Maleficent PhotoShoot

Straight after I finish my jewellery photo shoot with Holly I will have to start straight away on my maleficent one. Unfortunately this could leave my slightly short for time as I am trying to squeeze two photoshoots in to one studio slow. I'm planning on this photo shoot being quite dark and eary as if is for advertising Halloween make-up. In the studio I will use the beauty dish and then from one to three soft boxes. Here are my contact sheets... 

Overall I was quite disappointed with the end result of this photo shoot. I had higher expectations, but due to not paying enough attention to the time I unfortunately ran out of time in the studio, and had to end short. 

I do feel that I got a couple of good shots in here though, out of all the pictures that I took these are my favorite... 

I feel that these are my strongest images from the photo shoot. These have the strongest stances, the locked eye contact and the most villain-ish glare. My favourite image out of these three is the first one. I really like the lighting in this picture, how there are enough shadows to make her look 'dark' and 'evil' but not leaving you unable to see her. I also like the third image, as this has a similar pose and stance just at a different angle. This image is quite a lot lighter than the first one though. As for the second image, I'm really pleased with the models facial expressions. I think that she has mastered looking evil in this image, but unfortunately a large amount of shadow is to the right of her in the image, in the shape of a box, and I'm not really keen on that. 

Out of the three images I decided to use the first one as my final. I felt that out of the three images this one had the most potential to work with. 

Before I started editing I had a last minute look into what kind of layout I was going to use for my poster. Heres what I found... 

2014 Maleficent Poster

Maleficent in the 1959 Sleeping Beauty

 I noticed that in a few of the new posters and even in the original 1959 sleeping beauty green flames where used when Maleficent was present. So I thought for my final poster I could use a green flamed background. This would then add texture and colour compared to a standard studio background. I then went online and eventually found this picture that I thought would work well as a background...

I got this picture to use as my background offline,
http://www.iwallhd.com/wallpaper/1600x900/lime-green-fire-abstract-desktop.html 

This was not the only import picture that I was going to need as I am advertising the Maleficent Mac make-up range, I also needed pictures of the products to use on the poster. These where what I found online... 

When I used this image I cropped it in half, as I was only using this for the lipstick. 

In the end I decided not to add the fake lashes n to the picture, as my model wasn't wearing any false lashes.  I thought it would seem wrong to advertise something that couldn't be seen on the image. 

I then also needed a picture of the MAC logo to add on to the poster so that it clearly advertises  MAC make-up. 

Now that I had chosen witch of my favourite images I was going to use and I had my background, logo and products ready all that is left to do is edit them all together. 

Original 

 To start with I just edited her skin and complexion, removing spots, making her skin smoother excreta. I then started to edit her make-up, by making her lipstick brighter, eyebrows darker and more pointed, eyes darker and also added more shadows on her face, as well as neatening out the triangle on her forehead. I also edited out the scarf down her back that we where using to over up her hair. Now that I was pleased with the way my model looked, I next needed to turn this image in to a poster. 

To create this poster I then added in my background and blurred around the edge of my model so that she merged into the background. I then also added in each of the make-up products, and placed them in an order that I thought looked neat and presentable. I then also added in the MAC logo at the bottom of the page to clearly show that they are MAC products, and then finally decided to add a maleficent title to the poster too.