Personal Shoot No.10 Work Diary

In this photograph I have chosen to only show half of the models face as this creates room for the audience to imagine the other half and what she is looking at. I also chose to use a bright red lipstick as this stands out from the black background and the models skin as well as giving her a sophisticated appearance. Also the model appears to be glowing which works very well with a commercial makeup photograph as it gives the audience the sense that this make up make your skin glow. 

In this photograph I once again chose to only show part of the face however this was to emphasise the eye and mascara.  The black background allows the bright yellow mascara to stand out and be the main focal point of the photograph. The eye is placed on the centre line of the composition. The photograph uses the rule of thirds by positioning the end of the mascara in the first third of the photograph. In the last third is the eye in which the mascara is being applied this allows the audience to look at the photograph from left to right as a book would be read.


If I were to do this shoot again, to improve it I would look at other make up products and consider doing a before and after style shoot to show the effect of using the particular product. I would look at photographing the product alone in order to create a range of advertising techniques.

What influenced me to do this shoot?
I was influenced to do this shoot by two of my previous shoots lokkingbat commercail make up photograph. I have already look at photographing the product and video therfore this time I wanted to look at showing the model wearing and applying the product.

As a result of this shoot, I feel that I have done all I can with make up therefore I would like to continue to look at something different

Future shoot
In a future shoot I would like to look at a different approach to commercial photography such as food as this is an idea which I was interested in looking at from the beginning.