I enjoy creating art, whether a landscape, an abstraction, a slice of life or a portrait. I've been in one gallery show and plan to do more, but for now I'm mainly creating and seeing what kinds of things work and what doesn't. Sometimes I do plain old portrait type stuff, check out
http://modelmayhem.com/brandonsmithgallery
Since this is a site where models, photographers, MUA's and related folks make contact, my port here has images that show models. If any of these images interest you as a model, don't hesitate to contact me.
More examples of my images of all different kinds are at DA:
http://redwoodtwig.deviantart.com/
I generally work time for prints or CD. I will pay reasonable modeling fees if I see a port with well done nude work that shows you understand modeling and and posing and how that is different from snapshots.
If you have a specific project you want to do and you are willing to pay a reasonable fee, I will have your results to you within a week. For TFx type work, it will generally be three to four weeks.
If you are new to modeling, please be sure you take a look at
http://www.newmodels.com/ for an introduction to the industry and realize that I am only a bit player in this game. Another really excellent collection of stuff about what goes on is here:
http://blog.patyuen.com/lessons/mmhelp01/ It's mainly about model mayhem, but mostly it applies to any modeling site. The next one is on the mm forum and should be required reading before you write your profile:
http://www.modelmayhem.com/p.php?thread_id=117121
About me:
I'm retired military, but still working full time in the computer industry. I was very serious about photography for several years when I had the opportunity to work with medium and large format equipment under a talented photographer in Germany. After a long hiatus, I'm once again polishing my skills, but now with digital equipment. I strive to make the original exposure the right one, though I'm not against doing some adjustment in the computer afterwards.
I'm open to almost any kind of shoot and usually have a few ideas percolating waiting for the right model. Since I have a background in fencing and tai chi chuan, I can work with a model to get pictures with realistic sword work or interesting body work in them.
If you are interested in any of this, contact me and we can go from there.
The site
http://brandonsmithgallery.com has links to most of the places where my work is. It is more of a hodge-podge site than a "professional photographer" site because I earn my mortgage money elsewhere.
Collaborated in a two man show at the Davis Gallery on the Stephens College campus in Columbia. These are light paintings rather than modeling shoots, though most of the photos did in fact have a model making the lights move. My images from the show are at
http://synature.smugmug.com/gallery/3435936
Currently have some work on display in a couple locations. One of them is not a photo, though, it's a sculpture.
