Plans for the shoot –
My plans for the
shoot are to base it around Great Britain (more specifically England) and the
military.
On the day of the
shoot I plan to come in wearing a green army-style jacket, leather leggings and
military boots to reflect a similar outfit which would be worn in the British
army, but is also keeping up to date with current fashion trends.I also have a large Union Jack flag from when I went to the Olympics in the summer, and I have also purchased some Union Jack lip tattoos to wear for the shoot. I will be using the flag in various ways to show how much the army/military means to Great Britain
I plan to use the
studio for this shoot and it will either be mostly or completely self-portrait
work. I may also take some photos on location around the college to use and edit together with my studio work.
What I hope to achieve –
What I hope to
achieve by completing this shoot is something that will symbolise and represent
all things British and more specifically, the British Army.
Also, as I am
personally quite a self-conscious person who doesn’t like there photo being
taken, I hope to produce my shoot in a way that doesn’t show my whole face,
using a variety of techniques. I want to do this to show that everyone, in some
way, can take and feature in great photos – they do not need to be models to
look good in an image. With this shoot I also hope to develop my knowledge of
Adobe Photoshop as this is what I will use to manipulate some of the photos
into the way I actually want them to look.
What I actually achieved -
For my first
Developmental Shoot, I chose to look at the use of colour, pattern and texture,
through basing my shots around the British Army and the Union Jack.
This shoot was made
up of a combination of both studio and location work. Here is one of my
favourite shots from my location shoot. I have chosen to edit the image by
applying text to the image, as it makes it look like something that would be
used in an advertising poster. I am also using these developmental shoots to experiment with all sorts of different effects, such as applying text to the image. With this image also, I really like the contrast in the colours in the flag, but also the contrast againt the darkness in my boots.
This is one of my favourite edited photos from my studio shoot. To create this look, I took two images from my shoot in the studio, one of my eyes and one of the flag, and layered them over eachother in Photoshop. I then changed the opacity of each layer, which allowed both the layers to be visible at the same time. I really like this effect as it gives a mysterious, ghostly mood/tone to the image, which is something I could really develop in further work as I think it looks really effective.
What I am going to do next -
From completing this shoot I have realised that I don't really enjoy doing self-portrait work, as I found it really hard to position the camera correctly - I much prefer to take the pictures myself of someone else, so that I know how well the images come out and having total control of the camera.
For my next few developmental shoots, I want to completely change the theme to give me a chance to experiment.
One of my ideas is to do a complete location shoot, themed around animals and fashion. I would like to go into the woods and photograph people in a way to make them represent animals. By getting my model(s) to dress in a certain way and using natural resources around me, I could get them to look like deer, squirrels or birds, which I think will look really effective in the natural lighting.
My other main idea is to do another studio shoot but using a model instead of myself this time to allow me complete control over the photo quality. After being inspired by some research and a specific music video, I want to dress someone up as a fairy/angel, and explore the use of colour, the human body and different emotions.
I will post more information about the research and inspiration for these possible developmental shoots in separate blog posts nearer the time.
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