Elements of Glamour IV

Hollywood knows glamour sells, and in 1953, Playboy took glamour to new heights thanks to a young man named Hugh Hefner. At that point, glamour pushed the envelope by including nudity. Though nudity is not a requirement in glamour, “showing a little skin” is often a trademark of glamour, not the theatrical make-up and fancy clothes used by your local mall studios to create so-called glamour shots. Adding a touch of glamour to your photography is easy, it only requires one or more main elements of glamour, and photographers shooting for magazines today are successful in incorporating this in their work. One of the elements of glamour is to incorporate a clean background, separating the subject from the background, often accomplished with medium to long telephoto lenses. Lens compression, found naturally in telephoto lenses, helps eliminate natural clutter, or distracting details. Tight cropping of the subject to eliminate the background is a basic fundamental of photography that helps separate the subject even more.