Wednesday, 18 December 2013
PH1300 - Introduction to Photography Practice: Part 7 Fashion.
For this project we had to take a look into fashion photography and then work with several models and make up artists to create four to five shots. The shots would have to show the make up artists skill, the models ability to portray emotions and take direction, and finally the photographers ability to take the shot, set up lighting and give direction.
I found this project to be enjoyable but not to my best skill, as I find giving models direction and working with people in general difficult, I think it's my poor people skills in a professional environment. However I was able to create the images needed to finish my work and they turned out great, if I were to do this again, I would spend a little more time with the model before taking the shots, just so they would feel more comfortable in front of a camera, I find that they relax their face more and don't force poses and faces to what you expect.
This first one was taken in the dark room where I normally develop my film rolls, the model was wearing black clothing and had an Egyptian theme to her make up, it complimented her skin tone and face structure. The lighting I used was tungsten and I found them to work perfectly, I was able to take full advantage of the light matching her skin tone. For direction I went for a style of Egyptian queen or goddess, with a slightly darkened area on her face and looking down at the camera. Only thing I would change about this would be put more focus on the headpiece, bring out more of the gold on it.
This one was quite interested as I had a few different shots of the model in different lighting and back grounds, at first using a white background with soft box lighting. didn't like how it turned out, next I tried a black background and very low lighting from a soft box, this I found brought out the colour in her face and made it a main feature, while the lighting brought out the extra details that where painted on. I liked this one mainly because of the lines and details in her face, they show the make up artist's skill, the other things i like are the lighting on her face I really enjoy how soft it all was in correlation to her skin, i like how the colours came out you can still notice them despite them being in the dark. I think if I where to retake this one I would focus more on the colours by saturating them more than I have, I would also use different lighting, i would have liked to experiment with tungsten lighting more with this one, to give a more dynamic shadow.
Out of all the shots I took, this would be my favourite out of them all, what I really like about this one is the elegance it captures in her, she has a dignified face in this which compliments the lighting and backdrops as it is soft and controlled, rather than overly bold and in your face. I used minor amounts of photoshop pin this one only to adjust the dress on her chest and some minor blemishes on her arm and face, besides that nothing more than lighting fixes and enhancing shadows and highlights. I think improvements for this one would come in the form of showing better detail and different lighting but there is not much else i would change. I intend to use this in my portfolio to show my ability to show lighting and portrait.
This final one was done rather quickly, the model was busy and I had other work to deal with as well. HOWEVER! This one turned out excellent and more than I expected it to, the theme of her make up was based on an ice queen, so that told me to use soft lighting to give a pale complexion. Once I got it into lightroom, I give it a blue tint to it so it appears like ice more, I also found that the mask and other decorations on her head began to glow slightly which I really never expected to happen, but I was happy with it! I would not change anything about this one, perhaps minor changes to the make up, but that is not my field to be picky about.
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