Shoot­ing beauty and macro is one of my pas­sions. The amount of cre­ativ­ity that goes into each shoot from every­one in the team makes me happy in my pants, oh yeah. So I got with makeup artist Tammy Mead and model Angela Lum through some ideas in the air and every­one caught them with ease.

This first look I wanted was a very clean and sur­real view. Look closely… aaaaaaa. The light­ing was very clean as you can see with one mono-light with the umbrella 6.5 feet in the air to cre­ate soft shad­ow­ing around the model and the back­ground. Magic was used to keep her hair up in the air like that. Yes, Hog­warts is real, don’t hate.

Now these below were used with the same setup but the dif­fer­ence is I threw in the Excalibur3200 with a snoot to get a blast of light very close to the sub­ject to get a glare or high­light. On top of that very min­i­mum post pro­cess­ing was used, hence veins in the eyes and other nat­ural objects that are nor­mally removed.

These last two were cre­ated with only the snoot in the same loca­tion for very deep shad­ows to ensure a very deep and moody appearance.

Macro is fun! Great job Tammy and Angies!

So there ya go, that is a lit­tle hows that with macro and beauty using cre­ativ­ity and mono-lights.