I went to Hawaii last month to celebrate the fact that I now work entirely remotely. I went to visit my best friend Ashley who is Hawaiian, and my dear friend Loretta came for a weekend to join us.
Fall Self Portraits
Little life update for you all….
I officially am a full time retoucher for other photographers. This has been very exciting because I now work fully remotely. I’ve been so busy in the transition that I haven’t been able to keep up with blogging or taking shooting as much as I would like to.
However, I decided that I need to finally update all of this good stuff so that I can start 2019 out fresh. Here we go!
Well, that’s what happens when I don’t post for four months. We get a lot of selfies. Hope you enjoyed.
Summer Self Portraits
I've recently been commissioned to do a set of self portrait photographs wearing makeup from Just For Redheads. Now, I am not a redhead. I have had red dyed hair before, but it's quite a hassle to keep up. My solution - retouch it red.
I've decided that for the time being I will be always making my hair red in post to keep things cohesive on my social media and to see how long I can get away with this lil lie.
I've made a choice to set this crop ratio for this set to be 16:9. This is cool and all, but I'm still figuring out how to display it on my website.
I have so many more images to share. I realized that I wasn't going to share until they're all done and edited and thats NEVER going to happen. So, I'm postin what I got.
Self Portraits
I am so happy with these.
I've been playing with the afternoon light that floods into my "studio". What an exciting change this has been. I work in a relatively small room, and to find any sort of new variation from my normal posing/lighting habits is the name of the game.
ALSO! I've been training for a race later this month in France. I think the creativity flows more freely when I'm all hopped up on post workout endorphins.
Method:
The other new things I did during this shoot were:
- play Rap (very atypical for me)
- straighten the upper half of my hair with particular emphasis on the face framing layers.
- shooting during time traditionally reserved for naps (2 - 4 pm)
Below is a separate, more dramatic, attempt at mastering this same intense light.
This is the only light I want to explore.