My inspiration on my mood board consists on images of poses, makeup, hair and colours.

For the poses i wanted to include poses that would involve the hands, chest and back. I wanted my model to wear a strapless top to give the illusion in the images that she wasn't wearing anything because i wanted the focus to be on the skin. I think in the right lighting the skin looks beautiful just bare. For the colour images i chose to get my model to wear a nude jumper to change up the look of the different images.

For the makeup i wanted the skin to look airbrushed but not heavy, as if the model was wearing no foundation and it was her natural skin with a glow. The skin needed to be contoured and highlighted in the correct places and i also wanted to highlight and contour the collar bones to accentuate those. For the hair i wanted it to all be off the face so that the image focused on the skin and not the hair. I decided to go with a sleek back, wet look hair style which is very popular with celebrities on red carpet events and catwalks.

For the colour in my image i wanted to have a deep burgundy colour that i incorporated by painting the models nails and using poses that involved the hands. I think that the burgundy colour went well with the glowy skin.

For the image on the left we kept the light in the same position however we positioned my body so that i was facing the light on the wall, this made my skin and the colours of the image a lot brighter, however if we were doing this again i would get my hair back off my face to see the real difference.

The image on the right was using the same light but it was pointed close to us on the wall, this really brightened up the image maybe almost too much, but this can be edited in post production. We also used a white light reflector in this image which is probably why it was a lot brighter.


I think going onto next week using the beauty lens and finding a light that is low key and soft but also captures the colours and shadows within the makeup will be our task. I think that for a first lighting test shoot this went really well and we all learnt a lot from it. Recognising the difference in brightness from using a light reflector and also the way in which the light is positioned can affect the image a lot.