On the Beach With Erik Fankhouser

(Photos by Per Bernal)
I have just one question: Does Erik need such a large pouched poser?

Tuesday Trio

Dennis Wolf

Evan Centopani: Photo by Per Bernal

T.J. Humphryes (whom we don't see often enough)

Yesterday's "Unknown Model"

Thanks to all for identifying Unknown as Julian Greaux. For some really great hi-res images of Mr. Greaux you must visit his website. Just click on the title above and take a look.

Monday Variety

Rich Gaspari

Photo by Weider Health & Fitness

Kenny Milne
Unknown Model

Variety

Stan McQuay

Photo by Robert Reiff

Armin Scholz

Armon Abidi

Photo by Alex Ardente

John Napolitano

Photo by Adrian Jones

Larry Vignette

Photo by Paul Buceta

Peter Putnam

Photo by Ian Logan

Tito & Chris Work Their Abs

Tito Raymond photos by Robert Reiff

Chris Jalali photos by:

1 & 2 Robert Reiff

3. Alex Ardente

From EXERCISE FOR MEN ONLY magazine

A little cooling off is needed I think and apparantly #2 agrees.

Photos by:

1. Nikos

2. Empyrean Photography

3. Norbert Torriente

4 & 5. Bill Terry

Denis Sergovskiy

Photos by Irvin Gelb

Some stats from Graphic Muscle

The Story of a Scan

I thought you might be interested in how I create some of my scans.

First I take a picture from a magazine and scan it into my computer. Often it looks like this with lots of print, sometimes on the model's body (hey, I can put up with a lot of things but I hate it when they defile the flesh). This is Denis Sergovskiy from Reps! magazine photographed by Irvin Gelb.

Then I find a way to fill in the background using bits and pieces from the image itself or from other scans. Sometimes I can erase some or all of the script overlaying the flesh but usually I end up cropping the image.

Once I've taken care of the parts I don't like and filled in the background the fun part begins. I experiment with highlighting parts of the image, altering color and hue, brightness and contrast, light and shadow until I'm satisfied with the result.

HODGEPODGE

Frank Nezdoba

(Robert Reiff Photography)

Exercise for Men Only unknown model
(Empyrean Photography)

Trey Brewer

(unknown photographer)

Melvin Anthony

Toney Freeman

Unknown

EXERCISE for MEN ONLY

Evan Centopani II

Photos by Per Bernal