Me, Tai Collins, Cyrina Yarbough and Candice Marpel got it in about 4hrs ago at my home studio! We held a fashion shoot showing off some of Collins’ designer clothing we did two looks. Since I had the time I visioned a creative beauty shoot (that may just very well be plain ole beauty). I went a little out of character… boring gray background, 48″ octa (which i NEVER use in such a small confined space a B800 to cover fill lighting and background lighting. I even cranked out the good ole ABR-800 for fill and softness when needed. Trust me people, I never work this confined. I’ll have a lighting article at www.studiolighting.net soon. Just getting it off my chest here first.

I lit it with my: Britek HS-2000, Alien Bee B800, (sometimes) ABR800.

Here’s a shot of Cyrina. Great pallet to start with. But the star of the shoot was the new hotshot makeup artist Candice Marpel. (Not that the clothing and hair were not spot on.) I saw something great in the new (self taught) MUA… OUTSTANDING FUNDAMENTALS! Her blending was nothing short of spectacular. The confidence and speed actually “threw me for a loop” because I am used to waiting for makeup work in 1hr increments. Having the makeup done in 5 minute increments was shockingly welcome!

When I work out of the Bat Cave as I like to call it, lighting gets to bounce all over and almost any light has a major influence on the overall image shadows. You must be careful as heck not to forget this. In delicate situations like this one must remember to feather the lights away from the background and to give the lighting some direction as your doing your work.

Transformations, don’t you just love em!!!

She calls herself cocaine??

This is actually more of an introduction… so without further or do… introducing CYRINA YARBOUGH!

Stylish Beauty

A Closeup

My favorite part of this is seeing her transform into Halle Berry from Baps as soon as she started Rocking that wig that was styled by Monica Johnson about a month ago!!!! Yes Monica, WE GOT IT IN!!!

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