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Photographer Shoots Beauty Editorial On Her Rooftop

May 27, 2020

By Jacqueline Tobin

© Alejandra Loaiza

At a time now, when photographers have to come up with creative ways to make shoots work from home, it seems timely to spotlight this beauty shoot, created on the photographer Alejandra Loaiza‘s rooftop in Barcelona in order to feature the amazing sunset light. You can, after all, shoot luxury beauty shoots anywhere and on a budget.

Despite sounding DIY, this was official client work: Loaiza collaborated with makeup artist Patricia Sánchez and model Dana Breeman, represented by FIFTH Models, to pull together the editorial shoot for Yoko, an independent biannual fashion and art magazine (check out the full feature here).

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Loaiza says she and Sànchez “developed the concept together, and she always wanted to work with flowers, so we figured it was the best idea since spring was actually coming soon.”

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Hanging up a cotton sheet as a backdrop, Loaiza explains, “I wanted to give it a nice contrast with the typical textures and style of the rooftops in Barcelona.”

model posing with flowers springtime beauty editorial shoot on rooftop for yoko magazine by alejandra loaiza
Shot with a Nikon D750 and a 35mm 1.4 Sigma Art Lens. The exposure settings are:  ISO100   F5.0  1/500

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