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 [...]
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 [...]
Note from Julia Kuzmenko: “I recently had the pleasure of meeting and working with a successful Los Angeles-based Beauty model, who absolutely blew me away when she shared how eager she was [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I have been shooting for my book a lot more in the last half a year than I did during the few years prior, and among other reasons, the ease of planning a shoot, coordinating my creative team [...]
A great advantage of being the shooter of the images you retouch is that you can prevent a lot of mistakes while shooting to avoid paying for them with your time and energy in post-production. [...]
I couldn’t have said this better! Tyra Banks shares 5 modeling tips, which we photographers MUST know too. Share this with your model before your next shoot, you’ll thank [...]
Ruth Crilly – a British fashion model, writer and beauty insider with over 10 years of experience in the industry, has her own blog and a Youtube channel, which I think might be helpful for us [...]