Photomedia: Photographer Research

Instagram was a very useful place for me to find photographers. I already follow a lot of makeup artists so through them I can find various photographers.

Tina Einsen- www.t-two-photo.com/

The black background really emphasises the colour in the makeup. The lighting aids the contour of the face and adds to what the makeup already started. 

Jayesh Pankhania- http://www.jayeshpankhania.com/

The lighter background works well on more natural makeup where highlight and strobing is more of the emphasis than contour. I also like having one eye as the focal point with the other either hidden by hair, shadow, or just cut out of the shot.

Margaret Kimura- www.margaretkimura.com/

What I like about these photos is that even though the eyes are mostly the focal point, there are other things going on in the pictures. I'm extremely drawn to the photo on the bottom right, where the hair is covering her face. I would me more inclined to make the eye stand out just a little bit more though, maybe with makeup or just using a model with a more striking eye.

Paul Ward- http://www.paulward.net/

Ward's style is very dark and not usually what I'd like, but I think it captures eyes in a really different way than the others. Maybe this is something to do with the masculine models.

Photomedia: Makeup Ideas

This is a brilliant piece of art by Lara Hawker. The use of the human features painted as an animal mixed with her original features is really strikings and it's something I'd love to bring into my work.

I couldn't find the original artist for this, but I love how striking and creepy this is. I think a full face photo of this where the painted eye resembles the natural eye would look amazing.

Blue Eyes:

This was on a BuzzMakeup post. I like the simplicity of this makeup and also the photo itself. The way it's taken really focuses on the eye because it's the only part of the face that is fully shown. I think to create more emphasis on the eyes I would use a darker brow and more of a neutral lip colour.

Brown Eyes:

This Desi Perkins makeup look is one of the most beautiful I've seen for brown eyes. The lashes, warm colours and strong brows makes the eyes appear so bright and gives quite a liquidity to them. 

Green Eyes:

Again, ridiculous college internet restrictions means I can't find the original artist for this makeup. For the green eyes, I'd love to do a bit more of a wacky, avant garde makeup. This one is particularly effective because the skin, though it would have makeup on, looks very bare and natural. This completely contrasts with the bright, extravagant makeup around the eyes. I also like that there is no hair in the picture, no lip colour and the neck is bare too.

Final option: Photomedia - Initial thoughts

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For this project, we chose a word from random in a dictionary. Mine was 'EAGLE EYE'. I am pretty happy with this and I think I'm going to focus on the 'eye' part as I know I really want to focus on makeup/body paint for this. I come from a makeup background, studying Production Arts for two years prior to this course. I haven't enjoyed my previous two options so I'm really hoping I can get stuck into this and really love it.

This is my initial thinking for the project. I think I'm going to do a mix between body painting different animal eyes and doing makeup on different colour human eyes.