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 Shooting Beauty With Broncolor Paras vs. Beauty Dish
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Shooting Beauty With Broncolor Paras vs. Beauty Dish

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 [...]

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 How We Shot It | Glow: Makeup & Lighting
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How We Shot It | Glow: Makeup & Lighting

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 [...]

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 Lighting Lesson: How I Use Color Gels in My Studio Beauty Work
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Lighting Lesson: How I Use Color Gels in My Studio Beauty Work

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 [...]

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 Lighting Lesson: How To Use Contrast of Light To Photograph Beautiful Skin
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Lighting Lesson: How To Use Contrast of Light To Photograph Beautiful Skin

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 [...]

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Categories
  • Business & Career
  • Makeup & Creative Team
  • Retouching Skills
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Products
  • All-in-One Beauty Retouch All-in-One Beauty Retouch $373.00 Original price was: $373.00.$287.00Current price is: $287.00.
  • Beauty Retouching for Beginners Beauty Retouching for Beginners $87.00
  • Beauty Retouch v5 Beauty Retouch v5 $89.00
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Hi, I’m Julia Kuzmenko McKim, a commercial beauty photographer and retoucher, and the founder of Retouching Academy. For over a decade, I’ve shot and retouched campaigns and e-commerce imagery for brands like Urban Decay, Hourglass Cosmetics, Pat McGrath Labs, Lululemon, and many others.

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