richhinton

I have been wanting to do a gold themed beauty shoot now for well over 6 months.   I bought the gold liquid makeup, diamontes and organza material off ebay ages ago and had just been waiting for the right model to do the shoot with.

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the idea of a gold beauty shoot to Rebecca Fisher and she jumped at the chance.  I knew that she would be perfect for the shoot as she’s got a really beautiful face with striking features and killer cheek bones.   She’s also very confident with doing her own makeup and did a good job of applying the very awkward self adhesive diamontes.

The setup for the shots was quite simple, two bare flashes at 1/16th power behind and to either side of Rebecca, to create a lovely rim light and help to give a three dimensional look to her face.  The main fill light was provided by a small softbox with 1/8th power flash, camera right, in front and above Rebecca, with a silver reflector held under her face to provide fill under her chin.

It’s a pretty typical beauty setup but does produce great results.

For the second shot, we added the gold two tone organza material and used almost the same lighting setup, except removed the back left bare flash and the reflector fill.   Two completely different shots with the same makeup and only minor tweaks to the lighting setup.