Final images

These are our final choice as a group for the submission of images for this brief.

We have tried to choose varied images that capture different moods, setups, styling, make-up and posing.

Contact sheets to the final shoot

Here are the contacts sheets to the shoot. They are a little small for some reason but they do the job!

Fashion Shoot Time Lapse And a Bit of Video Footage

Whilst the model was getting her make up done I set up my camera on a tripod and got 25 frames and I have therefore done a short time lapse.

It would have been ideal to have had a camera setup with a timer remote release to take shots througout the whole shoot.

Time Lapse



Here is abit of footager taken on the day. I've put together the small segment to get a feel for some of the shoot we did.

Thank you for every body on the day. The styling, make-up, and Model were fantastic.

Fashion Shoot Footage

Rankin and Make-up

I had a break from researching for face make-up fashion shoots, and then I remembered my trusty inspiration in the industry - Rankin. I remember looking at some of his stuff a while back and I came across some super images of close cropped face make-up shots and they were so vivid and vibrant in colour.


I got a bit excited and have added lots of his images because they are a good source of inspiration for the final shoot.

Although this is a common studio shot and this lighting is seen often, the shadow on image is dramatic and works well.

There is a sense of motion to these images, which is nicely created with some motion, either with a slower shutter on the camera or in post production, yet it still works. the colours are consistent to.

http://www.rankin.co.uk/portfolio

Inspiration from table lamps

In our decision to work with shadows, Eve and Terri had sourced some images of table lamps and they have provided inspiration to move into doing stencils for the shoot.

http://terri7.tumblr.com/

http://www.xeviexfenx.blogspot.com/

I had remembered that Sign making companies cut material into all sorts of shapes and so I contacted a friend in the business who pointed me in the right direction. As a result I designed some vector shapes in Adobe Illustrator so that the laser cutting machine can cut them out.


Here are some of the designs.

These are set to A1 and cut on mount board.

Make-up

I have noticed that both Eve and Terri have uploaded some great images of face make-up on their blogs and so I wanted to add one to this myself.

I think that make-up is another vital part of fashion shoot and it can make it really effective as imagery to look at.

from Terri's Blog - http://terri7.tumblr.com

Shu Uemura

I like this image I found on the front cover of LX Magazine, Winter 08.

The image works really well, the colours of the hair and make-up have made it very obvious and striking and in saying that, this image in Black and white wouldn't quite have the same attraction.

As we will be working with shadows in our shoot, the make-up is going to be a big part to the image and so we want it to stand out or be some what striking.

front cover of LX Magazine, Winter 08

As part of our shoot we have an excellent MUA called Emma Kerr and she has done loads of make-up for photo shoot and so we are glad to have her be apart of our shoot.

These are some of the shoots she has done make-up for.

MUA - Emma Kerr

Photographer - Asia Burrill

Images from http://www.ladydphotography.co.uk/

Models

In searching and choosing the best matched model, Terri had contact with someone Called Hazel Whittle who had modelled for a 3rd year Fashion show and who is currently modelling through an agency.



We think that she will be ideal for the shoot for the mixture of the projected shadows and possible make-up which will hopefully provide a nice contrast for an image.

Hazel

Another one of Sundsbo images. The colours are great and the use of the balloons wrapped around the model is good. Although balloons are light, they appear a little ridgid and restraining by the way they have been used in this image. Has a sense of linking in with one of our main original concepts of being surrounded and so tightly bound into technology, yet this isn't really technology.




Magazine: Vogue China

Issue: April 2009

Model: Magdalena Frackowiak Elite, DNA models

Photography by Solve Sundsbo

Image found @ http://www.designscene.net/2009/04/solve-sundsbo-for-vogue-china.html

In my researching I found these images in Dazed Digital. I really like the shoot, very effective.

It's photographed by Sohrab Vahdat and the masks are designed by Maiko Takeda, and they were made to be worn so the shadows do the talking. They totally do that.

I Love the way the mask has been used as stencils for shadows and it is as though it is painted onto the model. The Cat is great.

images found @ http://www.dazeddigital.com/Fashion/gallery/19/4191/3/Maiko_Takeda_Moves_In_Shadows