Devon Photography Training's Workshop Styling and Looks Pt 1.

Here's a selection of different looks that we have photographed on previous workshops, each image is credited with our Stylist, MUA, Model, Hair Stylist, Photographer etc. Quite a lot of work goes into getting the right pieces to work together in our looks behind the scenes. It's another creative outlet for our team to work with, I'm amazed with what Jo seems to effortlessly put together whilst still making our models look amazing!

Natural Light Photography Workshop - Look 1, Dark Boho.

Models: Candice Peachey and Nikita Crombie

Stylist/MUA/Hair Stylist: Lady C

Photographer: GemmieV

The Look: This is a dark Boho look, intended to give us a darker, more rock and roll look than flowery and feminine. We shot against fallen trees with spiky branches to emphasize the harsher look. Our Stylist Jo brought some beautiful fabric skirts with her and a vintage jacket to help complete this look. Jo used quite heavy eye makeup to fit the theme of this idea tying the whole look in with the location.

Natural Light Photography Workshop - Look 2, Flower Crowns.

Models: Candice Peachey and Nikita Crombie

Stylist/MUA/Hair Stylist: Lady C

Photographer: GemmieV

The Look: Jo plus two assistants made Flower Crowns and styled the models with sheer floaty material and frilly pastel coloured dresses to give a soft feminine look. 

We shot this look in the meadow to match the soft styling with the long grass using a shallow depth of field to give an overall soft image. The warm natural light worked beautifully with this look and the makeup was kept natural to suit. 

Candice and Nikita kept their expressions and poses soft and feminine also.

We also took Nikita's top dress off and just worked with the sheer material and a silky play suit underneath, Jo added a chunky coloured beaded necklace to give us yet more variety by slightly changing the look.

We changed Candice's look by taking off her top layer leaving her in a silky vest which we then coupled with a pink fluffy jacket to add another element to work with the look.

Natural Light Photography Workshop - Look 3, Playful and Feminine.

Models: Candice Peachey and Nikita Crombie

Stylist/MUA/Hair Stylist: Lady C

Photographer: GemmieV

The Look: Using the crowns again but in a different location with different dresses, this time quite a simple but playful style. We used the lines of trees to create a vanishing point in our images and got the models to move up and down the scene so we could experiment with depth of field. 

Nikita swapped her plain blue dress for a floral print dress and we shot against some reeds just down from this location too, again with the crown. We shot down the reeds to get the depth of field obvious in the image, this really highlighted Nikita and her head dress.

Natural Light Photography Workshop - Look 4, Lumberjack Chick.

Models: Candice Peachey and Nikita Crombie

Stylist/MUA/Hair Stylist: Lady C

Photographer: GemmieV and Kelvin Bennett

The Look: The lumberjack look was inspired by our main prop, a huge timber crane truck that we borrowed for the shoot. We opted for plaid shirts and cut off denim shorts with boots. The girls had natural makeup and plaits for this look. We had the odd useful prop to work with too such as hammers, chainsaws, diesel cans and axes!

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Shooting Beauty Workshop - Look 1, Natural with Bare Shoulders

Model: Candice Peachey

Make up/Hair: Trude Bosence

Photograph by: Kelvin Bennett

The Look: The idea for this first look was to produce a very simple beauty shot, using a strapless top we could get bare shoulders for the show and we had Candice's hair down to cover one shoulder. Trude did a natural makeup look for this shot and we used two lights evenly spaced apart and at equal power to light Candice evenly. We also used a hair light to separate our model from the background and to give her hair some detail. 

Shooting Beauty Workshop - Look 2, Colourful Make up/Big Hair

Model: Candice Peachey

Make up/Hair: Trude Bosence

Photograph by: Kelvin Bennett

The Look: This look was intended for a colour finished image with more focus on the hair and matching eyeshadow and lip colour to the simple styling. As we were shooting beauty I didn't want to detract from our models face by dressing her in anything too flamboyant so I have opted for a muted colour leotard.

Shooting Beauty Workshop - Look 3, Classy Updo.

Model: Candice Peachey

Make up/Hair: Trude Bosence

Photographer: Kelvin Bennett

The Look: We wanted a subtle, classy look so opted for hair up, simple make up with a slight bit of colour and a neutral coloured patterned jacket to add texture and some detail in the bottom half of the frame. We used a clam shell lighting set up to achieve this look and pulled our model away from the white backdrop and did not light the backdrop so it faded into a darker tone.

Shooting Beauty Workshop - Look 4, Gothic Rock 'n' roll.

Model: Candice Peachey

Make up/Hair: Trude Bosence

Photographer: Kelvin Bennett

The Look: We wanted a more Gothic look so opted for a spiky metal necklace, black ruffled dress and dark make up. Trude did the make up and hair to suit. We shot in high contrast black and white to help emphasize the harder look. We used a high key set up to get the contrast between Candice's skin tones and the black of the dress and makeup. 
We experimented with different modifiers to get interesting catch lights to draw the viewers eye into the image.