Fashion Shoots: Planning, Behind the Scenes and Hair Flips

Jessica Kobeissi describes how she plans a photoshoot from start to finish, using the organisational app Milanote, which sponsors the video, to gather ideas and arrange the shoot. The seven-minute talk concerns her preparation process, from initial concept through to the day itself, rather than camera settings or lighting.

Karl Taylor breaks down a shot of model Sophie amid flying red and blue paint, frozen by fast flash duration. Triple speedlight banks fire through scrims either side, a boomed beauty dish lights the upper body, gridded heads edge the face and vertical strip boxes soften the body.

Joanna Kustra's ninety-minute masterclass follows a six-location fashion editorial at a monastery in southern Spain. She explains how an editorial needs dynamic flow unlike commercial work, shares hair and freckled-makeup mood boards, balances strobe with changing sun, shoots on a 50mm, and manages crew and model in intense heat.