How Make-Up Tips Can Help You With Portrait Photography – No Make-Up Needed!

How Make-Up Tips Can Help You With Portrait Photography - No Make-Up Needed!

Dani Diamond, a fashion and commercial photographer from NYC, explains how make-up tutorials helped him with his photography.

And no – he didn’t have to actually start putting make-up on his clients’ faces… But the tutorials gave him a lot of information on how to retouch portraits in a way that brings out the clients’ best features. Check out the before and after pictures yourself to see the difference!

During my short experience as a retoucher, I had a lot of questions. Primarily, I always wondered where it was necessary to dodge and burn. I knew that there had to be some sort of guideline to follow. This question led to a lot of googling, culminating to the rabbit hole of makeup tutorials on Youtube. The most important thing I learned was the concept of contouring. Out simply, contouring is the art of expertly highlighting and shadowing the correct spots on the face in order to accentuate and bring out the subjects best look.

Read the full article and see before&after pictures over at Fstoppers.

Source: Fstoppers

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