Gearing up for the Fourth of July

Gearing up for the fourth of July with the Family.  Looking for a long awaited time to rest and hide the phone.  Photo above is this issue of onetalentsource.com E-Magazine.  Model Ciera Samuels OTS #28820 is the feature model for this issue about marketing.

We are only days away from the SOS Event 5 in Surfside and we are busy making some cool props for this event.   We have some really unique models, location and props to add to this years big event.  For those that have not registered yet as a photographer, please do so before we close the event.  We have makeup artists coming early to work on models in advance of the shoot starting.

Click HERE  to register. 

We are kicking off our second Wet n Wild workshop for July 31st with three amazing models and only six photographers.  We will shoot the models in a private pool with fog, smoke, gel lights, reflecting pond and outdoor showers.  It is Wet and Wild with models in some Haute Couture Makeup.

The first one we did some color gel lights in the garden tub and the photos looked really cool, but this time we are bring in the shower outside.  Here is a photo from the first Wet n Wild at the beginning of the month.  Photo below is Model Annicia Davis OTS #26717 with Makeup Artist Alicia Guevara. 

A few weeks ago we did our second paper design workshop at the cotton gin.  We had 14 photographers and eight amazing models at it.  It was Hot and Haute to say the least.  We would have to say that dispite the hot temperatures the photos were amazing.  Here is one from that event with Model Kimmi Hunter a long time model on OTS # 18245. 

We hope everyone has a great fourth of July as we celebrate with our families and friends.  Be safe and be happy in no matter what you do.  I leave you with a photo from our kids Sweet n Sassy Runway workshop of Photographers Chris Fords oldest daughter Megan age 24.  lol 

Gearing up for the Wet n Wild Photography/Modeling Photo Shoot Mini-Workshop

Photo example of WET N WILD Model Lisa.


Gearing up for the Wet n Wild Photography/Modeling Photo Shoot Mini-Workshop this weekend. We are really excited about this one. Special thanks to Americans Next Top Model for giving us this idea in one of their episodes. We have some awesome models and photographers attending with lots of surprises for them all. Look for the photos on Sunday to start coming in. We already have a Wet n Wild 2 scheduled along with a waiting list of who wants to come.

Next weekend is a fun weekend with Urban High Fashion Workshop Photo Shoot for teens and up along with a Saturday night Sweet Sassy Runway Workshop Photo Shoot for kids. We have opening for both and registration is located on www.thephotobinder.com.

PDP2 Photo of Model Sasha Grether

Last week, we had a HAUTE time at the Cotton Gin doing Newspaper Design Workshop Photo Shoot. The concept was the second time we did this from 2008. It is a hard workshop that a lot happens from behind the scenes. The out come and photos being posted makes this well worth the trouble of doing this. Newspaper dress and Hair is by Robin Binder and all makeup of all eight models are by Heather Boilek – Pink Ink Makeup. To see all the photos from this event click here.



Here is Model Pamela Rai in the wedding dress from the Corpus Sunrise Sunrise Series a few weeks ago. The photos from this are just breath-taking and can be seen by clicking here. We have a fun beach shoot for kids and teens. They are all posted on thephotobinder.com web site.

We went to talk Houston Camera Co-Op Store and they are now one of our sponsors for our workshops. We loved the store and it has some great deals going on inside. They are helping to sponsor our biggest Beach shoot this summer; the SOS.  Model below is Theresa from last years fourth annual SOS.

What is SOS? Swimsuit on Sunset or Sunrise is July 17 and July 18 in Surfside TX close to Galveston Beaches . We rent a Large beach house in Surfside with a deck and offer Photographers to come for both days and the beach house for $300. This workshop is our largest workshop of the year. We bring in over 100 people to this workshop. Believe it or not, but no one is on top of each other. We have Male and Female Models attend and if you are a model wanting to attend, please email me at thephotobinder@aol.com with your name, email, portfolio link or three photos, phone contact, age over 16 and which day you can attend. For a limited time; Photographers can register for a discounted price.

We are leading a walk this year for the third year for the Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walk set for the weekend July 24th. Each leader takes 50 photographers and this is all over the world. One of the Sponsors are Flickr, CLICK here to learn more. http://www.flickr.com/groups/wwpw3/ We picked the Galveston Strand for a Sunrise Photo Walk this year. This is a location that hasn’t been done before. Last year signed up for our second one and did another as a walk on. They are so much fun and great way to meet other photographers. And this year they have the coolest t-shirts that you must get. It’s a social photography event where photographers get together (usually in a downtown area or trendy section of town) to walk around, shoot photos, and generally have fun with other photographers. Did I mention that it’s FREE. We had over 900 Photo Walks and over 32,000 people who participated around the world last year! That’s a HUGE leap from the 236 locations and 8,324 people we had the first year.


Grand Prize: $1000 Adorama Gift Certificate and 1-Year Subscription to Kelby Training Online

People’s Choice: $750 Adorama Gift Certificate and 1-Year Subscription to Kelby Training Online

10 Honorable Mentions: $250 Adorama Gift Certificates

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 Register – www.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 Register – www.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

See whos going; http://onetalentsource.net/showthread.php?969

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

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.

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.

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.

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.