Shooting & Technique

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It usually takes a long time between an actual shoot and the day the results of a project are out for the world to see. But it’s the best feeling in the world when the results are worth the [...]

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 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 [...]

UPDATE: Back when I initially wrote this article, I did not share the model’s name thinking she just made a mistake and it was not worth ruining her career in modeling over it. But she went [...]

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 [...]

Friday is my favorite day of the week: the sweet relief of the work week ending mixed with the tickling anticipation of the exciting weekend activities. I often shoot on weekends, so I do my [...]

Light is the essence of photography. It is the first thing anyone who is even remotely interested in photography should master. And if you’re planning to work in a studio using artificial [...]