Customer Reviews
Disappointing - By: R. Jeffries, 25 Jun 2007 
I'm afraid I found this book very disappointing.
As someone has already mentioned, the target market for this book will only aspire to the models & locations Mr Gomez shoots in. There are no diagrams of set-ups, although every image is accompanied by details of how wonderfully expensive his equipment is, & in many cases reads like a catalogue for various lighting manufacturers.
In some places it's an interesting read, but it makes the fundamental mistake of either being too simple for some, but too complicated for others.
I should also point out that, in my opinion, the best images in the book were not even taken by the author, but are attributed to others.
A little misleading - By: J. Green, 16 Apr 2007 I have little experience of photography in general, so getting into glamour has been a new challlenge for me. "Garage Glamour" immediately sounds like it's intended audience are those like me, new, with little or no prior investments made & in need of the basics to be covered quickly.
And Rolando doesn't do a bad job with the book which broadly covers this wide-ranging subject. However, this is no "Glamour for Dummies" title either - there's plenty of paragraphs of talk, but no tutorials or helpful "Tips" boxes. Not that you would want to turn up to a studio & intently follow a book while talking to your model & fumbling with your camera...
However, the only "examples" given are mainly of top-quality shoots featuing Playboy models. Where is the "Garage Glamour" in that? Each picture is usuallly captioned with the expensive equipment used & in some cases includes the assistants holding reflector dishes & even ringflash battery packs above the infinity pools in exotic locations. Totallly inappropriate for the readership. Where the suggested lighting setups with figure diagrams were I don't know. Some posing tips are given, but not an awful lot. His pages on lens selection cover tight angles where 100mm+ are recommended (you'll need a large studio), with one paragraph on wide-angle shoots where background is important. I'm shooting in a smalll studio where wide angle is a necessity.
He's even got Playboy models posing against the beautiful marble interiors of his home. A setting only the very privileged can associate with.
The book's not bad, but the examples are way off the mark. Don't buy this if you're expecting tutorials.
