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In my first article on Macro Beauty I shared what gear, lenses and studio tools I use, and today I’d like to talk about the capture itself. I mentioned briefly that I had attempted to shoot [...]

Before you glance over the pictures and read the entire blog post, I will note, that, ideally, most of these things are found in your makeup artist’s kit. This is not the typical stuff that [...]

If you are looking for an amazing Makeup Artist who will be obsessing over capturing perfect makeup and skin in camera together with you, and leaving very little if anything at all for you to fix [...]

By now everyone who is even slightly interested in or connected to the beauty industry has heard about the “CVS ban on retouching”. Only there is no ban, and this is not only good for [...]

2017 has been an amazing year and I was fortunate to meet and work with super talented people and wildly successful makeup and skincare brands. I had the honor to shoot and retouch multiple times [...]

It took me over a month to finally come to the boiling point to write this. I wanted to put it behind me and move on, but I keep getting new messages about what this individual is doing to my [...]

Dear fellow photographers, It has come to my attention that some privately owned cosmetics companies are collecting images from their creators and asking to sign questionable papers that allow [...]

This is Part 1 in a series of articles dedicated to my personal Beauty Retouching Workflow, developed over many years. Although I continue to modify and improve it, its direction and structure [...]

I absolutely infinitely and wholeheartedly love beauty photography and retouching. I especially love working with colleagues and clients who realize that retouching is a means to elevate an [...]

When it comes to light modifiers, we photographers have an abundance of choices today: from large softboxes and octaboxes (soft light) to zoom reflectors and silver umbrellas (hard light) and [...]