Photomedia: First Deadline

For my shoot, I used black boards either side of the model to cast shadows on the face. I used a black background and had a softbox directly in front of the model, slightly above n tilted down. The set up is pictured in a previous post.

These are my final photos that have been slightly edited.

Evaluation

I am really happy with how both my makeup and the photos came out. I had a lot of support from the technicians at college with the lighting- setting up and using the equipment. I used a canon D7000 with a black backdrop, black boards and a softbox. I think the black background worked especially well on the last shoot because of the contrast between the colourful hair and makeup and the darkness behind. Looking at the images now, I wonder if some of the other shoots would look better with a lighter background, maybe white or grey.  It's a shame I could only get the models so late in the option or I would have liked to try other lighting set ups and backgrounds.

My second model, Lucy, did turn up late. This meant I had no time to take off and redo her makeup myself so I had to just leave her own makeup on. This did not fit in well as I wanted the blue eye shoot to be very natural. Had I not already done Jael's makeup, I would have just switched the brown and blue eye plans around a bit but it was too late to change that, too. 

It's a shame I don't have more photoshop knowledge. I'd have liked to touch up some of the makeup that didn't translate so well in the pictures like the green under my first model's eye. I'm going to try and spend some time over the christmas holidays watching photoshop tutorials and learn a bit to help next time.