Beautiful Miranda...

Miranda is by far my favorite person to photograph. She says she "turns on the majic" in front of the camera and I couldn't agree with her more. This specific group of photos was done for a school assignment designed specifically for me! My professor took all the info he knows about me and my photography and made up a theme for me. "Pin-up's in Nature" is what he came up with. I'm a very "outdoorsy" person, meaning I love to go on hike's, camp, and simply just sit outside any chance I can get. I also have this obsession with pin-up/vintage style photography. So this is what I came up with...

 Model: Miranda Schaeffer
Hair & Make-up: Miranda (She rocks!)
((make-up inspiration comes from photographer Nick Knight))
Outfit: came directly from the thrift store!


Sincerely,
julie.

blonde girl in undershirt - egon schiele

Inspiration for this photo shoot came from a painting by Egon Schiele titled 'blonde girl in undershirt.' His work is very simple but so elegant at the same time. During this photo shoot I just tried to keep the mood very gentle and simple. I never like to make things very complicated anyways, but I wanted the pictures to have an elegant feel as well.

American Beauty

Ever since I started taking pictures I've wanted to try a vintage pin up style photo-shoot. When I met Miranda I knew she would be a perfect model for this. So I gathered my ideas and inspirations and put everything I had into this photo-shoot. While working on the post processing I knew I wanted the pictures to resemble the old pin-up paintings from the 1950's. I could not have been more happy and proud of my end result.

Hair: Larissa Farris
Make-up: Miranda Schaeffer
Model: Miranda Schaeffer
Stylist: Julie Bowen

Beauty Photography

Every semester the photography department at UCO features images from the past semester's student projects on the walls of the Mass Communication building. So I thought it would be appropriate to share a few images from the series I had framed on the wall.

The image above made it on the wall this year. This series was created from my "beauty photography" assignment in Fashion Photography class a couple semesters ago. Beauty photography mainly focuses on the details and beauty of the face and/or make-up and hair. The above image is definitely my favorite from the series.

This was also my first time to meet my model, Miranda Schaeffer, and photograph her. Since then she has modeled for me several times and became a great friend. She is absolutely beautiful and has this thing about her that my camera just loves! Not to mention, she is a make-up artist and does her own for all the shoots. 

I was trying something new with the light fabric being draped over her and loved how it turned out! It gives the picture a nice texture. I used my Nikon D90 paired with a 50mm 1.8 lens. The lighting setup consisted of one ring light directly in front of her and a small amount of natural window lighting to one side as a fill light.

Instagram photo from behind the scenes