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of the 18 Days of Christmas Giveaways. This is the last post, however, the
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I want to welcome Cover Artist and Photographer extraordinaire,
Taria Reed to the blog!
The Giveaway Today
is:
A $10 iTunes Giftcard
The Rafflecopter Task of the Day is:
Like Taria Reed's
Facebook Page
1. What’s it
like to photograph sexy images of models for The Reed Files stock site?
I keep things in
the studio very light on shoot day. Even though my models are in sexy, erotic,
passionate positions, they are usually only three clicks away from busting out
in laughter. We joke, we shoot silly videos, we dance, we take silly pics,
shoot day is one big ball of fun.
2. What is your favorite cover that you
designed?
Hmmmm I honestly
can’t really answer this. I love all of my covers but for different reasons.
Here are a few of my favorites and why.
Taker of Life by F.L. Bicknell
This was the first
cover where I photographed the models as well as did the design. It started off
with a very bad drawing and when I showed the models what I wanted they flat out
laughed at me. Once they got to my studio and into costumes they weren’t laughing
as hard. But once I got the shot, I KNEW I hit the jackpot. I got exactly what
I wanted and It was such an amazing feeling. When the art work was done I was
beyond proud of myself. I was not only a new cover artist, I was a cover
photographer too.
January Black by
Wendy S. Russo
This was one of the
first covers I had to design that needed to rely on mood and not a person.
There are so many layers that creates that awesomely spooky gate scene and I
was so proud of how it turned out. It gives off that drama and spookiness but
at the same time invites you in to explore what’s beyond the gate.
Dakota Captive
by Alythia Brown
ok seriously, look at this cover it’s gorgeous. I got free reign to do whatever
I wanted and I fell in love with the outcome. I finally got to do a cover with
a pretty girl in a beautiful dress. A dress whose train I constructed from
scratch by the way…lol. I’d love it if I had a dress like that in my studio but
it took me about 2hrs to digitally put that together. Again I took the
photograph of the young lady for this cover so it is very special to me.
Council Courtship by Constance Phillips
Again another one
of my stock photos but that’s only one reason why I like it. I can see the
desire and passion in this cover. How often does one get to create a scene from
inside fairy land with sparkling sexy passionate fairies? HAWT!
3. Do you nail your covers on the first try?
Oh goodness no. I wish it
were that easy. Most times my concepts are accepted with some tweaks and then
there are those occasions where I have to step back and rethink what I want and
what will sell the book and start from scratch. For example the cover you know
and love for A Stiff Kiss by Avery Olive was not the first option I gave the
publisher. My first attempt was deemed too dark so I kept the dark mood but
gave it a less menacing feel and we hit the jackpot with the new cover.
Thanks so much Taria for
stopping by! To learn more about Taria's work, click the links below. Remeber,
she's a photographer, a cover artist, a custom stock image creator, a mother, a
husband... And much, much more!
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