It’s not a secret that the makeup application as well as the cosmetics products used for live events, video and beauty photography are very different. While it is important for the makeup [...]
I have been so wonderfully busy in the past few months shooting for my dream clients and collaborating with my dream creative teams, which left no time for me to write and I miss it 🙂 Today, I [...]
I am very humbled and thankful to see that so many people and respected publications saw this situation for what it is. On behalf of all of the independent artists, we want to thank everyone who [...]
I am a big fan of using colored gels for rim lights in my work, but there’s really so much more that you can do with them besides that. In this article I’d like to walk you through some of [...]
We all start from scratch, whether it’s a hobby, craft, or profession. The key to improvement is constant learning, deliberate practice, and refining our workflows and habits to continue becoming [...]
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 got myself into Finance [...]
We all invest a lot of time and effort into learning photography, makeup, lighting and developing our skills in the studio. We work on growing our social following, shoot and retouch tons of [...]
In the first half of this blog post I share some of the happenings in my photography life from last week, if you want to skip that for Stephen King’s advice scroll down to the STEPHEN [...]
My first long-lasting creative relationship with a Makeup Artist began back in 2011 in Omaha, NE. I met Mikala Jean Vandenbroucke through a local artistic project, and all of my work produced in [...]
Yesterday was a very strange day. It began with a sad news that my mom shared with me – a very close relative, her godmother, passed away back home in Russia. It completely disabled me, I [...]