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Blog Post by Tony Bramley from Storm Photography
One of Essex’s leading vocalists came into the studio recently for a Hollywood themed
shoot and makeover for her new website. Allison Jennings approached us here at Storm requesting some
stunning new portrait shots for her website and we were only too pleased to
help. We called on local hair and beauty
stylists Tina Crossley from Beautiful Hair 4 Weddings and Emma Brooks form Emma Brooks Make-Up
to transform Allison into a classic Hollywood Starlet for the day. With
interests in Jazz and vintage music as well as current popular songs we knew
this style would suit Allsion to a tee, and really represent her personality!
Allison has always admired the
stars of the 1940’s and 50’s such as Veronica Lake, Jane Russell and Grace
Kelly and so Tina drew inspiration from these classic movie icons to create a
stunning new hair style for the singer. Tina started the makeover by adding
some gorgeous blond hair extensions to Allison’s hair to give her hair extra
inches creating added glamour and body. She followed this by curling the hair
with big heated rollers to create bounce and lift. Finally, Tina created a wave
across the front to finish the starlet look. Tina mentioned to us that this
style is gaining popularity for brides and she see this as key trend for
wedding day hair for 2014.
Next it was Emma’s turn to wave
her magical make up wand with a look that would even make modern starlet
Scarlett Johansson a little jealous. Emma started by giving Allison a Matt skin with soft contouring
using Airbase to accentuate Allison’s
naturally lovely features. Next matt colours were added to her eyes with
flicked out eye liner wings to create a dramatic eye. A flutter of flirty
eyelashes were added to finish the eyes. The final touch was a lashing of rich
plum lipstick which nailed the movie star look.
Next it
was time to do the shoot. For this I knew my Fuji camera would come into its
element; so much so that I am using it for a current project I am working on
for Hollywood lighting shoots. Most portraits seen these days are white
backgrounds and lots of flooded-front-lighting used, which makes the results
very flat but work fine for junior photographers who do not fully understand
lighting and want an easy fast shooting session. For this and other
shoots, Hollywood lighting is all about crafting the light to the subject to
produce creative shadow detail, which is
softened and shot in black and white to get that rich Hollywood glamour feel to
the images and subject. This made the shoot slighty longer in duration but it
was a creative process that produced beautiful images that although not modern
are timeless. It will really suit the upcoming new look and feel of Allison’s
website and marketing literature.
In 2014,
we will be offering this as a Contemporary Classic package which is fine art
portraiture for those wanting a more refined portrait to treasure forever.
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