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Am I to be scared? I’m into glamour images. I take pictures of living people. I completely rely on digital format in my work. Shall I soon become a ridiculous anachronism?

What I wouldn’t give to learn where the path of progress will lead Glamour Photographs. I would gladly tell this to you, dear fellow artist, on the pages of my glamour blog. There is a possibility that we glamour artists will no longer play our part in this miraculous world of visual art. Almost a half of the whole creative process is now performed in applications like Photoshop. Even though we still own the most responsible part, which is the taking of a picture. Nevertheless we might soon face the bitter fact that some rendering programs can do it as well.

But in order to get a feel for the future of something it is absolutely worth taking a close look at the present and also visiting the past.

In the distant past glamour images were painted with oil onto canvas. The full range from simple, innocent face portraits up to full body nude portraits was popular and was painted for example by famous artists like Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. Cameras dawned just “recently” in terms of world history – in the middle of the 19th century. They were anything but convenient, small and ergonomic – large and technically primitive, the first cameras could only be used in studios and required quite a long time to produce a single picture. It was the dawn of portraits – quite a successful one, even though people portrayed had to go through real torture of standing still for an hour or more. In order to help them hold their head, head-clamps were used. Quite obviously, the sight of a person with a clamped head had little to do with glamour.

as photography progressed, the whole process became easier. Shooting photos on film made it affordable and practical to shoot glamour photos. Such images attracted attention of magazines. I remember when the Playboy photographer David Mecey mentioned the recent time, when they took photos for Playboy centerfold with large format cameras – otherwise the quality would suffer. Poor guys had to carry around a whole lot of lights and they often drove the whole place crazy with their strobes.

Currently glamour photos are pretty much always taken with digital cameras. Those range from small to medium. The quality of the digital cameras increased in a way that it is no problem whatsoever to shoot a magazine cover with a little consumer camera.

Now future of Glamour Photography will be quite interesting. Shall we witness the dawn of 3D technology? Should it be so, then it’s already there. One of my favorite magazines on Photoshop now comprises many pieces about various 3D software. There is an increasing number of generated 3D images on the Web. I have online buddies who are complete virtual identities from Second Life and similar and who post Flickr photo streams which consists entirely of rendered images. Their very own gallery of virtual three-dimensional glamour! Surfing on the Internet, it’s quite noticeable that many people use specialized 3D software only to make up some feminine, exotic and beautiful models. The generated elf images a lot of times hold all the attributes of glamour images.

So chances are good, that I personally, the guy with the digital camera, am soon be the dinosaur in the field of glamour images. Keep that in mind, fellow artists, but don’t despair! Personally, I trust in what I do. Just as painting and film have survived, there will always be a huge demand for digital glamour images, made with a DSLR, inspiration, fine lighting and much love.

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