Hollylodz Ikon

Inspired by the work of distinguished Polish photographer Zofia Nasierowska, this model adds high key lighting, diffuse shadows, and dreamy soft focus to portrait photos. It has a tendency toward 1960s/1970s hair and makeup, and for the subjects to be looking off-camera. It likes black-and-white, selective color (red lips especially), or lifted black colour tones.

I'm grateful to BelieveDiffusion and Zovya for their character models that I used to produce the demo images for this model.

A note on the model name. Lodz is a city in Poland; the Polish pronunciation of the city's name is close to "woodge" in English, like adding the first part of the word "wood" to the second part of the word "fridge". The city is home to the legendary Lodz Film School, which has led to the city being nicknamed "Hollylodz".