BEAUTY:How make the Beautiful

 

1. . audience in more. This second photo has embraced a more contemporary and edgy ‘weird’ look. The model has an ‘alien’ look about her and this has been accentuated with the striking makeup look. Akos’ work uses lots of different camera angles to compliment the look he is shooting, for example here there a slight angle pointing down toward the model and the cropping is tight, helping to create that weird look as angles like this distort the features more, and in the first photo a downward angle has been used again to soften the look of the model as she is so strong in the shot. Akos has a strong recognizable style about his work that is mature yet still so youthful. I think the in which he photographs does make his work timeless as he embraces new forms of makeup and art to photograph. Makeup and beauty photography have definitely taken a turn in recent years, with photographers looking for more edgy things to shoot (the idea of beauty is not so much ‘perfection’ anymore, but ‘pretty-ugly’ is considered more chic and fashionable). His body of work reflects both attitudes towards the industry making him diverse and interesting. Looking at my own work, I feel I have worked well with my chosen theme of makeup/beauty photography and been able to explore lots of different aspects of it whilst developing my own style. I have developed a portfolio that can be interrupted in different ways depending upon the viewer and executed them in a way that displays my maturing style and has helped to give my portfolio an edge to it that is my own. I think I have created a nice balance in my work between the classic idea of makeup and beauty photography and incorporating a more modern edge, embracing ‘weird’, ‘ugly’ and ‘alien’ beauty ideas. This idea is something I really wanted to embrace in my project so that viewers can be exposed to the more modern side of the beauty industry and how when incorporated with photography can make for a more visually interesting shot as opposed to one where the audience just see the stereotypical idea of beauty. I also think that by doing there can be more a message in the photo for the audience to analyze and interpret for themselves. I feel I have really progressed in this project and this is evident in the finer details of my work such as the cropping and the composition of the photo, the pose/expression of the model and the angle of the camera. Having such an interest in makeup as well as photography I think my creativity has really thrived in this project and I have also exposed myself to the makeup roles within the photography industry too (as I do all the makeup myself for shoots, I found myself thinking through more carefully every detail of the photo to ensure it was the best that could possibly be). I wanted to create more than just photos, but modern art, that visually interested an audience and exhibited something unique and distinctive to the artist. I remained engaged throughout the whole project and writing it myself has