It’s been super cold outside lately so that means lots of indoor studio portraits!  These are some recent photos of Ivan, who wanted some simple shots for his portfolio.

Wooo great news! Pixelette is now offering makeup application for senior portraits! The talented Lindze Merritt has offered her services to give our seniors the complete photo experience.

Keep your eyes peeled for the updated website (coming soon!) which will give you all the info on makeup options and prices. I will, of course, make an updated post to let everyone know when that is ready to go. You will have the option of natural, glamorous and creative/couture makeup looks. Since everyone is different, we recommend an in studio consultation to discuss your perfect look.

In the meantime, check out some examples of makeup looks you could get, as modeled by the lovely Sam.

Here’s an example of a simple makeup look:

Basic makeup look: before and after

Glamourous Look

Creative Couture Look

It was a rainy day at the Pixelette studio, but Amber and I were ready to rock anyways! I managed to acquire a nice furniture piece from a friend for this shoot, and it turned out great. I have been working on collecting interesting furniture pieces for use in the studio and am finally getting the collection going. After all, I have an entire back room of the studio that is unfinished (for now). It’s supposed to be a makeup room eventually, but for now… it will stash all my cool new furniture!
Back on track, Amber’s photos turned out awesome. She had some sassy outfits and obviously knows how to work the poses. I tried a couple of different lighting setups for the occasion. As usual, we were going for the fashion feel and I think we got it!

A super long time ago I did a personal project where I tried to re create Pulp Romance scenes from old comics. It was a lot of fun, but as I was still sort of new to photography back then, I am tempted to try this series again and totally nail it the second time around. But we did get a couple of interesting shots from the shoot and here are a couple of them:

The following photo was a composite of two photos. I took the legs and couple on the couch separately and put them together later. While messing around with the edit, I got this old skool effect mostly on accident. I decided to keep it because it reminded me of an old timey movie which I think is pretty cool!

This photo was actually an outtake, but I kinda like it!

This photo was also a composite. The image of the couple in the sunglasses was taken separately and put in to look kind of like a reflection. I then comic-ized it a bit more in the second edit.

Krista was so much fun! I love it when I get to work with someone that is totally up for all my crazy ideas. She totally worked it. We went to Stone Mountain Park which is huuuuuuge! That place has tons of potential photo spots. I was a little overwhelmed by the possibilities, but we picked a couple and went with it. I did a mix of natural light and flash to get some different moods and effects. Even though the shoot was on Friday, I have only had a chance to edit a few, and here they are!

Pixelette has joined the crazy world of facebook. Come by and be our friend!
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and just so this post has a little more substance, here’s a sneak peek at a super fun fashion photo shoot I did featuring the clothes of designer Vanessa Vinci. I’ll be posting the rest of these soon.

Just for the fun of it, I decided to make a silly little video on my last photoshoot. It was taken with the worst camera phone ever, so we definitely won’t be winning any awards for cinematography, but it was a lot of fun regardless. I especially love how Emma finds it difficult to keep a straight face with a video camera on her.

Has anyone noticed the poor quality of videos uploaded to you tube? I think I’ll try Vimeo for my next vid.