What are the characteristics of photographic makeup?

Photography and makeup are creative and have a large room for change. Before makeup modeling, makeup artists must create distinctive and effective pictures according to different photography themes.

It requires communication and cooperation among makeup artists, photographers and subjects. An excellent photo often includes the successful operation of many factors, among which shooting background, lighting, framing, body language and so on are of course the basic factors. But if you can add a moderate makeup, it will make the finishing touch and leave a deep impression on the photos.

There are many kinds of photography and makeup. According to the different films, photographic makeup can basically be divided into black and white photographic makeup and color photographic makeup.

Black and white photographic makeup is the earliest photographic makeup, which originated from the silent film in Chaplin's era. Photography has developed from black and white to color. Black-and-white photography, which is still used in photography, makes black-and-white photography and makeup still a compulsory subject for makeup artists. In the makeup artist, it is also diversified due to the progress of hardware and the diversity of needs.

Characteristics of black-and-white photography makeup

Black-and-white photography makeup emphasizes the three-dimensional sense of facial skeleton structure, accurate skin feeling and clear sense of facial features outline, and the color contrast used is strong.

The line drawing should be soft and natural, the makeup can be slightly exaggerated, and the characters should conform to the personality characteristics and the theme of photography. The image left by black and white photography is not easy to affect the expressive force of the whole photo because of the change of color.