beauty and fashion

Pixiq Expert

6 months ago

How to Use Multiple Lights for Dramatic Portraits

The Profoto beauty dish is one of my favorite light shaping tools. I have used it many times as my main light for years but today I want to show how to use the beauty dish as a fill light. The two images shown are both created using the beauty [...]

Matthew Jordan Smith

Pixiq Expert

7 months ago

Antelope Canyon

A road trip can do wonders for refreshing your mind but a photo road trip can do wonders for refreshing your creative spirit. I just returned from a road trip to Lake Powell, Antelope Canyon and Sedona. For years I [...]

Matthew Jordan Smith

Pixiq Expert

8 months ago

Today on Set

Today we are shooting a beauty assignment with a great models. Here is one of the behind the scenes images from today's shoot. Our models is new but very attractive and very talented. When I'm working on assignments like this I usually work [...]

Joe Farace

9 months ago

Runway Photography

Leggy supermodels may be attractive, but they are also fast and like a wedding shooter capturing a bride’s walk down the aisle with her father, you only get one chance. You’re also working under tricky lighting conditions and more often than not, [...]

Matthew Jordan Smith

Pixiq Expert

1 year ago

Umbrella vs Beauty Dish

Yesterday I shot a beauty assignment with one of my favorite models. I often use a profoto beauty dish for beauty assignments like this, but yesterday I decided to use a white umbrella with my profoto strobes instead. The reason for switching from [...]

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