Cinco De Mayo Work Diary

In this lesson it was my first personal shoot lesson and I really enjoyed it. As I am doing media make up , and in this particular shoot I used face paint, prior to this shoot it was imperative that I practiced the face paint that I was going to do. By doing this it meant that I could do the face paint with much more ease and quicker than if it was the first time I had done it. Last year I made the mistake of doing a shoot with face paint and I didn't practice beforehand, In the end I did the face paint on the model 3 times where I kept messing it up. Therefore, I made sure to practice this time. I decided to do this shoot in the studio with a bright backdrop as cinch de mayo is a festival in mexico and I was repeating the day of the dead holiday make up. I copied another persons version of face paint which I found on the internet, however I left out some parts as I didn't want to over crowd my models face.

This is my favourite edit from this shoot as I think it looks quite dark and fits in with the theme of cinco de mayo. I edited dark eyeliner around her eyes which turned out successful as it brought out the whites of her eyes, it also fits in with the colour scheme of her face. I also like the composition of this photograph as it allows you to see the backdrop and brings a light of positivity to the image. If I could change something about this photograph it would be a physical matter, I would've made her lips darker, or at least have gone over it as her pink lips are peaking through. Although, in a way I like this because it emphasises the fact that it is merely face paint and this follows closely to the holiday. 

I can't quite make up my mind about the edit of this photograph. I like that it it is wavy as to me it represents 2 souls which could be the models and the soul from the mexican army which fell on the 5th of may, coming out through spirit. I changed the hue to make this picture stand out from the others in this collection and I like this as her eyes still stand out amongst the rest and her eyes blend in with the background even though they are separated. However I am not sure if I like the composition as I feel like there is too much background in the picture, even though the model still remains as the focal element. I think if I was to re shoot the exact image I would move her face in the slightest bit more so her jaw is showing a little bit.

By doing this shoot it has made me think of possible shoots which I could complete in the future, for example I could experiment with face paint a bit more and create more characters through the use of face paint, for example, i could create a skeleton or perhaps well known characters such as the joker or two face.