Photographer: Fiona Quinn
Demi – white interior w/daylight fill
 

Shirley Yu for Ximon Lee lookbook

Shirley Yu was born in 1994 in Beijing. Based in NYC, she is a digital photographer shooting fashion and portraiture. She has a lighthearted, modernist approach to her work, and her aesthetic is between minimalism and maximalism, utilizing aspects of both. In every photo, she likes to use color theory to evoke feelings, and experiments with different lines/shapes.

She is a junior at Rutgers University with a major in Information Technology and minor in Computer Science. She is also the photo director of Rutgers’ Trim Magazine.
Images shot with the Euro, white interior.

Photographer: Fiona Quinn
Images taken with a Mola Setti, white interior.

“My name is Linus Pettersson and I am a 27 year old photographer and retoucher based out of Stockholm, Sweden.

My interest in photography goes way back, but it’s during the last few years that it has become professional and even more rewarding than when it was simply a hobby.

I started my photographic journey with concert and nightlife/event photography. Mostly in the Rock scene, But also movie premieres and galas, the red carpet stuff, in Stockholm. Around this time I also began to shoot some promotional pictures for a couple of bands and all of a sudden I realised: I need to be able to control the light! I started to play around with those and experiment with lighting, and man that was fun! I started doing more and more portraits, and loved to try out different kinds of lighting setups. I also made some DIY-reflectors and such to get different results with the limited gear I had.

My interest for Makeup and beauty photography quickly grew and i was constantly searching for new sources of inspiration. This is when i found out about Mola Softlights and the Mola Light Blog.

I searched for info about the Mola Softlights everywhere, even with google images for inspiration. The pictures that photographers had taken with the different Molas were stunning to say the least and i thought to myself: I need a Mola!
One day when I was browsing the Buy/sell section of a Swedish photography site I was surprised to see that there were a photographer in my city that sold a Mola Setti with a speed ring for Elinchrom. I called him up directly and met with him the day after.

The first thing that struck me was the build quality! And the way it sculpts the light that comes out of it has something a little extra compared to any modifiers I have tried in the past. Its hard to put a finger on it. Must be magic! Here’s a couple of shots I’ve taken with the Mola Setti, white interior, with both the PAD and OPAL installed on an Elinchrom style 600rx.

The Mola Setti has become my go-to-modifier when it comes to beauty/makeup photography, it is so versatile. I would recommend it to anyone!”

Shot with the MOLA Demi – white interior
From M2 Women magazine New Zealand
Photographer: Fiona Quinn

Fashion and beauty photographer Kris Fulk used a MOLA Demi white to shoot these portraits for a personal project.

Born in Laguna, Philippines, Kris Fulk is a fashion photographer based in North Carolina. She immigrated to New York City when she was only 10 years old. In the fall of 2001, Kris was accepted into the fashion design program of the prestigious Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. Witnessing the fall of the Twin Towers during September 11, however, precipitated her enlistment into the United States Navy. She served as an aviation electrician’s mate, working on F/A 18s for four years until her honorable discharge at the age of 23. Since then she has graduated magna cum laude from St. Mary’s College of Southern Maryland with a Studio Art/ Art History degree focused on photography and illustration, and pursues her love for fashion and art through her camera.

Photography & Fashion Fiona Quinn @ Debut Management
Makeup Amber Caroll using MAC
Hair Sara Allsop @ Dharma using Wella
Models Izzy @ 62 models & Natasha @ N Model Management
Retouching Monica Chamorro

Check out this great article on Emily Soto’s blog from Creative Live’s Modern Women’s Portraiture course in Las Vegas.

The new Rayo reflector and Fionna Quinn:
»I wanted this beauty shoot to have a darker but dramatic feeling and I wanted a direct contrasty, quite hard light source. The shadows would deep and crisp and there would be little spill onto the background.«

Fionna has added a diffused layer to the front of reflector to slightly soften the overall look without distorting the true effect of the reflector. The Rayo was designed not to use our standard diffusion material as it would compromise the directional quality we were after. Using different fabrics as well as the slightest amount of diffusion can make the light just right. Sometimes the slightest amount of the right material will be all it needs. We have found these products by Lee to be very useful.

Here is a nice departure by Fiona Quinn. Spring…which has eluded us for the last several months. Shot in studio with the Setti – white interior, with and without the diffuser to vary the contrast, brightness and directionality.