Andriy Zolotoiy Photography Blog

Here are few shots from World Show by Orange Tree Beauty Salon. Body painting by Natasha Kudashkina.

This editorial was shot very recently, we barely made it for Valentine’s issue of VEUX magazine. The studio was pretty much empty so we improvised a bit to create different environments for story moods. First spread was shot with umbrella key light, and the rest with just 8.5” reflectors and grids. I also employed here colour gels; they are life savers when interior decoration is lacking character.

Model: Ada Adams
MUA: Linda Radan

Just gotten my hands to edit few photos from Orange Tree Beauty Show back in April. Decided to give these little retro look. This particular series were challenging due to white on white scenario, showing details is important while not blowing out whole thing.

Very old photo here. I remember hair styling took over 3 hours here and still wasn’t finished. At the end I had about 15 minutes to shoot.

It’s been a long time since shot something like this. The secret ingredients here are lotsa makeup powder, some semi-liquid stuff, macro lens and hard colored light. I normally just use regular reflectors with grids and colour gels. See more on flickr.

Photos are from few months back appeared in June issue of Canadian Hairdresser.

One of my photos has gotten to a cover of Toronto Russian Guide.

Hair, makeup, nails – Orange Tree Beauty Centre
Body art – Natasha Kudashkina
Model – Nikol Ginga

Anastasia Shvets is Miss Swimwear Toronto 2010

When I’m doing creatives I always like to experiment with different lighting setups to see the effect I can achieve with particular combo. Recently I did two photoshoots with hair stylists from Dat Salon and make-up artist Delia Lupan.

For the first shoot we also invited young stylist Jennifer Keen to accessorize our models. I wanted to combine standard portrait technique and my own style to create edgy but classic looks. I used 2 Alien Bees AB800 strobes, one with 22” white beauty dish and sock as key, another with 24” shoot-through umbrella for fill. Dish is placed on a boom and positioned above model’s face while fill was on either side of the camera depending on the angle we chose to work with.

Our model Lexy worked some classic portrait poses that matched the mood I wanted to create.

Jen gave us combination of edgier look and personality, all working very well together.

For our second shoot we focused on some cool extra large eyelashes. I used large softbox angled at 45 degrees down as a key, shoot-through umbrella on the back for kicker light and silver reflector under model’s face.

Dalia brought some Twiggy-like looks to the table. Catchlights in the eyes show you light sources shapes and positions.

Cait with her stunning bone structure gave us amazing beauty shots borderlining with grotesque imagery.

Red haired Kirsten brought out her sexy signature looks to round up our photoshoot.

This was shot back in January. Rediscovered and edited today when going through Lightroom 3 conversion process.