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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 [...]

This is Part II of the Industry Insider: The Art of Flawless Skin article, you can find Part I: Photography here. Raw Conversion Like many other aspects in photography, a good foundation is the [...]

On the subject of beauty photography and retouching, one of the first aspects that comes to mind is flawless skin. The core of most beauty work is the art of conveying perfection. While few [...]

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 [...]