For the camera setting we had to use 1/160, but with the aperture used F5.8 or F6.8, because the higher it is the more light will come in and the more lower it is there will be less light. Then always on manual, and the lens on automatic, as then you can move it to zoom in or out
Have to use a tripod when doing photoshoots like this as can't hold it as would not be exactly how you want it, depends how you are working.
When in the studio, if the roll paper background is run out, always ask the technical staff to do so.
Never wear shoes when walking on the paper and the floor near to it.
Make sure the cable are put back properly when you are done and when you are shooting, as they can be dangerous to trip or anything.
Always take back the equipment you have used the photography hatch when you have done, or the next morning.
Also the equipment in the studio go back to where the proper place is for them.
You can book any studio, but have to do so in the technical office in the JM building.
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When using photoshop i used the editing program that came up with the photograph already in it showing the raw image, which is what i like best to use, for the first one i edited it slightly with the whites, shadow and highlight, to get the nice shadow on the side of the face , but the highlight to make the other side of the fact stand be much brighter, as didn't use much light for this shoot.
The second i done the same sort of thing but didn't use much highlight as makes the skin blurred over so you can't see any texture of the actual skin. But i did use it less than the other as you can see the face much clearer in this one.
Third the one i didn't like as much as the other two, but shows how i wanted it to look, but i like how the eyes stand out than anything else. The editing i used was much more shadow and highlight on the cheekbone, as the quality is a lot nicer and the light is brighter looking.
The editing on these were the same program, that comes up on photoshop when you open the image from the file itself. But used saturation to get it black and white and then clarity of how subtle i wanted the image to look and i chose it be soft, as the lighting was quite bright anyway, what i did to achieve this was using the boards close to the model on each side.
The editing i thought was to make it subtle and soft, especially as the model is so close to the camera.
This one i like the best and has the best lighting and the quality is good, as for the skin i have used the highlighter to make it have less texture, but you can still see under the eyes though, the most that stand out is the eyes, but it shows the skills that i have learnt, but especially with editing i think works better than what i took with the camera.
Long hair and wavy for the colour beauty someone who is medium height, because as i thought it was natural i wanted it to be how it is naturally, but i think it works, because the poses that were done were to do with the hair and thats why i wanted it in this style.
I chose a messy ponytail, as the model i was using i thought suited that look and the look i wanted for the monochrome photographs, and be slightly different than the other.
http://melissamercier.com/Blog/?p=9539
I like this one as it looks more like the shoot i did, but she has shorter hair and a different colour.
i have chosen image i have chosen images i have found to do with being natural and the products.
http://www.naturalproductsnetwork.com/watch/natural-makeup-for-a-stunning-summer-look/
I think that they work well on the mood board as it shows the what could have used to achieve it, but was simple just to show the skills i could do.
I can't remember what this exact product was, but is a powder to show the natural side of it, but what wasn't used, as the models looked how they would look day to day.
These are to show the sort of things the models wore, which were black, as didn't want something to focus away from the face and wasn't shooting the whole figure, but just headshots.
I included flowers that haven't got much colour, that i thought went with the natural look, which makes the mood board more interesting and not just clothes and makeup, which i think is slightly boring.
Is a comedy, Musical and romance. About a fashion photographer who is interested in a girl from a bookstore, who had photographed by accident and he thinks she could be a model. In then which they fall for each other, and chaos ensues. The way she changes so much is really interesting, of how being with someone or someone telling you what they like about you, makes you show that off and change for the better. I have looked as this film as it is about a fashion photographer and what happens to her, and is interesting as she goes through a change in her appearance and i think that is good to watch, especially as it is Audrey Hepburn and is strange to see her looking unfashionable at the beginning.
I really like the shadow on this one, as you can see it behind the model and on one side of the face. It is exactly what i wanted to achieve for this project and a good starting point for the next time.
I think this is the best out of all of them, as the lighting is soft and is a lot brighter, i have edited it slightly with the highlight, but you can still see the quality of the skin. The eyes really stand out and i like that they do,as it brings something to the image and pieces of hair in her face, makes a good composition.
I like the composition and the quality of the image, as i have edited it slightly, but still looks much like the raw image straight from the camera. What it think i could improve is how is how i set up the lighting, as i think i need to improve that.
On all of them i have edited some of it only slightly to make it look a little bit better in the quality on the face and how the shadow is on the side of the face, but other than that it didn't need much doing to it, as i think they came out well for something i haven't done before. To me this is the best one out of all of them, as she is in a side view, but looking at the camera, and makes her eyes stand out really well.
I think they look good, as it has a warm tone to the photograph and show the skills i have learnt, but i think i do need to work on the lighting a little,as that is what i can struggle with how much i should use and where.
Shot on the other side of the face and i think it works, but has quite a lot of shadow on it on the side of the face, but i think eyes looking at the camera, make it look better than looking away, i thought.
I was looking at hair here for the beauty photoshoot and wanted it to look natural and not over the top and that it goes with the lips or eyes. The plaits are easy to do here and make it look like a regular day.
The hair over the head looks nice and makes it have a nice shape and a undone feel to it. I have looked at these all different types of hairstyle for the shoot, so i could have a range of what would work on the model to see what is best. They are mostly the same, as i like the same sort of idea, so that they would not be load of work to do, just to get the technical part of the camera looking good as well, so that come out looking good enough for the brief.
A high ponytail also looks good when done properly, but the curl at the end i would probably not do as, as i'm not so good at that, but if i used proper curlers i would though.
I like the look of a buckle like hair band on the back of the hair to make it look natural, but making a effort about it and the plait, i like to do and gives it added texture and depth.
First i have looked at colours on the lips or eyes, but natural makeup to show the perfect base project. What i like about this is the purple of the lips, but a bit over the top with the make up, and not natural. I could look at the eye lids being shiny and look as though there is a brown eyeshadow.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/385339311845236405/
I was looking at green eyeshadow, but i think it is not as natural as just colour on the lips, might be a bit to much. The face is quite made up here to and even the image has been touched up, i chose it for the colour, as i think it would look good and show what i want to achieve.
I was looking at the colour photographs and what inspirational poses, to make it natural. The colours all work well together.
The photograph is very bright and makes the hair and lips stand out against the white.
The colour is more coral, but i like how it is put on and i think i would be able to use what i have learnt to apply that. The minimal make up is good and shows, no makeup, makeup look.
I want to do the pose, moody for black and white and mostly touching the hair and face, but on this you can see the whole person and feel like this would work. I like the lighting on the face and body, with some shadow, it does look moody and a shimmery tone to it, and i would like to create this for the black and white.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/444871269418421125/
I like the look of the face half looking and half not, the colour is really nice and the make up is minimal. When doing this pose, you would have to go quite close up, to get the effect.This is a lot different than the other with the tone and shows it much closer to the face and shows everything, which is what i dont like as much, but it makes the model look good though at the angle.
This one i like the most as it shows the old fashioned feel to it, with the hands and the face slightly looking at the camera. I want to try this out,as it is interesting of looking half at the camera and body turned away.
I chose this as it is a like a beauty shot, but it is a inspiration for the colour photoshoot i want to do, the best thing is where the hand is and and i want to include the arm or hand in it for both.
http://www.fashiongonerogue.com/candice-swanepoel-versace-eyewear-fall-2011-campaign/
I have looked and researched 8 photographers from the BBC Four documentary, where Rankin basically copied the way they were done, but in his own way, inspired by these Photographers
Cecil Beaton Richard Avedon David Bailey Helmut Newton Erwin Blumenfeld Lillian Bassman Guy Bourdin Herb Ritts Rankin
1. Cecil Beaton:
Cecil Beaton was one of the most famous and leading fashion photographers and his work was very classic, elegant and feminine. Beaton a lot of famous people, including Coco Chanel, Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and many more. A lot of his work is Fashion for magazine and just for what he wanted to do. But he did touch up the photographs after the shoot, at the printing stage.
Beaton was a good set and costume design, which he did as well as photography and what he wanted to be known for to, He was very much into theatre, and he even done the costume for the adaptation of My Fair Lady, where he won 2 oscars, as well as doing the set. Another thing he done was war photography, in world war 2, he documented what the war did and the people around it.
I think this image looks so elegant and show the true fashion and what women were like in that era. The way he has photographed it and got the models to pose, is as though they are just in the moment, in a way that they look like they just doing what they naturally do.
The Light is very natural, as a slight shade is against them on one side. I love how the clothing and background and the flowers on the plants are all white, which makes it look very feminine and innocent, which captures the fashion and culture at that time.
The makeup is very beauty and plain, as though they are going to a ball or out for the night, so the clothing is over the top, but the make up isn't, otherwise it would be over whelming.
Twiggy was very iconic to photograph at that era, as she was popular, and had a certain style and look that really captured the 1960s perfectly, but also capturing the mod look. Up close the freckles, really give another dimension and makes her look really natural.
The way the under eyes are done, is eye liner, basically lining under the eyelashes and get longer as you get to the outer corner, which made it look like the eyelashes are stuck together, and this look was very iconic, Twiggy made it what it was.
But the way Cecil Beaton captures her is beautiful, with the shade glading across her face, but mostly on one side, and he has most probably touched it up, cause there is more than just natural light.
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Jean Shrimpton was an model and actress, who was famous in the sixties as another icon and was one of Vogue's cover girl and was named by a magazine, the first supermodel, before it was ever called that.
The way Beaton has captured her here, does reminding me of between the Elizabethan and Georgian era, so very Marie Antoinette.
The way it is taken is everything is very white and elegant, but it does have that sixties feel to it, which makes it contemporary at that time and even now. He captures them a way that they are so beautiful and makes them stand out so much more.
Ricard Avedon was an American fashion photographer in the post war era, who was very much involved in portraiture and his work was very extroadinary at the time. Avedon worked with Harper's Bazaar at the from the middle of the 1940s and then he worked there for 20 years doing then another around at American Vogue.
Avedon's work i think is more my style with the 40s style and how the models are positioned are what makes it interesting. The photographs are very feminine and show how women can be powerful and show they can be more than just nice to look like.
I think it really shows the fashion of that era and how women where portrayed in that time,
To me this looks very old fashioned, even the ancient greek times, with the flowers braided into the hair, and the gown adorned with flowers, over one shoulder, really stands out to me as that era. The black and white brings more to it than colour would, because it shows the emotion he wanted to get across and how it would have looked originally.
David Bailey is an British photographer for fashion and celebrities, now he focuses on portraiture, which is what he is most interested in, But he did work as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for others, but he is very art inspired, especially by Picasso and looks at his work in a art way. He is a filmmaker, painter and sculptor. His work is very bright and has a lot of feminine composition. He was very famous for fashion, photographing mostly models, such as Kate Moss, Jean Shrimpton, twiggy, and Mick Jagger, even The Beatles, and there is even more, that he has done.
What i like about him is that his work is different and that he was finding new ways of doing things and wasn't afraid to do it. I also like how he sees his work as art and not just a photograph and how he feels when taking them. When looking at his work, i don't think i have ever seen anyones' work the same.
A website with a short doc with a interview with David Bailey last year;-
I love 70s fashion and how it is portrayed through his work. The pose make me think it is child like and a pose that i have not seen any other photographer do like this,which to me it is iconic, in terms of style and how she expresses her self.
Alot of photographer at that time and now, use there partner or anything in that sense to photograph, which is who this was to Bailey at the time, which is why i think the shot, has a lot of emotion to it, even shows passion of doing what he loves.
This one is more famous and the way the hood surrounds his face, makes it look rounder and with white background, as soon as you look at it you focus on his face and how it is positioned. I like the idea, but to me, i don't like portraits, as much, as there is not much going on in it, but with Bailey's work there is something about it that makes me like it.
This one does look child like, with the hair and the way her hand is in her mouth, which is what children do a lot, and this photograph is good, but i don't like how the model is portrayed this way and i think women should be showed in a more dominate way sometimes.
Helmut Newton was a photographer who was born in Germany, but then moved to Australia. He was a iconic fashion photographer, because his work was very erotically based, especially woman depicted in them, and where all black and white that were for Vogue and other magazines, but specfically Vogue, as he worked for the Australian Vogue in the 5 s and British Vogue in the 60s.
Im not sure about his work, i don't mind it, but is a bit to erotic for what I' m interested in looking at and not so keen on how they are portrayed in them. The quality of them are so good, but the ones i have chosen below, are my favourites out of all of his work, as they show something i haven't seen done in that way before, with how the model/s are positioned, making it more natural.
This image shows woman in masculine clothing and the pose shows a lot of authority, which is unusual in fashion photography. The main focus is the woman standing there and as soon as you look at it you focus on her, as it is different, because a lot of photographs, especially fashion, makes women look submissive and i love how this is far from it, and i wish i was her, not a care in the world and be who she wants to be.
I like how she looks slightly submissive, as she wants her to be, as though they are poking fun at men being dominant, and that by using a women model to do it instead, makes it stand out. I like how the clothes match one another of black and white, it makes them look of that era, where the woman coordinated with what the man was wearing.
5. Erwin Blumenfeld
Erwin Blumenfeld was a fashion photographer and he worked for magazines, such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar in the 1940s and 1950s. I think his work is very iconic, and shows fashion photography in a new light, with contemporary looking images of the models and the poses really show the fashion and what they make you feel like.
He was so ahead of his time, the way he changed the images at the printing stage, and made them look so modern, even though they are so abstract, that they do look contemporary, thats what i like about him and how he makes you look at it and think about it more than just being a regular fashion photograph.
This work is very iconic and shows how he is ahead of his time, as the image itself looks contemporary. I have never seen this done before from anyone else. I love old hollywood glamour looking photography and the fashion of that time.
First 15 minutes of the documentary of 'The man of shot beautiful women', Erwin Blumenfeld and just talking about who he was and what he done and even his death.
6. Lillian Bassman Bassman was a amercian photographer and painter and she worked as a fashion photographer, in the 40s and 50s for magazines, such as Harper's Bazaar and New York Times.
All her images look over exposed and even blurry, as though they were moving as she took the photograph.
I love how they are all overexposed and bring a new meaning to fashion photography, that i have never seen, in the dark room they are manipulated, to get this great effect.
The best thing about this is the hat and how it makes the model stand out and it reminds me of Maleficent and makes the model look kind of scary, especially with the pale make up and dark lips. Th pose reminds me of something older than what it was in that era, and looks like the Elizabethan portraits of the 16th century, including the hand, which is what they liked to show in the paintings, but in a modern way, with the head and shoulder facing away from the camera.
Guy Bourdin was a fashion photographer, born in France. The work he done was for Harper's Bazaar and vogue also. His work is very surreal, and even mysterious with the way he shoots, of the models in all strange poses of a way to tell the viewer that its not just about the fashion, but of how the models are used within the photo and what it suggests.
I don't like Bourdin's work so much as the colours is to harsh and the models are so made up, even the poses just don't really show the fashion, for it to be of that genre. The photographs don't really make sense to me, they are interesting and are a good inspiration, but the poses some to sexual, maybe, i like it to be more natural.
With this photography, it is very bright and shows the mysteriousness of what i was talking about, of thinking what exactly are they doing and why. They look sexual and the women look submissive and want to show what they have to offer, which is why i don't like his work that much, they are very suggestive and he does it in a particular way, that makes it strange sometimes to understand.
Ritts was a american photographer and looked a lot at black and white photography, what i like about him is that he focused on a main thing, but expanded on it, in technique and the style. With the celebrities he made them look amazing and even made them famous of what he done in the photographs and really made a name for them and himself.
Ritts work i like of the portraits, instead of far away poses, and he did photograph Madonna a lot. I like this one the most out of all the ones he has done. Mainly because she looks so fierce and not worrying what people think of her, as if to say i don't care. When it is in black and white, it brings something to it, making it have more emotion to it.
I like the more natural look of it, and it reminds me of the 70s with the wavy hair and plain make up, looking tanned. The portrait is different of how she is looking, like she is a mermaid that has just come out of the sea and doesn't know what people will think of her.
Johnny Depp photographed by Ritts is interesting, in the way he is posed, more relaxed, than the others, which i think, because he has that attitude, but his personality is wild and strange in a good way and by doing that pose, makes you see him in a another light than usual.
This was the same shoot as the first image, but from far away instead, I like how it is blurry except for her hand pointing to the camera, so it is hiding her face, as though she doesn't want you to see it, but listen to what she has to say.
Rankin is a fashion photographer and is known for his portraits as well, the work he does is strange and poses you wont usually see, but a lot of his work is inspired by other photographers, that he likes. What i like about his work is that it is interesting and shows the person that he photographers, in a different light than what you usually see them, especially celebrities, when he looks at fashion he really makes it stand out of what poses he puts them in. He also launched a website and magazine called Hunger Magazine and Hunger TV, i really like this as it is about music, fashion and anything, It really tells you about cool things that are coming out and what is happening at the moment in terms of art and culture, photography, film and beauty.
When looking at his work, it is modern, but vintage at the same time, by getting inspiration by different photographers, I like this image, as the background is a desert sort of area, which makes this look, look like a Mad Max scene, and her being overwhelmed by the scarf around her neck, makes her look like she is authority, especially because she is in black. The pose is kind of child like, which i think ruins it, as i think she wants to be in control.
Coco Rocha is the model and she styled by Way Perry in a Roberto Cavalli for The Hungermagazine, the hair by Nick Irwin, makeup by Caroline Saulnier.
I like this one as it looks more like the shoot i did, but she has shorter hair and a different colour.
I was looking at hair here for the beauty photoshoot and wanted it to look natural and not over the top and that it goes with the lips or eyes. The plaits are easy to do here and make it look like a regular day.
A high ponytail also looks good when done properly, but the curl at the end i would probably not do as, as i'm not so good at that, but if i used proper curlers i would though.
First i have looked at colours on the lips or eyes, but natural makeup to show the perfect base project. What i like about this is the purple of the lips, but a bit over the top with the make up, and not natural. I could look at the eye lids being shiny and look as though there is a brown eyeshadow.
Im thinking about focusing on the lips to show the minimal makeup, but a light tone, so it is not over the top.
I want to do the pose, moody for black and white and mostly touching the hair and face, but on this you can see the whole person and feel like this would work. I like the lighting on the face and body, with some shadow, it does look moody and a shimmery tone to it, and i would like to create this for the black and white.
I chose this as it is a like a beauty shot, but it is a inspiration for the colour photoshoot i want to do, the best thing is where the hand is and and i want to include the arm or hand in it for both.
Avedon's work i think is more my style with the 40s style and how the models are positioned are what makes it interesting. The photographs are very feminine and show how women can be powerful and show they can be more than just nice to look like.
This one is more famous and the way the hood surrounds his face, makes it look rounder and with white background, as soon as you look at it you focus on his face and how it is positioned. I like the idea, but to me, i don't like portraits, as much, as there is not much going on in it, but with Bailey's work there is something about it that makes me like it.
The best thing about this is the hat and how it makes the model stand out and it reminds me of Maleficent and makes the model look kind of scary, especially with the pale make up and dark lips. Th pose reminds me of something older than what it was in that era, and looks like the Elizabethan portraits of the 16th century, including the hand, which is what they liked to show in the paintings, but in a modern way, with the head and shoulder facing away from the camera.
When looking at his work, it is modern, but vintage at the same time, by getting inspiration by different photographers, I like this image, as the background is a desert sort of area, which makes this look, look like a Mad Max scene, and her being overwhelmed by the scarf around her neck, makes her look like she is authority, especially because she is in black. The pose is kind of child like, which i think ruins it, as i think she wants to be in control.
