How To Take Photos For Makeup Artist With Canon T6

QC Makeup Academy graduate, Kerry Sleeman, is an experienced photographer and makeup artist. This week, Kerry gives us her advice on how to take photos that will accentuate your makeup techniques and fit perfectly into your portfolio! See more of her work here!

Part of being a makeup artist is also nigh showcasing your piece of work to potential clients. A great style to start to showcase your work is to build up a cute portfolio of images to display on a Website, Facebook or any type of advertizing.

Being a photographer, I took the opportunity to take professional person images of work that I had completed to build my portfolio in my early on makeup career, and I still have images of my work to regularly update my portfolio when trends change or I exercise create work. Non everyone has a professional photographic camera or studio prepare, but please do not allow this terminate yous from taking beautiful images!

How do a accept a good epitome y'all might enquire to start building your portfolio? Here are some simple tips to get yous started.

Nigh Important: Model's Styling

For photography, it'south always best to utilise a Loftier Definition Makeup with no SPF to avoid flashback and to give a flawless look in images. It'south good to powder as well to give a lovely matte stop and avoid any shine. I always avert shimmer highlighter on the cheek bones. In photographs, highlighter tin make the field of study await sweaty or greasy. A light, rather than shimmer, highlighter is always good.

Avoid frosted lipstick for photography – over again it creates a shimmery highlight on the lips! I e'er stick with satin or matte lipstick looks for portfolio building. Employ matte eye shadows to define the pucker and outer corners or outer V. This creates depth in the eye area and create a gorgeous satin chapeau to define the colour. Utilise a nice set of natural lashes to heighten the eyes! I dearest Ardell Whispies for Boudoir. Finally, have the hair styled nicely to complement the makeup awarding.

Lighting

Don't use flash where possible! Natural light is always best for Makeup Photography (unless yous're a Dazzler Photographer that knows the ins and outs of lighting set ups!). Find a lovely bright window, which may have sheer curtains to soften the calorie-free. Sit or stand the subject well-nigh a meter away with the light against their confront to highlight their features and color of the makeup. If information technology seems too bright or washing out the colour, move the model further away from the light.

If you accept a darker room or are doing shoots more regularly, wait for a continuous light soft box or light that does non give off a yellow glow. EBay has some good, affordable options which calorie-free the confront well for photography. Here's an example to give you the idea.

If you want to get rid of dark circles under your model'south eye due to harsh lighting or shadows, invest in a pocket-sized reflector. Hold this under the model'south chin around the chest expanse (out of camera view) – this will take the dark circles away! Use either a white or silverish reflector to raise your images so that they are not then flat-looking, like this ane.

Model Pose

Posing a model is important for skillful looking makeup photos. Make sure the model is level with your camera, and don't take an image pointing the camera upwardly to the model. This is not flattering at all – it will make her neck look bad and expose those double chins!

Sit the model on a stool at your level, turn the body slightly to the side a niggling, ask the model to turn her chin around to her shoulder (don't bear on the chin on the shoulder, only plow over the shoulder). Ask the model to push button her chin out towards you and and then tilt downwards merely a little. This elongates the cervix, hides double chins, makes the eye drop exposing more than of the moving eyelid and lashes (making them popular). Just remember: chin out and down. Easy!

I always take a set of photos, especially if it'due south for a client's wedding trial and add it to their file. Take an epitome of the model with an open up centre looking at you, looking down (don't close fully equally this scrunches the moving lid) and looking out towards the low-cal, equally if they are looking at something exterior. This ready tin can exist created into a collage for the customer's portfolio sheet, for your social media or advertising.
Examples of types of makeup posing

Camera

You don't need a professional photographic camera! But if you lot accept one, bully! Yous can use an iPhone if you really want to – images from iPhones are great quality these days. Play with your settings, check the ISO is on 100 if you lot are in full bright light or change the ISO to 400+ if the room is darker. If your new to photography, set up your camera to automatic focus, and then focus on the eyes and click away! There is nothing worse than blurry eyes, so make certain they are sharp!

I hope this helps yous with getting started with taking images of your makeup for your portfolio!