In our blog series about how to have the best headshot for your portfolio, your social media presence and even your business cards, we’d be remiss if we didn’t talk about hydration. Most people don’t believe that hydration is an important step, but it’s actually one of the most important ones to take for […]
During our winter stretch, we had a marathon day of boudoir photoshoots. One of our clients, Sati, was like most women when we had our first talk about the shoot – she was a ball of nerves about whether she could look right for boudoir photography, what she would wear, how to pose… but as […]
As always, here at Images by Studio MAP we always post our annual do’s and don’ts for posting Halloween pictures online. This holiday comes around once a year, it’s the only time when you can dress up as your favorite villain or hero, or even that provocative costume that you always wanted to wear, but it’s […]
I remember sitting at my computer and we (Camille and I) were talking about doing an editorial photoshoot about arranged marriages that are still going on around the world. How or why we got on this topic is beyond me, but it got our creative juices flowing. This is when we called upon one of […]
LOL, ok I will admit that this was a long time coming but to be honest, change is good. Why the change after all of these years of being Michael Ali Photography? Well that is a long story and that is why this blog is here. When we first started the site, just like everyone […]
This is going to be one of the weirdest blogs/podcasts that we have done in the past couple of years, but believe me, it is worth it to read/listen to this. A couple weeks ago a friend of Camille’s passed away, and when she went to read the obituary, there was only a photo of […]
So the summer is over and now the fall is here…..YEAH……Wait who am I kidding? I hate the cold! LOL In anycase it’s been a while for us to blog and yeah I do feel bad for it, but we have been busy and with it comes some delays, one was unfortunately is the blog. […]
As a photographer there are those moments where things just come into place at the right moment and time, and this shot (to the right) was one of them. My daughter visiting from San Francisco was looking outside during the rain and asked “dad it is summer, why is it raining right now?” Well she […]
Over the last couple of week, we here at Studio MAP had the chance to work with a client that wanted some macro photography, and his choice of subject, flowers. Nature and the world of Macro always fantasized me and I wanted to dive into this more and see what type of results that I […]
So this is the final part of our three part series on Boudoir photography that we started two months ago. Our final model shown here was very nervous before getting in front of the camera but once she got in front of the lens, it became magic. Our final model is actually our MUA! She […]