Evaluation

I was really happy with how my images came out, before and after editing. I tried my best to take a whole range of different shots so I had a variety of things to pick from and I chose the ones I liked the best. I chose my images depending on how the image and composition came out, what my model was doing as I had to pick three different angles of the face and how the image looked over all - e.g, skin, the facial expression.

I was really pleased with all the images I produced, I feel as though I tried my best to set up the studio, pick my composition in which to create the looks I wanted to. I know what I wanted to produce and I feel as though I have produced exactly what I wanted.
For both my images I wanted soft dewy skin and the lighting had to be not too harsh on the face to produce something too bright. I made sure the make up on the models were how I imagined them to look on the photos, so they would have highlighted skin, contoured features and the lips or eye brows to be perfect. This helped me out in post production because I know I didn't have to edit them too much, the skins perfect minus little things I had to change, the lips and eye brows were also perfect too so I feel as though my make up helped me out a lot by not having to do so much post production.

The colour images I had a picture in my head of how I wanted them to turn out, olive skin, glowy and the pink lipstick to stand out off the skin.
The black and white images I wanted them to look dark and a grunge feel, yet the skin and features be perfectly made up. The face to be contoured slightly and highlighted so its glowy under the lighting.

When editing my pictures I found quite easy when I knew what i was doing becauseI have never used photoshop before. The lesson with Chris was really helpful for me as I feel he explains and shows us how to do things in an easy way and if we have questions he will happily answer them. He told us two use three different tools on our images and I made sire I used all three of them on each picture.
I didn't use the tools too much as I said before I wanted the make up and composition to be the best I could make it, so my images weren't changed a lot.

When the images are next to each other with the before and after there isn't a big difference in the images but you can see the difference in the skin glow and a little more contour to the face.

Overall, I feel really pleased with how all my images came out, I feel as though for my first time in a proper studio, with proper technology and equipment I did the best I could and I have learnt a lot about working in a studio.
I feel as though Chris has provided a good background knowledge for me to progress on to better things, with his background and his work he is really good to talk to if there is a problem. In the studio when we are practicing or he's teaching us about different lighting, depth of field etc, he makes it sound really easy for beginners to understand and so now feel quite confident in setting up a studio and taking pictures - which is what I did for these images.

First Set of Images -Colour

Today I got a model and took some shots to get my final images, this models colour was pink, so I decided to use these pictures in colour.
The composition I used for these images was with a hard light next to me reflecting off two reflector boards, as the side of the studio was all black. using the white sides the light was able to reflect off them and shine on to my model.
I also used a silver reflector in my shots to add some glow in to the images.
I got my model to do a few different looks, using her arms and hands, looking and turning in different directions too.

These are some of my favourite images that I took, these ones are un-edited.

I was really pleased with how they came out, changing how she used her hands and arms made al the images really interesting and I love how glam she looks too. The make up which I did was very bronzed and sun kissed and the pink lip stick adds a little colour to the images with the white back ground too.

If I was to do this shoot again I would like to have a studio which has a white wall next to me, like we did in the practice sessions as then I don't have to spend extra time getting more equipment read which I didn't know I needed.
Also, I had to change my light three times as the light wouldn't work, I even asked the technician to make sure I was doing it correctly but it turns out the bulbs just needed changing. This was quite
annoying too as that took over more time and my model was waiting for me to be ready - even though I couldn't help the lights not working it was a little annoying.

Over all, I was really pleased with how these images came out and I had fun shooting with her. I cant wait to edit them and see the final images which I have produced.

Editing My Final Images - Black and White

Today I also chose my black and white images and opened them in Adobe Bridge to edit them.

So I chose my images and opened them all up, in Adobe Bridge I opened one of the coloured ones in raw and started my editing process, they are in colour firstly because I shot them in colour and I have to change the settings to black and white.

Firstly I went down the column on the right and started editing using the sliders one by one and changed the colour to black and white so I can see what part of the image I need to change to define the skin or the structure or something else in the picture.

I didn't want to change the image so much that it was unrecognisable I just wanted to change the brightness maybe soften the skin a little bit.
I changed the exposure, brightness, blacks, high lights, the clarity, vibrance and saturation too, most of the sliders were only changed very slightly.

I had to change the settings a little more in these images compared to the colour images because in black and white the dark jumper next to the dark hair wasn't showing up that they were separate. I changed the blacks more in these images so you can see the detailed material of the top compared to the hair strands.

I then clicked done when my image was how I wanted it and I also cropped the image very slightly.
I went back in to Adobe Bridge and right clicked the image I just edited, then I copied the settings from that image and pasted it on to the two other chosen coloured images.
The settings looked really good on all the images because the lighting and the model was all kept the same in the studio. The only thing I had to change on the images separately was the blacks again. To get the definition between the hair and the jumper.

I then opened up my images in to photoshop and edited them very slightly. I used the spotting tool to remove any little hairs i thought were un necessary, and any little lines or wrinkles around the eyes. I also removed some of the hair off the top she has on. I then used the dodge and burn tools to hight light some areas and add some contouring to the face.

These are the before and after images.






As you can see there isn't any major differences as my model is perfectly beautiful any way with the strong brows which are perfect.

Editing My Final Images - Colour

Today I got my final images and I edited them using the programme Adobe Bridge.

So I chose my images and opened them all up, in Adobe Bridge I opened one of the coloured ones in raw and started my editing process.

Firstly I went down the column on the right and started editing using the sliders one by one.

I didn't want to change the image so much that it was unrecognisable I just wanted to change the brightness maybe soften the skin a little bit.
I changed the exposure, brightness, blacks, high lights, the clarity, vibrance and saturation too. most of the sliders were only changed very slightly.

I then clicked done when my image was how I wanted it and I also cropped the image very slightly.
I went back in to Adobe Bridge and right clicked the image I just edited, then I copied the settings from that image and pasted it on to the two other chosen coloured images.
The settings looked really good on all the images because the lighting and the model was all kept the same in the studio. The only thing I had to change was the crop on one of the images because the image was closer up any way, so  I left the image as it was.

I opened up my images on to Adobe photoshop and did to more changes to my images. i used the spotting tool to remove spots, lines and little wrinkles around the eyes. I then used the burn and the dodge tool to contour and highlight slightly.
I didn't edit or change the images too much in photoshop either as I personally think my images look good, my model has lovely skin and apart from adding little things to enhance the image a little more, I didn't think it needed much work.

These are the before and after images.




As you can see there isn't any major differences as my model is perfectly beautiful any way.

First Set Of Images - Black and White

Today I did a shoot with my friend to produce some beauty images, these images are going to be changed in to black and white.
These images haven't been edited yet so they are the natural images taken straight from the camera.

The set up I used for this shoot was, using low key lighting, I used a lamp with a large soft box, the light was right above me as I was stood underneath the light with the light shining on the model.
I used a silver reflector as well in most of my images to get some shine and reflection from the lighting on to the models skin.
These are some of the images I have taken

I was really happy with the outcome of these images, I loved taking them of some one who is totally different to my other set of images.
I got in to the studio and everything worked fine this time, the lighting was really good and it looked lovely on my model. I wanted her hair to be soft and have the braid to add something different to the hair. Her make up was kept soft with her big defined brows and her dark lipstick.

I was really happy with the images but if I was to do it again I would ask the model to do more things with her hands. I did get a few images but I wasn't keen on the look of them.

Over all, I'm really pleased with these images and I cant wait to edit them and make them black and white so I can see the proper images  that will be handed in.

Final Mood Boards

For my final images I have two models for my two different images. One model has blonde hair, olive skin and beautiful features and my other model has long dark hair, gorgeous thick brows and wide eyes.
They both have very different looks and so I want to create two different moods.

The first model with have a pink colour scheme, bronzed glow skin with pink lipstick. I wanted to create something girly yet fashionable and soft.
My second model will have a purple colour scheme, contoured skin, thick brows and a deep purple lip stick shade on the lips, these images will be in black and white too. I wanted to create something grungey yet fashionable in these images.

I produced my mood board in Photoshop, collecting large images from Google and adding, cropping and moving the images around the page to create a board the represents both of the looks I want to create.
Here are some of the inspirational images I found which I might use on my mood board. I chose images in which would relate to the final images I want to produce and the colour scheme, skin texture and all around look of the image.

Guy Bourdin

Guy Bourdin was a French photographer, he was very well known for his provocative fashion images and set the stage for all the new fashion photographers out there. He found his inspiration
from another photographer called Man Ray, he went to meet him when he was only 22. Man Ray was very impressed with Bourdins work, that he agreed to write him an introduction to his exhibition.

Throughout his life he went up and up making the covers of Vogue, Harpars Bazaar and shooting campaign for Chanel, Gianni Versace and Bloomingdales. He had his first ever retrospective exhibition in the Victoria and Albert Museum and then he went and toured over in Australia and France.

These are some of his most iconic photographs.