Psykit Photography

Find your Make Up Style

// May 9th, 2010 // Model, Photography, Portraits

This was an impromptu shoot invited by Billy to shoot his cousin’s make up model. In fact, the photos will be used by his cousin Grace for her make up “exam”. We are given a limited time to shoot her model given the fact that there are other students queuing up to shoot them as well. We got like 15 mins and no time to prepare at all.

The studio has a motorized backdrop and I chose the white background out of the other blue and black. 2 strobes with softbox with no trigger/receiver. We brought ours and set that up quickly. A few test shots lead us to guesstimate the power required to on both strobes. We set one strobe on camera left pointing 2 o’clock with 1/8 power and the other strobe at camera right pointing 11 o’clock at 1/6 power. Both is around eye level. Due to the power of the strobe, unlike speedlights we can set our settings with a lowest ISO of 100, shutter speed at sync speed and aperture around f/10 – f/11. I wanted the aperture to be around f/8 but that will be too bright as the right strobe’s lowest power is 1/6 (not a branded strobe). So, there you go, all shots are done in less than 20 mins and off we head back.

Kristy is Grace’s model in white gown. While Wan Wei is in blue and Elsa is wearing the purple gown.

Note: The clip behind Elsa is to fit her into the purple gown.