Beauty

Today I am going to touch on beauty photography a bit. There are many, many types of photography...beauty, glamour, pin up, avant garde, traditional...and the list goes on. Beauty photography will focus on the face putting emphasis on makeup / hair etc. You want to showcase your subject using great light. Light is the key in beauty photography.  Here is the set up I used with my Canon 60D and 50mm 1.4 lens. ISO 200 / Shutter speed 150 / Fstop 6.3. As you can see, super easy basic set up.

There is a huge difference between regular snapshots, basic head shots and beauty. Head shots are usually very plain putting emphasis on the natural beauty of the subject where as snapshots capture someone in the moment not planned or posed.
No worries if you do not have off camera lighting...you can make your own and it works just as great as the pro sets. You can find a lot of DIY lighting here www.diyphotography.net along with a ton of other great DIY projects for your home studio!

If you would like to come learn more from me in studio you can either join my upcoming Glamour workshop on March 30th or contact me for private lessons.

For more information please contact me at
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or 513.535.6951