Leaf Piece Shoot/Minimal shoot

This was my final planned shoot and I planned on having two models and showing the leaf pieces and butterfly wing pieces. I had booked two models through model mayhem; one of whom was mixed race with a dark complexion. I was excited to have the chance to show the versatility of the pieces and show a darker skin tone in the pieces. Unfortunately neither of the models could make it in the end and only let me know the day before. As I have discussed in a previous shoot post I will allow a budget on projects from now on for models and stylist to lock models down and make sure they don't back out! With three collaborative shoots booked the week after this, I didn't have time to reschedule so decided to do a simple shoot with the leaf pieces I had made so I didn't waste the studio time I had booked. I used my boyfriend as a model and obviously he isn't a professional but it didn't matter too much to me as I had nothing to lose from doing this shoot and wanted to keep it simple and laid back anyway.

My images so far have been targeted towards consumers and regular people, in particular women, wanting to use these pieces for festivals or just for decoration, but I actually think that using a male in this shoot and arranging multiple pieces across the back shows some variety and examples of how make up artists could use these pieces to create unique looks.

I decided to have a quick play with colouring these pieces using Aquacolour as I have not shown this possibility in any of my other shoots. I really love how this turned out and am really glad that I didn't waste the studio time and took the opportunity to have a laid back shoot, which allowed me to be more creative with the pieces.

I do wish that I had connected the camera to a mac though while shooting as I feel that all of the images are coming out much darker than they appeared on screen at the time, but this can be improved in photoshop.

When applying these pieces I didn't use any foundation on them and found that this has given a great result. there is a little shine from the pieces which did shine through the powder with the flashes, but in person these blended seamlessly into the skin.