claytonbruster’s Profile

Clayton Bruster has over 35 years experience in photography with the past 6 working as an industry professional and artist. He has worked with over 200 models on portfolio updates and creation. Clayton has been featured on many websites and has been published in 5 photography coffee table books. He has also worked for Macy's on over 16 special events for event photography, before/after make over pictures and glamour headshots.

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Clayton was the founder and president of NoVAL (Northern Virginia Artist League), presentation chair and exhibits chair for CRAG (Centreville Regional Art Guild) and an active member of CBAG (Colonial Beach Art Guild) where he did monthly art walks and had his work up constantly in business locations and galleries for the past two years. Clayton also received the coveted "Citizen Of The Year" award in 2003 from Centreville, Virginia for his work in promoting the arts in the community.

Well known for his ability to put a model at ease, so personalities, as well a model’s intrinsic beauty comes across in the final image. If this sounds too good to be true, please come see for yourself, as other have.

He is also known for his digital darkroom work and Photoshop abilities as well as printing. He has worked with digital darkroom, darkroom, fine art printing in the dark room, toning, Gum Di-chromates, Cyan-O-Types, Van Dyke Browns, liquid emulsions, emulsion transfers and more. He has toned with gold, platinum, selenium and copper as well as the more common toners like browns and cyans. He has also used teas and coffees for toning.

In the digital darkroom, Clayton works a lot with layers, effects, and layer effects. Combining images into composites and montages.