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We host monthly workshops for photographers, models, actors and makeup artist. We do this in unique location with a different concept in hopes that everyone involved can add their photos to their portfolio and build it up.

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Friday, May 28, 2010

Gearing up for Kids and Teen Photo Sessions

 Don’t miss the Fun and Excitement this Summer.


June is for Kids and Teens to get updated Photos.
June 12 - SSR2
Sweet Sassy Runway 5PM to 7PM (ages 4-10 ; get nails, hair, makeup and attire) - $40

Click here to Registerwww.onetalentsource.com/workshops/SSR2.cfm

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June HFW
High Fashion Workshop – all ages
Dates;
  • June 2
  • June 8
  • June 16
  • June 24
Sign up for your time slot $25
Click here to Registerwww.onetalentsource.com/workshops/HFW.cfm

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June 26 – BFF
Beach Fun Fashion Workshop for kids from 7am to 10am
To add your child email thephotobinder@aol.com
  • Name of Teen
  • OTS Number
  • Parent Name
  • Email
Subject: BFF
See whos going; http://onetalentsource.net/showthread.php?970

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June 26 – BFF
Teen Splash Shoot Workshop for teens from 5pm to 8pm
To add your child email thephotobinder@aol.com

  •  Name of Teen
  • OTS Number
  • Parent Name
  • Email
Subject: TSS
Private Photo Sessions available for your budget;

Contact thephotobinder@aol.com for your Private Photo Session and get updated photos for your needs.
 All Ages and All Concept

Thursday, May 13, 2010

Gearing up for Wild-Wild West Photography Workshop in Austin


Photo is of model Lisa from the HHN and photos are still being processed and hope to be finished this week. We issued the 8th edition of the OTS E-magazine; Lots of amazing articles and photos listed, if you get a chance, take a look at the OTS members and their very talented Memoirs. www.onetalentsource.com/mag2.cfm; Cover Model is Cheyenne.



We are Gearing up for Austin TX tonight and a long weekend with Photo EXPO, seminars and a Sunday morning sunrise Wild-Wild West Sexy Workshop. We are looking forward to this BIG networking weekend. We have lots of friends that are meeting up with us up there from all over TX. Generally looking forward to the trip.

We finished up the Senior 2011 Campaign photos for all the models we worked with and they are all posted on onetalentsource.net Forum Workshop under S2C Thread. Here is a photo that I’m sharing from that really FUN workshop. Model Heather is in this photo below.


Next week we are heading South to Corpus Christi and working with some amazing models and photographers in that area. We are doing our SSS1 (Sunrise Summer Series) Mini Workshop. We are doing Swimsuit, High Fashion and Trash the Dress on the Beaches of Corpus. We have a hand full of photographers and models attending this. We have our second SSS2 workshop for Galveston set for June 6th. Opening for this workshop are still available.  Registration can be done by clicking here.  This is mini workshop where we will meet up before sunrise and we are paying models to be there for Swimsuit, High Fashion and Trash the Dress on the shores at a Private Location.  Only a hand full are allowed to register then it will be closed.



We kicked off several workshops this week; we kicked off our Wet n Wild Workshop and in two days it filled up. We do plan to have another Wet n Wild workshop. We have others that wanted to attend, but they can come watch and help with lighting. This is a workshop of High Fashion Makeup with Gels and Dry Ice, Fake Rain and a third setup in the Garden Tub with Floating Fruit and High Fashion Material. Should be amazing.  Models and Makeup Artists are really excited and many are on our waiting list for the next shoot.  We might have to the next one on a Friday Night since many of our weekends are set for workshops.



We have the most requests for kids’ workshops so this next month is for the kids; we kicked off three. We have Workshops for Kids and Teens alike. June 12, we have a Sweet Sassy Runway workshop for girls 4 to 10 years old – they get nails, makeup, hair and attire for a low price of $40. We have over 18 slots available. This is a private party for just them, photographers will have setups with light stations for them to get some amazing FUN Sassy Photos on their Runway along with their PINK Limo. Spread the word and sign up fast.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Gearing up for Mothers Day Weekend


Photo above is Model Brittany Binder from our HNN workshop.


Haute is want we would describe this past weekend. We had a blast and got to take some amazing Haute Hollywood Photos with some dramatic Lighting in a unique Houston Night Club. We had 15 photographers and 10 models along with 3 makeup-artists and 1 hair stylist working as a great team. The details that were planned to make this happen just fell into place like clockwork. All models were experienced and professional to the tee. Congrats the Dallas photographer that won the $25 printing door prize to Mpix.com;

Above is another photo of Model Lisa Matthew from this amazing HHN workshop. Please take a minute to see all the photos from this event on http://onetalentsource.net/showthread.php?928


I am looking forward to taking this weekend off from shooting due to Mothers Day weekend. Due to Mothers Day we are running a Onetalentsource.com Yearly membership special for $29.95..

Here is our advertising banner to kick that off. Model Adele Spears in this ad.


We are doing many photo sessions during the summer so we make a advertising ad with Model Jessica Kemski; photos from our Senior workshop.

We hope you all come join us next week at the Ragin Cajun in Sugar Land for Marc’s birthday; all the photographers come around 6pm and stay til 9pm. Great food and drinks along with lots of photo talk;


Many workshops are being posted soon. You hear it here first. The end of the month we are doing a Wet n Wild – High Fashion makeup Water Photography/Modeling Workshop. This photo workshop is going to be small and will not be advertised on other sites. We are only taking 10 photographers and 6 models and 2 makeup artist at a pool and hot tub. I have an example of what we are doing at this workshop with model Britney Rendon and photographer Kenneth Berntsen.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Gearing up for Glamour Haute Hollywood Nite Club workshop


We will start off this blog with a photo of Model Jessica Kemski taken last Sunday in Galveston’s Sunrise Beaches. A hand full of photographers and models woke up at 4am to run and beat the sunrise on the beach. We hope to get to do this again soon. Anyone wanting to join us or model at sunrise with us, please contact me at thephotobinder@aol.com and let us know. We also have the SOS workshop coming July 17/18 to flood the beaches the weekend with 100s of swimsuit models and photographers.

We are gearing up this weekend for the Glamour –Haute Hollywood Nite Club workshop. We are expecting about 45 people and it should be a great time. We have over 20 models, 4 Makeup artists and 17 Photographers at this time. We have a few more spots for photographers and it will close on Friday. The model lineup is spectacular and you can see them all on onetalentsource.net Forum under HHN workshop.


Above is model Rebecca Rutherford from New Orleans. The photo was taken at the MMM3 workshop in Fredericksburg. She is coming back this summer for our SOS.

Follow us to Austin May 16 for a Sexy western pin-up Sunrise at a Ghost Town location for our Wild-wild West workshop. We are going to also attend the Austin Photo Expo this year, FREE to photographers to attend the many seminars. Our sunrise shoot will end in time to attend Sundays Photo Expo in Austin. The location is catering breakfast for us also. Lots of fun that weekend.

Photo above is Model Anna Fernandez at the WOW4 workshop. The sunrise lighting turned out great and it was a sweet location in Brenham, TX.

June 13 is our Urban Fashion Workshop to cater to inside and outside around downtown Houston. Many have asked what is Urban Fashions and the latest City High Fashion is Urban and not to be confused with Rural. lol

Above is model Holland Nicole that attended our Senior 2011 Campaign workshop last weekend in Needville. An amazing location we love to go back to. The seniors had a blast with all the location and props around. They got to shoot inside and outside with 12 different photographers.

Stress is something that we all live with and deal with everyday. Come take the stress off your planning and details by shooting at one of our workshops. We do it all except press the button on your camera. Lol For a workshop concept photo shoot listing see www.thephotobinder.com.

We are about to post a few new workshops soon and are waiting a few dates and location approvals. Check back here on our Weekly Wednesday Blogs.

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Gearing up for our Senior 2011 Campaign



We were invited to the Houston Smug Mug meet-up this week to help with their portfolio building session. Last count was 65 photographers and over 10 models showed with 2 makeup artists. Special thanks to MUAs Alicia Perez-Guavara for coming and networking. We truly believe you need to have those MUAs phone numbers already added in your cell phone. Thou models usually are very pretty, the MUAs can make a big difference in your photos by using one at each of your sessions. Above is model Jessica Kemski and Makeup by Alicia Perez-Guevara.

This weekend is our Senior High School 2011 Campaign workshop.  Registration is closing Friday morning.  This is to help photographers create portfolio photos. This will help them with marketing photos of Seniors to help with their Senior Clientele.


Last week was our WOW4 White Outdoor Wedding workshop in Brenham. It’s a Trash the Dress with wedding dresses and we got a few models to get in the pond. Here is model Adele Spears introduced to us by Photographer Richard McCullough.

HHN on May 2 – Registration is still open. This is Sunday shoot at a local nite club in Houston. The bar is very unique and the models are first class. The bar is opening up to those want to thirst their whistle. Click here to see location photos and models attending. They even light the stage on fire around the models. This is a Glamour shoot with Hollywood type lighting. Come early and learn some style lighting. Everyone is welcome to bring lighting or come and work along side of lighting pre-set up.


May 16 is our Sexy Sunrise Wild-Wild West Pinup workshop in Austin at a Ghost Town.  Click here to register as a photographers. The location will have the kitchen open also to serve all that come out. We are excited about this sunrise shoot. Not only are we going to Austin to shoot with new talent, we will be attending the FREE Austin Photo Expo being held there all weekend with FREE seminars. Should be a great weekend.


Onetalentsource.com is having their photo contest this week, make sure you go and vote for your favorite. The winner gets put on the header of OTS front page.


Thursday, April 15, 2010

Gearing up for WOW4



First model on the spot of the HCR was Model Eleya Maureen for the amazing Sunset. Everyone helped her load her things to her plush silo rooms and then the cameras came out for three days of shooting. My feet hurt just remembering the event. lol

This weekend we are gearing up for the WOW4 in Brenham, TX. We plan on doing White Wedding dresses outside in an amazing area. We have 14 photographers and 14 models lined up to show Saturday morning. Looking forward to it.

Friday night at the HCR, we set up rotating shoots all over the Ranch and one is at a doorway with lights everywhere. This set up was designed by Photographer Mark Matthews and model is Rebecca Bertot in her western glamour. We had several setups in the top of the barn, in the barn stalls, in the big house and on the back porch. We never did get to do that pillow fight but will next time.



My son's first reply was, the background looks fake. Well it's not. This was the sunrise at the Ranch HCR weekend. Model is Britney Rendon in the bluebonnets next to the pool at the Ranch. We can't wait to repeat this weekend workshop soon. Soon after the sunrise the models and photographers took off down to the creek to meet the GOAT. photos can be seen on the HCR and MMM3 workshop on http://www.onetalentsource.com/.



We introduced wedding dresses on the MMM3 Workshop this past weekend and it worked amazing at sunset. Below is a photo of Rebecca Bertot in her element. She held the flowers for me to shoot then threw them to climb to shoot with more photographers. She was amazing. This was the shoot that wore us all out. It turned warm on us as the morning was a little chilly.



Austin is having a convention to photographers May 15/16 so we decided to go and host a western WWW West workshop at an awesome Ghost Town we got lined up to shoot at. Posting of this workshop will go up tomorrow as soon as I clone myself. lol

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Gearing up our Photography for HCR and MMM3



Here is amazing and beautiful Child Model MiKayla Childs
above from our Big Doll n Little Girl Workshop.
Now lets go back to 2006 and here is Super Model Jessica Sauer'
Photo is from our Winter Fashion Workshop. The props are real and yes they are inside our old studio. She is now walking the runway in New York City. Way to go Jessica.

We are almost pack for this weekend and heading to Fredericksburg Friday morning. All models and photographers are car pooling and packing as we speak. We have a wish list of photos to work on but we just know that there is just not enough time and energy to model shoot, repeat 10 times. lol


We did a photo session with new Model Lily Rodriquez. She was a joy to work with. Makeup artist Alicia Guevara came to the studio to do her makeup. Her hair above is up in wires and braids. Animal cover is complement of Photographer Chris Ford.
We have about eight workshops listed and open so after the workshop this weekend, come April 17th is our next workshop; Bluebonnets in Brenham with a Trash the Dress in Wedding dresses. Come shoot with us by registering as a photographer on www.onetalentsource.com/workshops/wow4.cfm