Notes from Photo Set & Retouching Studio

The path to building a strong creative team with whom you would like to work and grow together can be long and difficult. But it can also be surprisingly quick if you know exactly what [...]

I mentioned briefly that I had attempted to shoot Macro Beauty before, but I’d never been satisfied with the results until the tipping point – one successful shoot – and now, [...]

I didn’t intentionally choose to become a Beauty Photographer; I think I was always meant to be one. But right out of high school, I took a more realistic path and

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is Part I of the Industry Insider: The Art of Flawless Skin article, you can find Part II: Retouching here. On the subject of beauty photography and retouching, one of the first aspects that [...]

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 [...]