Sensual Male Models

A lot of the male models I photograph have

never been before a camera before.

Which can be good - and can be bad!

I hand pick a lot of models just off street,

out in public. Sometimes, someone who appears very sexy

and attractive at first glance, does not photograph well.

And I have found the opposite to be true also.

Someone with average looks, really came to life in front

of the camera! So you just never know.

The model really has to be comfortable in their own skin.

I really enjoy photographing one person at a time.

Two can be tricky. It's usually harder to get that special magic shot.

When I was a teenager, I started out photographing

celebrities. Mostly concerts. People like Rod Stewart,

Bette Midler, Heart, Tina Turner, Grace Jones and the

Village People! I also did some work for Siegfried & Roy

for a while, in more recent years. -

All my life though, I have loved the male image.

The male body is so sexy and beautiful. When I was 12 I was

in love with David Cassidy and Donny Osmond!

David appeared once in Rolling Stone Magazine naked!

I thought I had died and gone to heaven. It was a black & white image.

I think it was the early eighties, I started asking

guys to pose for me. Most of what I do is

"fitness" or "physique" oriented. Sometimes the model and

I can sell the photos to someone like MENS WORKOUT,

out of New York. So it's usually always about the body.

And sometimes the models wants to do nudes.

I enjoy photographing a man's body and

trying to light it different ways.

MALE MODEL Photography and MALE PHYSIQUE Photography By Michael Snell

I really do have a great job!

I love photographing Men and the Male Body.

It's sexy, sensual, sometimes romantic,

sometimes provocative.....

and it's so great when the model can connect with the

camera. It doesn't alwayshappen, unfortunately.

I have had some beautiful men in front of the camera who

were just BLAH!And I have had some average looking

guys in front of the camera who light up and come to life!

Almost everyone is nervous about being photographed,

even if they are not nude. I spend time working with

models so that they’ll feel more comfortable, and relax into their

own body language. Then I can shoot a portrait with some sense

of who they are. I try to capture a feeling from them.

A mood.
Fortunately, this doesn’t mean that they need to

be relaxed all the time. They only need to be relaxed

in the moments of being photographed.

If they’re tense through most of the shoot but I catch

a few relaxed moments, that’s enough. -

And a good number of the men

are photograph classify themselves as straight.

So sometimes it's harder

for them to comfortable - although not always.

It just depends on how

comfortablesomeone is in their own skin.