Putting my lighting lesson to good use!

After a FANTASTIC and informational lighting lesson with Jan (Allklier photography) i had a friend and fellow makeup artist Anne Sellery collaborate on a shoot. (anne is a badass BTW)

We had a model come shoot with us that i had worked with in the past Natalya, who was fantastic and amazing to work with, i could not have asked for a better model!!!

I shot head shots, i love shooting head shots :)

I have to tell ya though, having someone else do the makeup on my shoots when i'm photographing is SO MUCH BETTER then having to do it all myself! :)

Lighting lesson with Jan

Lighting lesson with Jan (Allklier Photography)

one of the amazing photographers i work with agreed to give me a quick lesson in lighting. We had SMG model Shawn Herbold come out and i did the makeup before our session.

These were the shots that i took with the set up Jan used.

Jan showed me how to look at a photo and figure out where the light was coming from and what type of lighting was used. It was an INCREDIBLY useful lesson and i'm very thankful to have gotten it as a recent photo shoot i had with D'Angelo Midili turned out to be rather frustrating for me since i didn't even know where to begin!

Head shots at SPA

Anna Kharitonova Model

Freakishly Beautiful Makeup

Two soft boxes, white background, and a great little model. These were the head shots i created on thursday night at SPA.

very minimal touch ups done on lightroom, light/contrast/color tweaking but thats about it.

Don't really have much to say on these, except i'm very happy with how they came out.

Head shots anyone?

The amazing, the wonderful Natasha Sims was in town (Seattle) for the holidays and booked me for a head shot photo session. I think i'm up to 8 or 9 shoots now so i think they went over very well.

After learning a great lighting set up by andrew ness, i used the bounce card "method" to shoot.

Full hair and makeup was done by myself,
as well as all the editing which was done in lightroom.

Head shots, i strongly believe, should LOOK like the person in real life. So most corrections (not that there were alot) were done with makeup and lighting then a few adjustments in contrast, color, etc done in light room.

I really enjoy doing head shots, something about the face strikes my fancy and i'm thinking i might explore this medium further..