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Billie Shoot.
I had a meltdown. A deadline creeping in and no photo shoot planned or booked. Billie swooped in and told me that she was free and that she'd help me do a shoot. I began to have the cogs whirl and started thinking up how I wanted her to look. At first I instantly jumped on the Tim Burton route, unfortunately I looked over my brief and I didn't think that I could have done this initial idea justice with the 'One colour' limitation. Billie has the brightest hair. I didn't want this to out stage my make up. So I just went with a really lightly defined eye with black eye liner flicks and a bright magenta lipstick. Billie can wear absolutely any single lip colour and I thought this just did the whole 'pin up' look justice.
In pin up pictures, they tend to have a bright red lipstick on but this is me and I wanted to 'Nikkify' the idea, and my Dad has always told me to K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Stupid) and I think I made the right choice.
Ross has come in to give me a hand with the hair and for that I'm forever grateful. I would have ran out of time because I didn't realise how long it was actually going to take. It was an odd experience to do someone's make up while there is someone do their hair. You're trying to not get in each others way and it's working in a lot of weird and unusual angles. We worked well together though, we didn't really get in each others way too much and if we did we just laughed it off.
We go into the Infinity Cove where I've booked the studio and there's no free studios. Which is odd, because I had definitely booked it. I peak around the curtains of the studios in use and when I get to the last one, there is just a bunch of people sat there watching another shoot. I politely ask them to move and begin pulling the lights above and setting up. I decided to go with a black Colorama. In technical sessions I've found it a challenge to get the lighting right because of her hair and I thought black would be a good starting point.
At first the lighting was horrible. I didn't do it right. I adjusted the lights and I was really happy with the first lot of photos I'd taken. One thing I did notice was that trying to catch a natural pin-up pose with Billie was a challenge. She loves posing. She's good at it too but I didn't want it to look too posed. So I had to work extremely quickly to catch her when she was in between poses. I really eased up not long after the shoot had begun and I had a direction I wanted it to go in so I became really conscious of little things that needed to be adjusted in between frames.
When I felt happy with the amount of photos I had taken on the Black Colorama, I decided it was time for a change. We swapped the black for a grey. I like this change it really made Billie's hair pop. I took some more pictures and then I wrapped the Black and White shoot.
The main studio in the infinity cove had become free so I moved all of the equipment over and decided to shoot the 'Colour Pop' All of the main studio is white so I thought this would work in my favour. After snapping a few test shots I readjusted the lighting because it looked too intense to start with. I found it was really easy getting the photos for this brief. I was more impressed with the results from shooting on the white background.
Something I have learnt from this session is that I need to learn to not get really stressed out when things don't work out straight away.
In pin up pictures, they tend to have a bright red lipstick on but this is me and I wanted to 'Nikkify' the idea, and my Dad has always told me to K.I.S.S (Keep It Simple Stupid) and I think I made the right choice.
Ross has come in to give me a hand with the hair and for that I'm forever grateful. I would have ran out of time because I didn't realise how long it was actually going to take. It was an odd experience to do someone's make up while there is someone do their hair. You're trying to not get in each others way and it's working in a lot of weird and unusual angles. We worked well together though, we didn't really get in each others way too much and if we did we just laughed it off.
We go into the Infinity Cove where I've booked the studio and there's no free studios. Which is odd, because I had definitely booked it. I peak around the curtains of the studios in use and when I get to the last one, there is just a bunch of people sat there watching another shoot. I politely ask them to move and begin pulling the lights above and setting up. I decided to go with a black Colorama. In technical sessions I've found it a challenge to get the lighting right because of her hair and I thought black would be a good starting point.
At first the lighting was horrible. I didn't do it right. I adjusted the lights and I was really happy with the first lot of photos I'd taken. One thing I did notice was that trying to catch a natural pin-up pose with Billie was a challenge. She loves posing. She's good at it too but I didn't want it to look too posed. So I had to work extremely quickly to catch her when she was in between poses. I really eased up not long after the shoot had begun and I had a direction I wanted it to go in so I became really conscious of little things that needed to be adjusted in between frames.
When I felt happy with the amount of photos I had taken on the Black Colorama, I decided it was time for a change. We swapped the black for a grey. I like this change it really made Billie's hair pop. I took some more pictures and then I wrapped the Black and White shoot.
The main studio in the infinity cove had become free so I moved all of the equipment over and decided to shoot the 'Colour Pop' All of the main studio is white so I thought this would work in my favour. After snapping a few test shots I readjusted the lighting because it looked too intense to start with. I found it was really easy getting the photos for this brief. I was more impressed with the results from shooting on the white background.
Something I have learnt from this session is that I need to learn to not get really stressed out when things don't work out straight away.
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