Lips: collaboration with CharmedCharlee

On set photograph: Charlee applying the
Panda Lips to model Emma

Once again for my assignment work, this time I decided to focus on lips and beauty photography inspired by the photographer Jamie Nelson. For this shoot I collaborated with beauty blogger CharmedCharlee to show and created interesting lip designs. Working with Charlee was great and I'm really happy with the results we achieved.


In terms of the studio I used a cross lighting technique but with the front light (position on the right side of the camera) having a higher power level and acting as my key light. I also used a gold coloured reflector under the models face to prevent any hard light and the make the light have a warm tone on their face. However, the one thing I believe I could of changed was my choice of background. I decided to use a grey background for the photos however upon reflection I think that a choice of either a white or black background would have been more effective, additionally I think it would of made my work in post-editing better and easier for myself.  Once again I decided to use the macro lens as I was focusing on such a small part of the face I wanted as much detail as possible.


Once again I did a lot of editing in Photoshop using a lot of cloning, filters and brushing. I think the designs are super cute and I had a lot of fun creating some of the designs and working with Charlee!

You can see the final results once again on my Flickr in greater detail as well as on Charlee's blog.