As a Yorkshire Wedding Photographer, I recently had the opportunity to team up with Amy from Fons Vitae Beauty based in North Ferriby. We had met through a mutual wedding client and we discovered we had a lot in common when it comes to the ‘look’ and ‘feel’ of our work even though we are in very different disciplines. We started to talk about doing some work together as Amy was looking for a way to present her portfolio in a very specific way. I’ll let Amy tell the rest of the story at this point, her Fons Vitae website really needs a visit to see how good she is!
I am a freelance Make-up Artist specialising in Bridal Make-up based in the East Riding of Yorkshire. I needed a new portfolio for my 2012 collection and, after having worked with Andy on a wedding earlier in the year and seeing some of his other work, I knew he would be able to capture everything I wanted perfectly!
Andy is the consummate professional, who really knows his craft. Luckily for me after the initial discussion about joining forces we both discovered our vision was the same, both of us agreed that we wanted the looks to be clean and contemporary and above everything else, something that brides could look at and instantly imagine the look for themselves on their big day!
We arranged a photo shoot and planned to get all the looks in one session. Andy came to my salon and set up some fabulous lighting to best capture the make-up and immediately put my models at ease!
I have to say the shoot itself was a breeze and so much fun! We specifically chose real women – not professional models – to showcase the looks, and I must say the girls were superb and looked amazing; Andy definitely got some stunning shots!
After we selected the final images for the portfolio Andy put together the layout. The photos and the layout show off one strong image of each look with several breakdown images to show the look from different angles… it’s absolutely perfect for viewers to see the finished looks which are quite simply beautiful.
I adore seeing my vision come to life and I cant for you to either!! Please check out my work at www.fonsvitae-beauty.co.uk.
This book project was so good to be involved with, I’m certainly no graphic designer so the process of laying this out was a real challenge, but we got there in the end and we are both really happy with the end result. Here are the finished spreads.
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