Better portraits with a make-up artist
Friday 6 October 2023, 15:51 by Elja Trum | 2,317 views | 1 commentThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
A make-up artist (or Make-Up Artist, MUA) can add a great deal to your portrait photos. In this video, photographer Gavin Hoey gives you useful tips for working with a make-up artist.
I don't usually use a make-up artist myself, mainly because it takes so much time. In my experience, a make-up artist often needs about an hour. However, they can certainly add a lot, as you can see in this video.
A make-up artist often adds extra costs to the shoot too, although there are certainly many, especially beginner, make-up artists who are happy to work in exchange for photos. Don't forget to include the MUA in the model contract.
About the author
Elja Trum is the founder of Photofacts and online photography course website Photofacts Academy. He has been writing about photography since 2006. Elja is also the author of (Dutch) books on composition, black-and-white photography, flash photography and portrait photography.
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1 comment
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Donald Willemsen wrote on Tuesday 10 October 2023 at 10:13 | replyI’m more for au naturel. I find capturing a model’s character in a portrait more important than all that embellishment. That doesn’t necessarily make a model more beautiful. It’s more often used to hide something. Moreover, make-up is often subject to the whims of fashion and I often find that at odds with my view.
Translated from Dutch.
Moreover, ‘Better portraits with a make-up artist’ is complete nonsense! You only get better portraits if the photographer’s creativity, knowledge and skills are up to scratch and they have sufficient social skills to have good contact with the model m/f/x, which leads to good cooperation. You don’t need a pot of paint for that. A pot of paint alone doesn’t produce better portraits, no matter how good the make-up artist is.
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