Beijing Blueprint Photography Tutorial Ready For Download

Last minute so to speak, I was finally able to check off another goal of mine for this year: Writing my little eBook on photography. Wow, a lot of work. But fun. The eBook shows how to do a successful glamour photo shoot. From the first crazy idea until postproduction. Everything included. Have a look at the video that I just recorded in order to take you inside the blueprint:



First watch the video, then click the button below to download your copy of the Beijing Blueprint. It's US$29.97 and it comes with my 90-Day Money Back Guarantee, no questions asked, absolutely risk free.

In this e-book I tried to answer the majority of questions that I received from other photographers online and in our local camera club over the last couple of months. I provide all the tricks and techniques that I have for such a photo shoot:

• How to keep everything under control in a photo shooting WITHOUT big effort. This is the essence of why I started to perfection my way of preparing for shootings – pg. 8
• How you easily find cooperative, beautiful glamour models, even if you would like to shoot in an exotic country like China and even if you don’t speak a single word Chinese – pg. 32
• A simple 3-step process that makes you coming up with shooting ideas for photos that will make you win contests and that will make your online buddies raving – pg. 29
• My production countdown checklist which takes you in baby steps through the bulletproof preparation of any given shooting – pg. 27
• A model release which gives you the right to use the photos in every shape and form and that a model is comfortable to sign, even if she does not speak English – pg. 34
• Straight from my rolodex – the email and phone numbers of all people (models, makeup artist, location scout,…) who were involved in the Beijing shooting so that you can do a 1:1 replication of my shooting if you wish (in the download section)
• How to pinpoint remote locations for sexy photo shootings and how to dtermine which of them is best for your particular shooting even before you visited them in person – pg.38
• How you make yourself independent of bad weather when scheduling a shooting long in advance – pg. 40
• The exact location (even Geo-coordinates) of the place where we did the shooting a – pg. 93
• Maps, background, photos and everything else about the awesome photo location KangXi Grassland in China along with a couple more locations that we scouted for our shooting – pg. 71
• How to plan and keep an overview on makeup, hairdo, clothes and props across the scenes of a shooting – pg. 41
• What you can do before a shooting in order to make sure your lighting is exactly like you want on location – pg. 44
• Which apartments in Beijing are cheaper than hotel rooms, but look so posh that they perfectly double as your location for glamour photos; and they have the most spectacular view over the city – pg. 86
• The exact choices of lenses, cameras, speedlights, remote controls and everything else which enabled me to shoot the awesome photos in Beijing – pg. 49
• Super important things you have to check when visiting your location – pg.53
• Which of your photography luggage to check in and what to keep as carry on luggage when doing airtravel – pg. 45
• What you must do in order to make sure the weather is your friend and not your enemy when shooting outdoors – pg. 51
• A checklist to go through on the day before your shooting – pg. 55
• Checklists you must go through when you leave for your location in order to be sure you got everything you need with you – pg. 58
• The deadly mistakes most photographers make regarding a schedule for a shooting and – as a blueprint – the schedule we used in our shooting in Beijing – pg. 59
• A step-by-step how to that takes you by the hand and shows you the right steps to do when you arrived on location and now want to start shooting – pg. 60
• Get the maximum mileage out of a given location by varying your point of view in a clever way – pg. 65
• A simple trick how you make it much more comfortable for your nude model to stand, knee or lay on dirty and stony ground outside – pg. 14
• A super simple lighting setup that we used in all our scenes which made our models looking super dramatic and beautiful – pg. 11
• How saying one single sentence makes all the difference in the world regarding the expression of our models – pg.12
• A fantastic way to overcome the language barrier between you and Asian models who don’t speak English and how to make them doing exactly what you want them to do – pg. 18
• A successful example on how to use simple lowcost wigs and hairparts in order to achieve a posh and fashionable look in the photo – pg. 19
• The “big secret” that I normally would not tell you about how I make my models look like they fly into the sky without any gravity, without having any big expensive equipment like cranes and rigs – pg. 22
• My secret weapon for Photoshop postproduction on a shoestring budget on the Philippines – with full contact details – pg. 66
• Everything that went wrong in the Beijing shooting in embarrassing detail and what lessons I have learned from that – I won’t hold anything back – pg. 67
• And so much more…

If any question still remains unanswered in the Beijing Blueprint, please ask right away:

e-mail: michael@zelbel.com
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Good light!
-- Michael