Maria Rogers - Behind The Scenes

A look with more behind the scenes segments of the video profile of Maria Rogers. This is a video and photo shoot created for BodyBuilding.com, the largest bodybuilding and fitness resource in the world.

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Maria is a figure competitor who is going to be next on stage with 400 others at the prestigious "USA" in Las Vegas in July 2007. She was selected to appear in a "BodySpace" video profile for BodyBuilding.com which included her interview and some behind the scenes views of her photo shoot with SecondFocus.

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Jamie Eason - National Print Ad

A few months ago I had the great fun of doing a shoot with the fabulous Jamie Eason. Jamie Eason is perhaps the top star and top model in the fitness business today. She has been in countless magazines, covers and features. This is just one of the latest from our photo shoot, a national print ad for BodyBuilding.ccom, the largest bodybuilding and fitness resource in the world.



I did a story on the behind the scenes from this shoot with Jamie Eason which you can see right here.

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Maria Rogers - The Video

Fitness model Maria Rogers was photographed by SecondFocus for BodyBuilding.com, the largest bodybuilding and fitness resource in the world. Video was also shot during the photo shoot by Mark Peterson of Blue Rabbit Films who edited the content for Maria's BodySpace Profile on BodyBuilding.com. Enjoy the video, it is great fun!

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Working Out With Mr. Olympia - Jay Cutler!

I bet a lot of you bodybuilding fans have thought about what it would be like to workout with a pro bodybuilder and even the big man himself - Jay Cutler. Well the only thing I really lifted was a camera but I did get to watch while Jay worked out with his lifting partners in the "Pit" at world famous Muscle Beach right on the boardwalk at the beach in Venice California.

So let me tell you how this happened. I was at the Junior California NPC competition in Pasadena CA on Saturday. Jay was in town as the guest poser for this show along with his good buddy, IFBB Pro Derick Farnsworth. Well I got the phone call in the late afternoon that Jay was possibly going to come out to the "Pit" to workout and he would also be videotaped for his brand new DVD to be released at the end of July.

I am the official photographer for the Muscle Beach Venice shows, so I was lucky enough to get the heads up. Later in the evening I got another message that it was still not confirmed but that I would know by 9 or so the following morning. So Sunday morning came along, I got the call, packed up and checked out of my hotel and headed to the beach. It looked like a good way to spend a Sunday!

Shortly after I got there, Jay came walking along the boardwalk with his buddies. And you can bet there were a lot of looks from the tourists! Although it was a cloudy day there was still plenty of people.

Venice Beach is perhaps the second or third most popular tourist attraction in the world right behind Disneyland and Las Vegas. And at Muscle Beach where most people in the world think muscles were born, the reigning Mr. Olympia came to do his back workout on a Sunday.

The same place where the careers and legends of Arnold and so many else were started. Well after Jay shook hands with some people and took a few photos with the quickly building crowd, Mr. O got down to business.

To see the whole story and more photos just go on over to BodyBuilding.com

I want to thank my very good friend Joe Wheatley for letting me know that Jay was on his way to work out. Joe is the man behind all of the great improvements taking place at Muscle Beach for the last few years. He has brought us some great competitions over the Summer, he is the man behind the BodyBuilding Hall Of Fame Awards and will shortly be officially unveiling the BodyBuilding Walk Of Fame right at the workout "Pit" at Muscle Beach. And with his vision there will one day soon be a BodyBuilding Hall Of Fame right there where it all started. So when you get to Venice Beach, be sure to stop on by, there is a lot to see. Be sure to say Hi to Joe and thank him for all his tireless efforts; And you might want to work out too!


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Behind The Scenes With Maria Rogers

I can only say that Maria is off-the-hook hot and one of the most outstanding models I have ever worked with. She is getting ready to do the USA in Las Vegas in July and I would say she is looking pretty good.

The set ups on these shoots can be fairly involved. This was the studio we used in donwtown Los Angeles. However all of the lighting equipment is brought in and set up by us. In total just for the still photography we had 6 people on set from the makeup artist, assistants and so forth. Simple things like making sure we bring food in and have a lot of water on hand are really important.


You have to communicate to models about what the shoot is about and what you are creating. It does take some direction. You cannot just tell a model to move around and fire off a few thousand shots hoping to come up with something good. Some idea of where you are going is very important. Maria was a joy to work with, she was able to just turn it on for the camera and was very aware of how to move and pose to look her best.


When at all possible in a studio I will shoot tethered. That is where the camera is shooting right into the computer and the photos come up on the screen as you go. It allows you to make adjustments to the lighting, set, makeup, hair and a myriad of other things that you might otherwise miss. Here I am shooting while Conrad is watching the screen which is a great help to me because I am really busy. Conrad is a top notch fashion post production designer and provided me with a lot of additional ideas and input. By the way over the course of a shoot like this, I only shot 241 photos. Not the thousands that some might think.


This was a very fun shoot and it resulted in a a great set of three free computer wallpapers of Maria which you can get right here. You will also see Maria in a future print ad series.

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