photography

Sometimes the press release graphics you get from your product companies aren’t quite what you’re looking for. I do a lot of little shots of products and things for my salon’s website and facebook, etc, and I thought I’d show you guys how to do it easily and cheaply if […]

How-To: Quick & Dirty Product Photography

31 Jan, 2013 in Best Of / Overdirected / Pretty Photos / Videos tagged photography / photos / youtube by Overdirected

Mega Sexy Redhead at ABA Edmonton Hair Show — I just got back from ABA in Edmonton – well actually, I just finished shooting Episode 1 of CrossCheck with Josh and Randy Taylor, and now I’m eating spaghetti with liberal amounts of both seasoning salt and parmesan cheese. The hair show was earlier. Today was one hell of an […]

ABA Hair Show in Edmonton – Tabatha Coffey, Jake Thompson

7 May, 2012 in Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged photography / photos by Overdirected

My salon did a photoshoot for fun last fall, and I can finally use the pictures from it. So check it out! It was done without a budget, we did the hair, a friend of the salon did the makeup, the clothes were supplied to a cool local shop. It […]

Fall Photoshoot

30 Apr, 2012 in Best Of / Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged photography / photos / salon by Overdirected

Cool Bumble & Bumble Hair Salon — I was goofing around with HDR photos in the salon – HDR photos are something I played with back when it was the in-thing to do, and haven’t done since. You take a few different photos of the same thing at different exposures, combine them, and get a hyper-realistic picture […]

HDR Photos of the Salon

4 Jan, 2012 in Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged photography / salon by Overdirected

My salon did a cool photoshoot this fall, here’s some behind the scenes pics I took with my phone! Me and another girl were in charge of one model, and 2 other girls looked after another model, and my boss looked after the male model.

Another Photoshoot

3 Dec, 2011 in Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged photography by Overdirected

Schwarzkopf Hairapalooza Edmonton 2011 — I’m a bit late posting these… But I took some pics at Hair-A-Palooza in Edmonton. My boss, and a girl I went to school with were competing. Here’s a whole ton of pics!

Hair-A-Palooza Competition (Schwarzkopf) in Edmonton

17 Jul, 2011 in Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged hair show / photography by Overdirected

Ok, maybe makeup madness would be a more accurate title. Some sort of madness. This is a super duper, mega-long post that details the entire process from start to finished pictures. Click to read the whole thing (with tons of behind the scenes pictures!)

Photoshoot MADNESS! – Super long post warning

13 Jul, 2011 in Best Of / Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged beauty industry / photography / up do by Overdirected

I did another photoshoot with a friend when she came down from the “big city” last weekend. I’m not happy with how the photos turned out – tell me what you think? I couldn’t cut her hair, only style it. If I could have cut her hair I would have […]

Moar Photoshooty Goodness

25 Apr, 2011 in Overdirected / Pretty Photos tagged cosmetology / photography / salon by Overdirected