It’s been a quiet start to the new year, but I have this feeling that’s about to change!
I had a fun session with my young friend Abbie last weekend, she brought a cute mermaid tail with her. I really like this one of her looking bored.
While I take photographs, we always end up chatting. This time the conversation turned to Toddler’s and Tiara’s, you know the show with really young kids all dressed up and wearing lots of makeup, doing pageants. Abbie told me about this new photography technique I had never heard of, it’s called Glitz. I did a search and have to say those girls end up looking like avatars from a video game to me. Anyways, I went back to the session I did for Abbie for her dance costumes to find one of her with some makeup on and gave it a try.
Here’s my first attempt – it was a miss.
The before picture.
After:
Now my second attempt came out a little better.
Before:
After:
She kind of looks plastic-y and fake, right?
Success!!
Of course it’s a total fail in terms of her mascara – they must draw on those perfect long black lines around the eyes.
So here’s what I learned – the photograph that worked best was lit with studio lights instead of natural lights. Both eyes are evenly lit and so is her body and face. The first photograph she was being lit from above with window light and her arms and shoulders are darker than her face.
Thanks for the idea to try Abbie!!
~ Judie
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