This will be a short post, as I am including a video at the end that shows the course of the photo session. So I’ll focus on what you can’t see. Last summer, I wrote on my blog: “two unique models from Belarus caught my eye (…) during my trip, their stay in Thailand was […]
Maria came to me for a photoshoot. I met her a long time ago during some exhibition, and Damian Black mentioned her to me even earlier. Damian is a makeup artist who does makeup on models for me about once a year. So, we were supposed to take photos with Maria a long time ago, […]
In July 2011, I didn’t do photo shoots very often, and certainly organized them less frequently than I do now. I didn’t do beauty photography at all, except for one exception done as a test (which wasn’t very successful, by the way…). At that time, I realized that to take such photos, I needed a […]
To me, lighting is a fundamental factor in photography and I guess that many of you share this opinion. People use one light at the very beginning, when they don’t have more equipment, but a photo taken using one light doesn’t have to be worse than a photo taken with two or three lights. As […]
My country hosted a competition for make-up artists, organized by Dior and blogmakijaz.pl website. Its prizes included Dior cosmetics as well as training with Alex Chatti (Dior’s chief make-up artist) and Julie Bodrier (Sephora’s chief make-up creator). Karolina Zientek, a make-up artist cooperating with me on nearly every beauty shot in my portfolio, concluded that […]
I very often use a beauty dish as the key light, so I’ve decided to devote this post to it and thus give people unfamiliar with the topic a chance to learn what it is. It’s usually true that the softer the light, the better. Well, perhaps I am generalizing too much, but such is […]