to my final...
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Hi Zdenka! I’m not a real professional photographer yet, just a hobbist, so it may be that my case is somehow simpler. Anyway, I generally and up with a 2-3 hundreds of pictures per session. The first thing I do, after of course removing the obviously bad ones, is taking them in batches of sequential photos having a similar setup/position. For instance, if the first 12 photos have the model standing, that’s my first batch. If the next photo is somehow different (because either the pose changed, or the dress, or the field of view changed, etc.), then that will belong to the next batch. For each batch I count how many pictures there are in it, and I blindly decide how many pictures I want to keep. This is done _a priori_, without necessarily even looking at the pictures at all. I generally end up with a number less then five. Then I start deleting. Deleting is an iterative process, I go through the pictures in the batch several times and every time I delete one or two, until I get down to the number I decided before.
At the end, I usually end up with around 50 pictures per session. I use f-spot (it’s a Linux application, but I bet there are similar programs for Windows and Mac too) to catalogue them: I tag them, and give a rating to the best ones. This way, if one day I’ll need to make my own portfolio, I’ll just have to browse trough the best pictures, and not all of them. If your program doesn’t allow rating, then you could just tag with the word “portfolio” the best ones, or even create tags for rating, such as “5stars”, “4stars”, etc.
But no matter what, a tagging software is a must. 
Hi Alberto,
Thank you for sharing your tips… I really like the tag idea. You don’t end up having such a hard time narrowing photos as I did. It took me about 4 days to go through all my images to decide what I really like having here… I also like your website – http://photo.mardy.it/ keep up the good work.
Zdenka
I shoot lots of images to find an image where the model is most feminine, vulnerable, sexy and confident all at the same time..
Hopefully it is the photo that surrounds her in the best natural light available.
Regards
Steven
I receive many emails requesting Glamour & Boudoir Photoshoots where I read: “I am new to modeling, I don’t know how to pose”. As some of you already read my biography, I used to model myself for some time… well… 15 years in total. You don’t need to be a great poser to get the...
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Dear Zdenka,
i love,love your new web site and im so glad to be part of it,as getting to know you over the years our friendship grow more and more and i learn a lot from you.
thanks million times for being my mentor,shooting with you i learn each time more and more and you the BEST female photographer i get to work with.every time i travel and shoot with other photographers i think of you.
YOU definitely know how to capture the moment….bring me to the best mood possible..and get the best result.
so thanks you for everything u done for me and im so proud that we make the COVERS….hope many more to come, cant wait to see you and shoot with you again and all the best to you and your lovely family
love, Iona
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