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Photography, Hair, and Make Up: Kayleigh Kay
Model: Makalah
For Shuba Magazine

Photography, Hair, and Make Up: Kayleigh Kay
Model: Makalah
For Shuba Magazine
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NIKON D850

settings

Aperture f/18 ISO 100 Shutter 1/125 Focal Length 1050/10

location

Chicago, Illinois, US

upload_date

Oct, 2019

Views

647

Likes

+37

Awards

Contest Finalist in Portrait Poetry Project

Contest Finalist in Social Exposure Photo Contest Vol 25

Contest Finalist in Studio Glamour Photo Contest

Peer Award

Genius

Absolute Masterpiece

All Star

Virtuoso

Top Choice

Top Ranks

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 30 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 10 rank

Top 20 rank

Top 10 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 20 rank week 1

Top 30 rank

Top 10 rank

Behind The Lens

Location

This photo was taken at my studio in Chicago.

Time

We took this photo in the late afternoon. My studio and has a wonderful natural light, so we used it for our advantage while doing hair and make up. However the photo itself was done with studio lighting.

Lighting

We wanted this image to be clean and sharp. We used a clam style lighting set up using a beauty dish above the model and a silver reflector parallel to the light just below the model’s chest. To ensure we did not have too many shadows we also used white foam core boards to the left and right of the model.

Equipment

To get this shot I used a Nikon D850 with a 105mm macro lens. For lighting we used an alien bee with beauty dish modifier, a medium silver reflector, and 2 foam core boards.

Inspiration

I have always been inspired by macro beauty photography and skincare ads. This specific look’s inspiration came from the color of the backdrop, we wanted to do something very neutral and clean to highlight the model’s porcelain skin tone and her freckles.

Editing

For the most part I like to get my images as close to perfect as I can in the camera when it comes to things like exposure and lighting. The post processing done on this photo was mostly cosmetic; I cleaned up skin imperfections, softened the skin, used dodging and burning to enhance highlights and shadows as well as add definition to certain areas of the face and eyes, I also cleaned up flyaway hair, enhanced the freckles to be more prominent, and sharpened the final image.

In my camera bag

My camera bag always has my favorite essentials: My Nikon D850, a 105mm 2.8, a 50mm 1.4, a 24-70mm 2.8, and a shoulder harness. Always bring extra memory cards, batteries and some business cards too (you never know when you might run into a potential client)!

Feedback

To achieve a similar photo to this, I highly recommend finding a subject that already has clear skin or as few of skin imperfections as possible as you are getting very up close and personal with their face. You also want to make sure that your make up artist is not using a lot of foundation on the model because that can lead to losing skin texture and it can become very cakey on camera which makes the post processing more difficult and time-consuming. It also helps when you have a subject who has interesting features and is able to provide good expressions to really help bring the image to life.

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Model: Makalah
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