Fashion Multiple Exposure - Image Bank

After creating an image bank purely on multiple exposure, I decided to look at multiple exposure in my chosen project of beauty. I couldn't find many images on beauty, so I started to look at beauty in the fashion industry and look at how photographers show beauty in the form of multiple exposures. The first image I found was one from the front cover of a magazine in which this technique is used in the two front cover designs. The second design stands out to me more as the photographer has cleverly used the eye of the portrait and have placed it onto the centre of the other females dress. I think this is a very clever image and would definitely stand out on the front cover of the magazine as it shows different dimensions. Instead of just seeing the portrait image, we can see the female in her full form with the use of a long shot. This enables the viewer to see the rest of the dress and her whole body. This is a unique way of using one frame, and placing two images inside it by blending the two together. They have ensure the opacity is perfect so that we can still see the facial features of the female. The other images in this bank use colour and are much darker, by also combining techniques of a motion blur. 

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Multiple Exposure - Image Bank

In this image bank, multiple exposure has been used in two different ways to show a setting and a model where the two images are combined. In the first two images we see two portraits of females facing towards the right of the frame. They both use black and white to contrast from the backgrounds, in which the first is a white background and the second is a much deeper background. The first uses a white background as there is a dark cloud setting and therefore we can establish a clear difference between them both. The second uses a darker background as we can see it is meant to be the sky, this is due to the clear similarity between that and the shadows and the daisies. The use of the daisies also matches to the female approach that this image has, as they are a feminine object. Opposing this is the third image, which features urban buildings as it uses a male model and he is more masculine.

The next three images in this image bank, I chose to look at a different side of multiple exposure. I like these images a lot as I feel like the stunning animals are shown, and inside them they're filled with the habitats that we would expect them to see. This idea is very original, and the artist photographed in forests different animals, and then took pictures of different habitats and landscapes which define the colour of the animal. The first image shows a fox, the fox uses warm orange and red colours which are shown through the conifer forest in the background. 

High Key - Image Bank

In the following images, we see images with extreme high key lighting. High key lighting is a style of lighting for photography that aims to reduce the lighting ratio present in the scene. High key lighting is perfect for the beauty style of photography as it suggests an upbeat mood, but also makes the images feel clean and crisp. As you can see from the images below, the background is completely white, with the face being highlighted through the use of bold colours and makeup. This allows us to draw attention to certain features of the face while also enhances them. For example, in the first image taken in the style of the photographer Rankin, the model is shown to be wearing bold colours on her face, she has a soft blue across her cheekbones which lift the face and make it seem narrower - while also wearing dark black makeup around the eyes which sculpts the face. It stops the image from being too washed out and also shows a defining line between the model and her background. In the next image, we also see makeup used in order to enhance feminine facial features and also to brighten up the image.