Zenith

For the second semester of our senior year we dedicated several months to creating our Zenith project. For my Zenith Project I chose to work with my fellow classmate Brianna Sauter. We decided to touch on our knowledge of color theory, portrait photography, and expanded our skills in several Adobe applications. Using this knowledge, We decided to create a book about the different ways to do makeup in order to enhance your features, not hide your beauty. This particular project is a passion for us because we both believe in inclusivity and want to campaign that brands should not just market to one type of person, and instead include all skin tones and types. With the the use of six volunteers, we created looks that would best compliment their eye color and skin tone using the color wheel. Our infographic is meant to be a useful tool in order to teach people how we created these looks in order to help them produce their own. We hope you enjoy this book and hopefully learn something from it!

This Zenith project was a new challenge for both of us because we will both had to work to improve our photography skills since neither of us had much experience, especially when it came to portrait photography. One challenge we had was finding a way to make our book pop, and catch peoples attention. One thing that was difficult was finding a way to do makeup and still show that people don’t need it to be beautiful and that everyone is naturally beautiful in their own way.

Here is our final Zenith Project: click image to view
WHAT HAVE WE BEEN UP TO?
Over the last couple of weeks, Jackie and I have been doing both natural daytime makeup looks and bolder nighttime looks on our models. After doing their makeup, we took some photos of them against a background that we set up. We then used adobe photoshop to adjust the lighting and use the sharpen tool to enhance their features.
Ashleigh, our first model, poses for the camera.
This is one of our natural looks that was meant to bring out Ashley’s blue eyes.
Our model, Emma, smiles for the camera.
We used tones of gold and bronze in order to make Emma’s brown eyes stand out.
Behind the scenes- editing ashleigh’s photo
Applying the Gaussian Blur to Emma’s photo
After taking every models photo and editing it, we created an infographic. Each eye color has certain shades that make them stand out, so we used the color wheel to find them. We created “palettes” for every eye color so readers can use it as a guide for how to do their makeup if they want to highlight their eyes.
We used the color wheel as the inside of an eye on our first page of the infographic.

 

The second page of the infographic has “palettes” that readers can use as guides.