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Overview
Born in Detroit, Michigan, on September 25, 1989, Jessica Kobeissi is an Arab American fashion photographer and YouTube personality. She was born to Lebanese immigrants and holds dual citizenship with the United States and Lebanon. Before becoming a photographer, Kobeissi was a graphic designer and holds a bachelor’s degree in this field. Jessica is a fashion and portrait photographer who runs workshops across the United States. She grew a following on her youtube channel that helps people better their photography and editing techniques. She is most known for her challenges in competing with other photographers in similar settings to display their images to compare the different styles in photography allowing the audience to decide who created the best set of images for the styled shoot, location and model. She has a strong social media following, her YouTube channel has over 1.6 million subscribers and her Instagram has over 506k followers. She has been a professional photographer since 2011 doing weddings, portraits and working with professional models.

Early Career
Jessica Kobeissi’s time as a graphic designer started at the young age of 12, when a friend introduced her to the online gaming site Neopets. Within the game, she created several pages to attract other users to her guild. She would go on to create her own website, offering design tutorials and free patterns. It was in creating patterns that sparked her love for fashion. She would use fashion magazines as a starting point for her work. ‘During her earlier years of online graphic designing she used a lot of fashion magazine editorial scans from Harpers, Vogue, Elle, Nylon, etc. so it was something she had always been exposed to. She also loves fashion and conveying attitude in her photos. She's been writing tutorials since she was 14 years old, so it just seemed natural for her to start a youtube channel. Before photography she was into graphic design and would be asked how she got a certain effect or how she designed something. She wrote a tutorial and people loved it, and ever since then she's just been used to creating them for people to learn.’   Kobeissi saw graphic design as a hobby until her high school art teacher encouraged her to pursue art school. There she began taking an interest in photography.

YouTube Videos:
Jessica Kobeissi’s videos vary from exotic location photo shoot tutorials to informal questionnaires in her home. Her easy going personality comes out in all her videos. The videos taken at photoshoots are more professional and may include camera and lighting tips or model directions. She enjoys joking with her audience and usually offers small anecdotes about her life. Video times range from a few minutes to half an hour.

Some examples of tutorials she has done in the past are for the applications done in adobe applications of lightroom and photoshop. She shows how she retouches her images using spot heal, while also sharing how she uses different techniques in the adjustment levels to of light and dark to fit her aesthetic.

Her most viewed video on youtube is “6 Creative Photography Tricks You NEED To Try” with over 10 million views, the second most viewed video is “Taking Pictures of Strangers” with over 5.3 million Views, and her third most watched is the collaboration 4 Photographers Shoot The Same Model - Episode 3” with over 5 million views. In collective Jessica has over 104,722,839 Views on all her videos. Her videos average around 76,000 views.

Jessica's Photo Editing Style (2020):
Using photoshop she uses different layers to retouch the skin for a seamless, softened, smoothed, airbrushed look to create doll-like natural complexion. In her tone adjustments, she uses the hues to give warmth to the images, she plays with the reds and oranges that make her images successful. She lightens the subject for it to stand out from the background really allowing the model to pull forward from the background. In most of her images she eseuntates the highlighted regions of the facial features like the bridge of the nose, cheek bones, eyebrows and a bit on the forehead and chin. She uses dark moody lighting to give images a sense of mystery and beauty. She is very experienced in photoshop enabling her to remove large objects that are distracting to the eye in the images as well as the most tedious strands of hairs that are present in front of the face. She also gives some light effects on the images that are artificial giving it a dream like appearance.

Jessica's Inspiration:
When she travels she becomes inspired, whenever she has time she will book a ticket and go on an adventure, she loves meeting new people.

Photographers that have influenced her work are Lina Tesch, who is one of her favorite photographers. She also loves the attitude and feeling in her photos. Another favorite of hers is Bonnie Hansen, she thinks her work is phenomenal.

Photography Gear:
Kobeissi uses a Canon 5D Mark IX camera with an accompanying 50mm f/1.2L Canon lense. She prefers this combination for fashion shoots.

(September 8, 2019) In her camera bag she has the 85mm 1.2 Canon Lense for large fields for the quality and boqa. The 50mm 1.2 is what she usually takes with her everywhere, especially when she first started but now reaches more towards using the 24-70mm lense. The 24-70mm 2.8 Canon Lense is her holy grail, she bought it used on ebay. She uses this lense for the walking/movement shots for the ability to zoom in on the subject. She owns the 24-105mm Canon lense does not use it but is planning on trying it in the future. The 35mm 1.4 that she owns uses it for her wedding photography and couples sessions, because it's wide and she's able to get a bright picture with the scenery.

Collaborations with instagram models and photographers:

Instagram Photographers:
Brandon Woelfel (@Brandonwoelfel), Jerry Maestas (@jerrymaestas), Derrick Freske (@dfreske), Irene Rudnyk (@irenerudnykphoto), Ruby James (@rubyjamesphoto), Joey Lawrence (@joeydotcom), Dani Diamond (@danidiamondphotography), Laci Havens (@lacihavens), Ron Dadon (@ronathann), Sawyer Hartman (@sawyerhartman), Phil Shaw (@p.hil), Mark Singerman (@marksingerman), Zach Allia (@zachallia), Jon Sams (@jonsams), Kohki (@kohki), Ellie (@elliephoto__), Ken (@kenJess (@ken_youthtokyo)

Instagram Models:
@madeleinemichael, @mainaiimura, @sonyaesman, @thelifeoflibs, @abby.neff, @sophiaesperanza, @georgiarisa, @taleajosephine, @wawasewa, @anisa.dagher, @brialarine, @selena_sloan, @cheristyle_, @annalisemclachlan, @pewdiepie, @itsmarziapie, @persiancatwoman, @tashimrod, @sydneyjharper, @hkassel, @tringsby, @anita_giancarli, @noathena, @kanna0123, @ameliazelenak, @zoebelleelyse, @happy.angi, @ebonylet, @oliviiapalermo, @anapauvalle, @amiahkmiller, @azizi__donnelly