Photographer 3 - Courtney Dailey

Courtney Dailey 

Courtney is a beauty photographer based in Los Angeles, she is known for her use of colour and delivers colourful and dramatic photographs. 

This photograph is showing several make-up products all with similar orange and yellow tones. And so the additional sweets added are in a similar colour as to compliment the colours of the products. I like the way she has used different materials in this shoot to make the make-up shoot more fun and interesting. Courtney would have had to use a high key technique as there is minimal shadowing in the photograph, the white background makes the colours of the products and sweets bold and so they stand out.

This photograph is showing several different blusher pans which have all been slightly broken to add texture to the photograph. They are all in different shades which contrasts with one another. The use of crushing the pans has made the photograph appear more informal as they are not all perfectly rounded and smooth. The technique used on this photograph was most likely to have been close up, as the grains of the powders are detected on the pans. 

This photograph shows 7 different different lipsticks which have all been cut and arranged in the order of shades from light to dark. this shows the range of colours clearly and boldly. the technique used would be high key as their is no shadowing and the products are very prominent against the page. 

Similarly to Courtney's lipstick photograph above, the 6 strips of eyelashes have been arranged in order of thickness from thin to thick. This shows the range of thickness' clearly as they are lined up together. Again a high key technique must have been used when shoot this as there is no shadowing and the background is a bright white colour.

Courtney's work has inspired me to work more with high key techniques especially when shooting close up shots of make-up products. I would also like to experiment with using similar coloured products in the shoots that are similar to the colour of the make-up products that are being used.