Lance Tyler’s Background…

Hello, I’m Lance Tyler. Welcome and thanks for taking the time to find out more about me and what I am all about.

I’m a Freelance Photographer and Model Consultant, that accepts various assignments with all types of people. I have enjoyed photography for a number of years.

I found out my love of photography and videography by accident. Years ago when I was a teenager, visiting my sister and brother-in-law in South Jersey, I stumbled across their 35mm camera and started playing with it. It was heavy (compared to today’s cameras) but had all the exciting gadgets and attachments. I loved how it made me look when I looked in the mirror, like I was all grown up working for newspapers and magazines (remember Superman and the Spiderman cartoon?).

Well, me being a teen… I did what some teens do… I stole it. Thinking I got away with it, I brought it back home with me. I would sneak it out of the bag while my mother was in the kitchen cooking or on the telephone, and I’d be in the living room in front of the mirror looking at myself with the camera in my hands and pretending to take some shots of a tree swaying in the breeze right outside the window. Or try to catch a car as it passed by. Or try to zoom in to see who was coming out of the corner store. Making the sound effects with my mouth as I pretended to snap the picture because I still hadn’t figured out how to work the camera completely yet.

I don’t remember how many days later, after being home from my visit to my sister’s house, but I was awakened with one of the many ass-whipping’s my mother gave me in my lifetime. I honestly had no idea what I had done this time because like I said, I thought I’d gotten away with taking my sisters camera. I thought I’d forgotten to take out the garbage again or that she found out that my homework wasn’t done or something like that. I had no idea that she had just gotten off of the phone with my brother-in-law.

Well, to make a long story short… I got my ass kicked… gave the camera back… and was grounded for the next two summers. But the way I looked and felt with that camera in my hands, stayed with me.

I dabbled in almost every type of job / career there was. Only to harbor the feeling of “something was missing”. When going shopping, or passing billboards or seeing a nice landscape or a pretty girl… I’d wish I could see it over and over.

Then I met Rosalyn. (my youngest son’s mother). While I was with her, I bought my first camera, a Pentax ME 35mm and an 80-200mm zoom lens from the local pawn shop. One afternoon, we were walking through Vailsburg park and I decided to take a couple of shots of her. Roz didn’t protest, she was kinda “hammy” back then.

Well, when the pictures came back, I was amazed at how well I did with my new camera. From that point on, I treated that camera like it was my american express card… “don’t leave home without it…”

As time went on and priorities changed… the camera got put in a bag and stored away, only to be taken out for special occasions and for a family trip to see the WWE (WWF back then) at Madison Square Garden… Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior and a few others that were big names back then. My photos came out beyond my expectations. I chose the right brand of film, the right film speed, and with sitting in a pretty lame seating section, I was still able to compose the shot to maximize the effects of getting hit or thrown.

I loved it!

Fast forward to the year 2000. I met Topaz online though our mutual personal ads. She also had black and white nudes posted on an artistic photography message board. So needless to say, I felt this was right up my alley and decided to whip out the camera again. But this time it was a video camera. I purchased a JVC mini DV camera and started filming. I also picked up the Sony Mafia CD1000 digital camera (burns the images onto a mini cd). One thing led to another… the next thing we knew, we were building an adult web site with all of the pictures and video that we’d taken. My photos of Topaz helped get us both recognized by a few key people, namely, magazine publishers, producers, other webmasters, movie critics, talent scouts and other photographers.

Then I moved on to shooting with the Olympus E-10 and the Canon GL-1.

Fast forwarding to 2005, I have tremendous support from new friends and family which allows me to really go after my endeavors with as much determination and desire as humanly possible. I’ve upgraded my photo equipment AGAIN, which now includes both digital and film cameras, studio lighting, various studios to accommodate my shooting, updated computer systems, and most of all, continuing my education to further advance my skills. I’ve been a photographer for a line of magazines and web sites, both mainstream and adult. I’m also a producer for various video projects (mostly adult web sites).

To Be Continued….