To all the hair and makeup people I have had the honor of working with, I want to thank you for your hard work because without you, none of my art would be possible.

I was born in Newport Beach California and currently reside here shooting various styles of photography. My love and interest started with 1940’s Hollywood Glamour photography. I have worked long and hard mastering the lighting techniques of the golden era of Hollywood style photographs. It is a labor of love in order to pull off just the right look for it to believable to the human eye. The Hollywood Masters used “Hot” lighting back in the day and is easier to see where your shadows will fall on a model. I use strobe lighting to recreate this amazing retro look that you see today.

I am a Navy brat and with my support to our troops I had a desire and interest in 1940’s Cheesecake Pinup photography. I believe I have created an original brand of pinup with a WWII fuselage as it’s background and creating a three-dimensional look that will make you doubletake, is that a cartoon or a photograph.

I also have created a series of fem fatal, Film Noir photos called “Sinister Shadows, The Dastardly Dames of the 1940’s, this series is my ode to Alfred Hitchcock as a genius film maker to provide thrills and chills as a storyteller.

My latest travels in my photography carrier have been, “Victoria’s Secrets style black & white artistic photography. Nothing more sensual as the mood lighting and shadow cast of an amazing figure of a beautiful woman being photographed this way.
Lastly this year I have ventured in the Cosplay area as my Hollywood Glamour/film cinematic lighting has shown me that using this technique and photographing will provide you with an amazing look of feel of the modern comic book movies you see today.

Michael W. Malak

To all the hair and makeups people I have had the honor of working with, I want to thank you for your hard work because without you, none of my art would be possible.

I was born in Newport Beach California

and currently reside here shooting various styles of photography. My love and interest started with 1940’s Hollywood Glamour photography. I have worked long and hard mastering the lighting techniques of the golden era of Hollywood style photographs. It is a labor of love in order to pull off just the right look for it to believable to the human eye. The Hollywood Masters used “Hot” lighting back in the day and is easier to see where your shadows will fall on a model. I use strobe lighting to recreate this amazing retro look that you see today.

I am a Navy brat and with my support to our troops I had a desire and interest in 1940’s Cheesecake Pinup photography. I believe I have created an original brand of pinup with a WWII fuselage as it’s background and creating a three-dimensional look that will make you doubletake, is that a cartoon or a photograph.

I also have created a series of fem fatal, Film Noir photos called “Sinister Shadows, The Dastardly Dames of the 1940’s, this series is my ode to Alfred Hitchcock as a genius film maker to provide thrills and chills as a storyteller.

My latest travels in my photography carrier have been, “Victoria’s Secrets style black & white artistic photography. Nothing more sensual as the mood lighting and shadow cast of an amazing figure of a beautiful woman being photographed this way.
Lastly this year I have ventured in the Cosplay area as my Hollywood Glamour/film cinematic lighting has shown me that using this technique and photographing will provide you with an amazing look of feel of the modern comic book movies you see today.

Michael W. Malak