Aurora FireFly Duet S – photo shoot with speedlishts (YongNuo YN560 IV)

I’ve been using my beloved, super cheap YongNuo YN-560IV lamps lately. It may not be anything unusual, as I use them all the time, but this time they weren’t a supplement to studio lamps, but the only source of light. I’ve been doing this for the past few months on other shoots as well, so […]
Make Up Trends – the first beauty and the DIY boom stand

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 […]
Tomb Raider series: Lara Croft for the second time

Once again, Lara Croft in my version. The first photos with Lara (you can find a description of the photo session here) caused quite a stir – thanks to them, I started paying attention that someday I would be able to take good pictures and finally found the courage to arrange photo shoots with aspiring […]
Beauty dish – the magic of hard light

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 […]
The Vampire Diaries

I have always liked movies related to vampires. Some of them are better than others, but I guess I’ve seen most of them. I definitely consider “The Vampire Diaries” one of the best. As I know a girl that looks VERY similar to the main character of the series, I immediately thought about a photo […]