picture perfect

My first post of 2018!!! Heeeeelllooooooooo New Year.. New Post.. New Readers to my blog..! I hope everyone had a fabulous New Year!!

So my first post is going to be about how I take my pictures, what I use to take my pictures and what lighting! I get asked this sooo much so why not make a little post!

I usually use my iPhone 7 for all my photos with flash, I never ever use the front camera and flash, even for selfies! I always use the back camera and flash!
However Jake did buy me a camera for Christmas so now some of my most recent photos are used with my new fab camera! Which is the Cannon EOS M3, and omg I love it!! Im going to use this to start my youtube channel!!

As for lighting, I most of the time use my ring light which I will link below, I take all my makeup pictures with my ring light and then some of my outfit pictures with the ring light too! Now I've changed up the backgrounds bit for my outfit posts I don't tend to use the ring light as much! However I am just about to invest in a soft box! These are alot cheaper than ringlights and give off near enough the same effect as the light is so white!!
Ring Light

Filtering and editing.. My favourite part!! I always use the same filter on all my pictures on instagram!! Here is what I do!

So I select my filter, which is always Aden!!! I don't know why I just love this filter so much! It always gives you a nice tan aswell!

Then I up the contrast a little bit to give more definition to the photo, especially for makeup pictures!!

       Then I turn the brightness down just slightly, this defines the highlight in the picture!!! 

Last of all I then go onto the colour edit and choose the pink colour, I literally only do this to add a tint of colour as this brings out your makeup and the colours in the makeup so much more! It really emphasises the colours!! 

Tadaaaaaa! Then I have my picture ready to post for the gram!!! I only do this on my personal account, I don't use any edit or filters for my makeup account!!!


I hope you enjoyed this post!!! Lots of love Lacey!!! xx