Tuesday, 8 September 2015

Photographer 1 - Jamie Nelson

Photographer 1 - Jamie Nelson:

Jamie Nelson was born in a small town in Texas and raised in Colorado. At the age of 17 she discovered her passion for photography and moved to California to attend the Brooks institute of photography. Once she finished college she moved to New York to become a fashion and beauty photographer.  Her work has been featured in many different magazines such as Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Vanity fair and she has photographed advertisements for companies like Maybelline, Benefit and Urban Decay. 

I have chosen her work because of the way that she chooses to style her photos. I find her commercial and abstract photography to be interesting  and eye catching. i have found that by looking at this photographer i have found myself getting so much more intrigued with my project and inspired with my project.

She is an influence to me as i am going to use makeup as  a big part of my project. By looking at her photos i have got many different ideas to move my project along and to help it develop. I think that her photography will play a big influence to my project as the way she has photographed different aspects of makeup and full face makeup is something that i would like to achieve. 

These two images above and below the idea of the photograph is to show the colour of the lips. in the image above the photograph is used to advertise the product by Maybelline. The image below is more just focused on the lip its self. Both of these are a gold way at showing style of lip colour because it is something that people ca change and adapt so easily to change their look slightly. People choose their lip colour via personal preference and it an give people more personality and confidence. 





In this image the whole face of makeup can be seen, the focus is on the eyes. The rest of the face has been left natural but is still prominent for the photo. The eyes in the photograph are eye-catching and standout but do not completely contrast with the rest of the face. This is another example of how people can make certain parts of their face standout more than others to make them follow a certain trend or to look a certain way. 



This photo is an example of Nelsons more abstract work. In the image they have used more heavy and dramatic makeup and hair. This evidences how how makeup can be used differently. This idea of makeup makes stage makeup and drag makeup come to mind because of how heaving it is. Abstract makeup is another angle to take my project if i wanted to. 

1 comment:

  1. Conclude your posts on photographers with a summary section identifying what you have learnt from their work and the elements of a photographers work that you would like to explore within your personal investigation. You should also try to work out the techniques/processes involved in shooting this style of beauty photography. consider, lighting, lens type. soft/hard light lighting equipment… please do not delete this post. How might you reproduce a shot like this in the studio. (AO1, AO2, AO3)

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