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Fashion Photography Tips From Pros

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Amanda B
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Having beautiful models, designer clothes, the perfect lighting, and retouching techniques aren’t the only things you need when photographing fashion photography. To get the ideal images, you have to start with a concept, build a team, experiment, and pay attention to details. Here are five tips for better fashion photography shoots.

Create a Concept and Mood Board

Like any shoot, when photographing fashion shoots you can’t just show up and hope everything will work out. You have to put in the time and effort to develop a concept for the shoot. Ask yourself what story you’re trying to tell, how you want the reader to feel, and what’s the purpose of the shoot. These questions will help you figure out the lighting, wardrobe, posing, and hair and makeup. After you figure out the concept, go ahead and make a mood board with a collection of images to ignite your creativity.

Make a Creative Team

Your creative team will consist of the artists that you’re collaborating with for your project, which will include hairstylists, makeup artists, wardrobe stylists, set designers, etc.

Choose Lighting That Tells a Story

The best lighting doesn’t exist, as the lighting, you work with should enhance the mood and purpose of the photographs. The lighting you choose will tell different stories and moods for the same images.

Try In-Camera Effects

You don’t need Photoshop to get cinematic and creative effects. You can hold prisms, pieces of glass, and other tools in front of your lens to add new dimensions. Many companies even offer filters and tools to help spark your creativity.

Meet the Winners of the 2023 Etsy Design Awards

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Mark O
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Etsy is one of the internet’s hot spots for home décor inspiration, and they recently honored some of the most inspiring creators on this platform. The Etsy Design Awards winners were determined by a panel of experts, and we’re bringing you some of the most impressive recipients.

Grand Prize Award Winner – MARIGABY

Venezuelan designer Maria Gabriela Duque, the founder of the sustainable fashion brand MARIGABY, won Etsy’s main award this year with her cactus leather convertible bag, which can be worn in three different ways.

Winners’ Choice Award – MoziDozen

Taiwanese brand MoziDozen specializes in crafting some of the quirkiest lamps that you’ll ever come across. They offer lamps shaped like everything from mushrooms to sheep, but they ended up winning an Etsy award with their dandelion lamp, which you can turn on by blowing on the seeds.

Home Decor – Terroso Studios

Terroso Studios won big in the home décor category with their signature ceramic chain planter. It’s a huge success for this Canadian brand that’s been around since 2020, and their beloved chain planters now come in several different shapes and colors.

Furniture – ABT Modern

ABTModern, the brand behind mid-century modern furniture made in Central Florida, produced a lot of impressive chairs over the years, but none of them compares to this Etsy-winning rare glass lounge chair.

Margot Robbie’s “Barbie” Press Tour Was the Ultimate Blast From the Past

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Amanda B
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Barbie has been a timeless fashion icon for generations and Margot Robbie took a page from her book while promoting Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie. Many of her red carpet looks have been pulled from the archives of Barbie’s long past and paid homage to some of her most iconic looks.

The Original (1959)

One of Robbie’s early promo looks shows her rocking a custom black and white mini dress by Herve Leger, paying a clear homage to the very first Barbie that wore a swimsuit with a similar print.

Day to Night (1985)

Australian actress pulled all the stops while promoting Barbie in South Korea, and delivered not one, but two mind-blowing Versace looks in an attempt to recreate the 80s nostalgia of “Day to Night” Barbie.

Sparkling Pink (1964)

Robbie put a modern twist on Barbie’s “Sparkling Pink” look from the ’60s with this Moschino ensemble from 2015, which she paired with a matching headpiece and heart-shaped bag.

Solo in the Spotlight (1960)

Just when we throughout that Robbie’s South Korea press tour looks will be impossible to top, she proved us wrong at the film’s world premiere. She hit the red carpet in the dazzling Schiaparelli gown, long opera gloves, and Lorraine Schwartz diamond choker necklace.

Enchanted Evening (1960)

Some of Robbie’s very best promo tour looks were inspired by the Old Hollywood glamour of the ’60s, and that certainly happens to be the case with this corseted dress blush pink gown by Vivienne Westwood.

Rommy De Bommy’s Bags Blend Food and Fashion Into One

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Kate B
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Fashion and food don’t often mix together, but we’ve seen several brands find viral fame after managing to find the perfect fusion between the two. Rommy De Bommy is one of them, and their quirky bags are inspired by some of the most delicious comfort foods on the market.

This fashion brand was founded by Rommy Kuprus, a 29-year-old designer based in the Netherlands. She shortly studied product design but didn’t feel like she belonged there because she always marched to the beat of her own drum and eventually decided to start her own brand.

Rommy De Bommy became a true sensation thanks to its food-inspired designs. Kuprus always enjoyed creating things that seemed impossible, and the challenge of making food purses from patterned printing fabrics appealed to her because she’s a huge foodie.

“Food had always my biggest interest. I love the look of it. All those shapes, different colors, and textures. It’s incredible! Since I couldn’t find purses who look like real foods on the internet or in stores I started to create them by myself,” she explains on her official website.

Kuprus usually draws inspiration from the Instagram and Pinterest accounts of pastry chefs, and she uses different kinds of clay foams to bring her food-shaped bags to life.

3 Things You Should Always Do When Working on DIY Projects With Your Kids

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Elizabeth N
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Working on DIY projects is a great bonding activity you can do with your kids. This hobby can be fun for the whole family, allowing your kids to fully explore their creative potential, and these three tips will help you make DIY with kids fun for everyone.

Fun & Simple

Your kids will enjoy the DIY to the fullest if the project you choose is fun and interesting. It’s also a good idea to keep things simple, so you don’t end up doing all the work for them. If you’re struggling to make the right choice, ask your little ones for their input and opt for a project they like.

No Giving Up

Working on DIY projects can be tough, especially when things are not going according to plan, but that’s not the reason to call it a day. If your kids feel like giving up, be there to encourage them to keep going, helping them work on their determination and perseverance.

Team Work

DIY projects will also help your kids learn how to be team players and work alongside others, but they might need a push in the right direction. Each DIY project consists of several smaller tasks and you should guide your kids to work on ones that fit their skills and personal affinities.

Audrey Smit is Transforming Mundane Buildings Into Floral Miracles

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Mark O
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Audrey Smith enjoys seeing flowers everywhere around her, and she’ll help you see them too. The digital designer behind the viral project Paint the World is using the power of Photoshop to transform mundane buildings from all around the world into vibrant spectacles.

On the official website of her brand This Little Street, Smith describes it as a place of tree houses and big pink bathtubs and unicorns, where the flowers grow as big as trees, imagination, and happy thoughts are sprinkled in the air, and everyone gets to be a kid, no matter their age.

Smith’s work started gaining viral appeal after she kicked off a unique project called Paint the World. She used Photoshop to adorn buildings from all around the world with her intricate floral artwork and continued doing it because she found joy in showcasing the world’s beauty, while also sprinkling it with a little bit of floral magic.

The majority of Smith’s work is photoshopped, but her floral houses are slowly making it to the real world. She recently painted her very first real-life patterned house in France, and it took her over 100 hours of sketching and painting to transform this whimsical Normand house into one of her floral masterpieces.

Kiana Bonollo is Using Her Sewing Skills to Recreate Iconic Celebrity Outfits

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Elizabeth N
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It usually takes a whole team of people to make some of the best celebrity red carpet looks, but Kiana Bonollo is trying to recreate them all on her own. The talented fashion designer from North Carolina is using her sewing skills to put a budget-friendly twist on iconic luxury designer looks.

Bonollo is a 24-year-old content creator from Raleigh, North Carolina, who became quite a sensation on social media since she started sharing her skills with the world. She attracted over 1.5 million followers across several social media platforms, and her step-to-step sewing guides will inspire you to give this craft a chance.

Bonollo enjoys taking her followers behind the scenes and showing them what goes into making her original designs. Even though she enjoys coming up with her own dresses, she owes most of her audience to the viral videos that show her recreating popular celebrity looks.

We’ve seen her recreate dresses worn by the likes of Paris Hilton, Olivia Rodrigo, and Gigi Hadid, but her take on Dua Lipa’s recent Met Gala looks is her biggest hit. The original Chanel bridal gown hails from 1992, and Bonollo managed to make a $200 replica from the comfort of her home.

“I started researching it to see it on the original model and I kept falling more in love with it, the more angles I saw of it… I’m assuming it took them weeks or months to make, at least weeks, probably months. I know usually it’s a team of people working on big dresses like this,” she told Insider.

5 Ways to Incorporate Mermaidcore Into Your Home

By
Nikoleta P
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Mermaidcore is one of the leading home décor trends of 2023, and it will be going stronger than ever this summer. This trendy aesthetic is pretty easy to embrace, and this brief guide will help you will evoke a sense of underwater magic in your home.

Dreamy Colors

The shades of blue, green, teal, and aquamarine will help you give your home that mermaidcore feel. You can welcome them into your home through walls, furniture, and smaller décor pieces.

Beachy Furniture

If you want to go all in with this trend, consider buying furniture with a coastal or beachy vibe, from seashell-shaped armchairs and mirrors to driftwood coffee tables.

Seashells All the Way

Speaking of seashells, they’re one of the staples of this rising trend. The list of home décor pieces shaped like seashells or decorated with tiny shells and pearls is pretty much endless, and it includes vases, jars, frames, pillows, and everything in between.

Textile Choice

Textiles that evoke the sense of the ocean are also worth looking for. Try to find pillows, blankets, and rugs in ocean-inspired colors and patterns, from waves to mermaid tail designs.

Wall Art

Whenever you’re not sure how to embrace one of the emerging home décor trends, you can always turn to wall art that matches its vibe.

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