It was a couple of weeks ago I did this shoot but I hadn’t got round to putting pictures up from the shoot, so here they are! The model was called Ruby, she had a really interesting look and was really easy to work with. We were mostly going for beauty head shots. For these kind of shots it is important to light evenly to produce clean, healthy and natural looking skin.

Thanks for looking, more soon!

It’s always fun to experiment with new ideas and styles. A local Oxford make-up artist and I did a test with a model recently to try out some interesting and different make-up ideas.

To add another element to the shoot I introduced a silk cloth which I asked the model to flick across her face. It’s quite hit and miss but if you carefully time your shots and are patient you can get some really interesting photographs. In this shot you can see that the face is in focus but the silk is not, this keeps the attention on the model.

After doing several shots like this I then dropped the silk from above the model’s head to give a different effect.

Again it is really just repeating the same process with many poses to get photos which work!

The make up being applied by Emma before the shoot

The last make-up look was quite bold so I wanted a strong look from the model to go with it. All these shots were lit with one  Elinchrom 250 mono-block and a shoot through umbrella, a white reflector to the right of the model and  a silver reflector below the models face to acheive a very even, flawless skin tone.

A friend of mine, Emma, is in her final year of make-up studies (not sure if that is the correct term for the course!) at the London School of Fashion. I went along and photographed the result of their project which they designed the make-up and styling for. The shoot location was a balcony just off of Oxford Street in London

Here are a couple more from the shoot. Coloured gel used to change the colour of the window behind the model

This was the background from the balcony looking out across the city. The balcony window was quite small so couldn’t shoot any wider than this shot. I had a great time on the shoot, a big thanks to Emma and her group of make-artists; Emma Mason, Liz Tulloch, Kenny Chang, Shara Wilson and Alexia Lazarou.