THE BLUE DRESS AND THE RING

A group of students from the Royal College of Art pose for photographs wearing Kate Middleton style engagement outfits they made themselves and engagement rings outside Buckingham Palace in London, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011. The group carried out the stunt for fun ahead of the wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton in 100 days time on April 29, 2011
Jennifer Rusack 

http://www.thedailykate.org/?p=305

This is a link to the blog dedicated to life and style of kate middleton. some of the post are about the make up.
unfortunatly it states that kate regularly does her make up her self.
jennifer rusack

Harpers Bazaar

The following article was published in Harpers Bazaar, December 13, 2010.

"The first official portraits of Prince William and Kate Middleton were released over the weekend. Photographed by the famed Mario Testino at St. James's Palace last month, the happy couple cuddled for the camera (left) and posed for a more formal portrait (right). "I am very happy to have been asked to cover this historic moment that the whole world was waiting for," Mario Testino said. "They are in their prime and brimming with happiness. I have never felt so much joy as when I see them together." For the historical moment, Kate opted for bridal white — a blouse by Whistles for the casual picture and for the formal one a draped-collar dress by British fashion chain Reiss and white topaz earrings by Links of London — letting her stunning sapphire engagement ring do all the talking. The down-to-earth bride also did her own makeup for the shoot — her gorgeous tresses were handled by her hair stylist, James Pryce. As can be expected, Reiss plans to reissue the now-iconic "Nanette" dress in stores this January. As for the Prince, his v-neck is by Bruno Cucinelli (reportedly lent to him by Testino himself) and his suit is by British label Turnball and Asser."


Charlotte Woodend

Photo Direction

This youtube clip is a bbc interview talking to the couple about there engagement and the meaning of what their engagement photos will show for the future.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjaOdTJbpGc

From the clip I found that the photographer for the engagement photos were taken by Ian Lloyd. 

 Ian Lloyd is an Australian photographer who was born in Canada in 1953 and studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and Brooks Institute of Photography in the United States before coming to Australia in 1975. He worked in television and as a photographer for guide books before establishing his own photography and publishing company in Singapore in 1983.

So I looked into some of his previous work. But from looking at the photos hid did for the engagement and his past work it helped to think of the direction we wanted to take the photo shoot in.

 

Ian Lloyd

 Ian Lloyd's previous photography

 

 I then looked into past engagment photos that was out their, to try and compare it to the royal engagment.

 

Compareing the images really helped to gather a greater understanding of how we wonted our images to look like, but just to be sure I then looked into past photos taken of kate to see what looks and poses works with. 

 

     Opal xx

Props

Images taken on the shoot ; some of the props 

The CROWN 

Cup and saucer , Kate's ring 

Filled with sweets  

Royal themed props 

keeping it simple 

Megan Mandeville 
Charlotte oloughin




more PROPS ;

The Blue Hat

Inspriational aspects

Glass Bottol

Royal Props


Megan

Lord Lichfield, Royal Photographer.

Lord Lichfield was educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, and joined the Grenadier Guards in 1959. On leaving the Army in 1962, he began to work as a photographer's assistant, and built up his own reputation, partly as a result of having access to the Royal Family. He was selected to take the official photographs of the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1981, and subsequently became one of the UK's best-known photographers. From 1999 onwards he was a pioneer of digital photography at a professional standard. He was chosen by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh to take official pictures of her Golden Jubilee in 2002. He resided at the former family seat at Shugborough Hall, near Cannock Chase in Staffordshire although in 1960 he had gifted the estate to the National Trust in lieu of death duties arising on his grandfather's death. Nearby is Milford Hall, the estate of the Levett-Haszard family, who are related to the Ansons and who sit on the board of Shugborough.

Chloé Grayling.

Sweetie jewellery..

A few images showing the sweet jewellery used in some of our images..


Jellybeans..


Love hearts..


Hard candy..

Rachel