So this weekend, Studio TimBo was fired up ready for portraits of the immaculate variety. The shoot was to produce portfolio images for make-up artist hopeful and general knower of all things stylish and fashionable, Evie Goodman (my sister). The images are testament to weeks of style planning in work books and research collages. Put together for an enrichment art award in between AS Levels at school. Using herself and her friend Vanessa Norton as models, she personally styled everything, and I mean everything as I am thoroughly useless at this particular activity. A strange experience to have to sit around and do so much idle waiting I have to say. However, the rewards for what I was then presented with to shoot was absolutely worth it.
Whether you like this commercial aesthetic or the respective styles is neither here nor there, the qualities to be recognised here are the transformation and contrasting effects in the styles in each set of portraits. Using Make up tones and application levels to alter structure, definition and contours in the name of feminine beauty. For more details on the inspiration and aims for each look, regarding her project, you can contact her via facebook here.
Shooting this project was extremely rewarding as I'm sure the shots will help to portray and as a whole, the project does great justice to the investment I put into acquiring the Studio TimBo equipment. Once again though, I wish to express my concern for the colour calibration on certain screens. My heart sinks when I see the colour saturation of these images on certain monitors. If you are finding them slightly odd, take into consideration they are all best viewed on Apple Mac screens (Print Calibrated).
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Style 4:
These last two were my personal adaptation of style 4. Retracting just slightly from the warmer glows in skin tone and blonde hair in favour of a more porcelain aesthetic. See what you think...
