Nudes & Centerfolds: How To Light Them & Get Paid Doing It

Nudes & Centerfolds: How To Light Them & Get Paid Doing It

Dean Capture, a professional photographer with over 20 years of experience behind the camera, has spent the last 10 years living in Los Angeles, shooting the most beautiful nude models and porn stars on the planet. He's shot covers, centerfolds, featured layouts for magazines like Penthouse and his work is regularly published on the largest, most successful adult websites on the internet. So, if it's always been a dream of yours to make a living out of shooting nudes and glamour then this post can help make that dream a reality.

It's no secret that I don't shoot nudes and have harbored a considerable amount of prejudice towards "those photographers". You know the ones? The guys who only pick up a camera so they have an excuse to get a girl's clothes off. So when Patrick suggested I do a post on Dean Capture my knee jerk reaction was, "Are you crazy? No way, forget about it." But in the spirit of open mindedness and because Patrick scares me just a little, I decided to look into it. And you know what I found? Dean, and many like him, are skilled, artistic, consummate professionals who are making a living doing what they love and I'm a tad jealous.

Dean recently posted the results of his Shyla Magazine Shoot in our forums, detailing his set up. He even goes a step further and provides us with an instructional ebook of the shoot. Download ebook.

In addition to his recent forum post you should check out Dean's ProGlamour Blog. Where you can find regular updates on his shoots, tutorials, industry info, T&A umm I mean Q&A video podcasts and more.  If your goal is to break into this market Dean's blog will no doubt be a wealth of knowledge for you.

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Been holding this damn camera in my hand since 1991.
Toronto / New York City

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Im the only one who thinks that lighting is one of the most boring ways to light a model?

Anyone else find the ebook and blog links don't work?  Server overload maybe?

Download link for the ebook gives a "404 not found" error

That's because this article is at least 2 years old.

I'm getting malware notifications from those outbound links?

Insane lighting set up. I love it.

None of the links in this post work.