Master Beauty Photography
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Beauty Photography & Retouching Simplified. Julia Kuzmenko McKim is a Los Angeles-based internationally published professional Beauty, Fashion & Portrait photographer, digital artist and retoucher.
Master Beauty Photography
2y ago
Hello everyone! I have been planning to start posting on my blog again for a while now, despite all of the projects my team and I are consumed with right now. Sure, didn’t plan for the first post to be like this, but, well, at least it helps me to start writing again! ? I ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
Before you glance over the pictures and read the entire blog post, I will note, that, ideally, most of these things are found in your makeup artist’s kit. This is not the typical stuff that a photographer would worry about, but I’ve learned that I am a better-safe-than-sorry kind of person, so I prefer to have it ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
In my first article on Macro Beauty I shared my gear, lenses and studio tools, and today I’d like to talk about the capture itself. I mentioned briefly in that article that I had attempted to shoot Macro Beauty before, but I’d never been satisfied with the results until a tipping point – one successful shoot ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
If you are looking for an amazing Makeup Artist who will be obsessing over capturing perfect makeup and skin in camera together with you, and leaving very little if anything at all for you to fix in post, know that it’s those MUAs who also shoot and retouch their work. They know very well that ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
By now everyone who is even slightly interested in or connected to the beauty industry has heard about the “CVS ban on retouching”. Only there is no ban, and this is not only good for the public, but very good for the health of the industry too. As a professional directly involved in the industry ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
2017 has been an amazing year and I was fortunate to meet and work with super talented people and wildly successful makeup and skincare brands. I had the honor to shoot and retouch multiple times for Urban Decay (L’Oreal), GlamGlow (Estée Lauder), Melt Cosmetics, Hourglass Cosmetics, Dose of Colors, Sunday Riley, Tatcha to name just a few ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
This is Part II of the Industry Insider: The Art of Flawless Skin article, you can find Part I: Photography here. Raw Conversion Like many other aspects in photography, a good foundation is the building block for a good picture. Considering how you’ll adjust your image in raw before you begin the more intensive work can ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
On the subject of beauty photography and retouching, one of the first aspects that comes to mind is flawless skin. The core of most beauty work is the art of conveying perfection. While few complexions are naturally perfect, it is an illusion that becomes important to create this fantasy for the viewer. This doesn’t mean every ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
It took me over a month to finally come to the boiling point to write this. I wanted to put it behind me and move on, but I keep getting new messages about what this individual is doing to my name and my professional reputation in this industry, so I choose not to protect hers ..read more
Master Beauty Photography
4y ago
Dear fellow photographers, It has come to my attention that some privately owned cosmetics companies are collecting images from their creators and asking to sign questionable papers that allow these companies to do anything they want with the intellectual property of the signees. Here’s an example of the language that a Company X is using ..read more