
Taryn, an Ottawa professional makeup artist, was an absolute pleasure to work with yesterday. With her new website about to go live, a few headshot and portrait photographs of this stunning beauty were in order.

Working in a house that has floor to ceiling glass windows can prove to be daunting as you can see in the test shot photo. Not only do you have to deal with the multitude of reflections coming at you from all angles, you need to balance the exterior ambient light with the interior lighting. Another thing to watch…

I’ve noticed lately, especially with some of the new younger crop of emerging photographers, a trend to apply a heavy-handed use of skin retouching techniques. I’m sure we’ve all seen examples where the subjects face looks like plastic and too smooth to be real. The problem as I see it is that the retoucher is applying…