A Lazy Girl's Guide To Beauty.

As an assignment for my photography subject, I was asked to do an editorial shoot with the topic "A Lazy Girl's Guide To Beauty". Editorial photography is what is published in newspapers and magazines usually to illustrate an article written by staff or a contributing writer. 

When i got this topic, the first question that went through my mind was " how on earth am I going to interpret this? ". So thereafter I Google'd  "A Lazy Girl's Guide To Beauty" hoping to get some sort of inspiration or idea. I found something but, nothing that really caught my eye. I sat and thought to myself, most females don't like the feeling of having facial hair and then asked myself "how do they remove this facial hair" I ended up with answers such as waxing, threading, spa's, salon's etc. I then asked "what would a super lazy girl do if she had facial hair that she wanted to remove? " and ended up with the answer A SHAVER and SHAVING FOAM, and that is how I interpreted this topic.

I used my beautiful friend Melissa as my model as she is one with a crazy personality and a model who worked out well for this shoot. I styled her and did her make-up as well. I basically put the shoot together on my own as I do with most of my assignment shoots.

Visual Communication

I am a BA Visual Communication student and when i tell people this they always ask "what is that ?"

So what is Visual Communication ?

"Visual Communication is communication through visual aid and is described as the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon. Visual communication in part or whole relies on vision, and is primarily presented or expressed with two dimensional images, it includes: signs, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, photography, colour and electronic resources. It also explores the idea that a visual message,accompanying text has a greater power to inform, educate, or persuade a person or audience." 

When i complete this degree I have many career opportunities such as :

• Graphic Artist/Designer
• Photographer in Fine Art, Illustrations, Landscapes and Architectural
• Art Director
• Graphic Artist
• Advertising Designer
• Visual Artist
• Layout Artist
• Photojournalism
• Typography Designer
• Designer and Illustrator in business such as graphic design studios, marketing, branding and advertising
• Designer and illustrator in print media such as newspapers, magazines and publishers
• Photographer in: Commercial Journalism, Documentary, Fashion, Sport

good design is obvious, great design is transparent

Oh So Vintage !

I am back & I am officially a  BA Visual Communication Design student :) yaaaay. One of my assignments was to do a vintage portrait with a 35mm camera. however after doing the shoot with the 35mm camera i took some shots with my digital camera & this is the result. I did the make-up and styling as well :)

Enjoy. I will update my layout soon. 

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