Ideas for my shoot:
Experimenting with my theme
Experimenting with models
Experimenting with outdoor/nature lighting
Experimenting with black and white
Location:
At home
Artist model:
No artist model for this shoot just investigating my theme
Contact Sheet
Best Images
Theme exploration
Experimenting with editing
Evaluation
What Worked?
Experimenting with my theme and coming up with ideas to shoot show photo in this shoot will give me more ideas on things to shoot in the future and give me a better idea of my theme and also in this shoot I was able to see what wasn't going to work with my theme or things that could work but need to improve
What didn't, how could this be improved?
The lighting wasn't the best in this shoot there are some glerry photos as well as photos that are a bit to dark to understand what is really going on. Also the use of models did not work too well I repeated a lot of images as I made the mistake of trying to use an artist model-based ideas without a specific artist model instead of just shooting random things for my theme and I think that is why I don't have a lot of images in this shoot as should have more than 59 images but will be able to improve that in my next shoot. I could improve my mistakes by looking at the lighting of the day and changing the setting on the camera to match the weather and time of day,I can think of more ideas and relate them a little more to an artist model next time which will be able to steer this theme and with using models I need to stop repeating same photo over and over again which is something that will improve for the next shoot.
What are you going to do next time to extend your idea?
I think in the next shoot I need to go to a new location with at least one model and just get them to look in the distances and I need to investigate the location and get the photo looking through trees and base the rest shoot on artist model to give me a better and more extending my theme to make my idea come to life.
Shoot 2 - 29/04/24 - 127 images
Artist model for Shoot 2 - Abelardo Morell
Key features:
Black and white
Shadows/Reflections
Ideas for my shoot:
Experimenting with Black and white
Experimenting more with my model
Experimenting with camera angles
Experimenting in a Forest
Experimenting with editing
Location:
Taitua Arboretum
How I am going to use this artist model in my work
I will use this artist's model in my work in a way that I use Black and white as well as my model being followed and scared by someone that is following them with my model going to different locations to try and get away from the person following her and being stuck and lost that is the inspiration that I get from this artist model that I will put into my shoot.
Brady looking at his shadow, 1991
Lisa, County Clare, Ireland, 1978
Baby Sitting, 1989
First Communion, Galicia, Spain 1970
Contact Sheet
Best Images
With these 2 images the changes made were making the image darker and a little more green to fit with my theme more.
With these two images the changes that were made were making the colours more orange and dark
Evaluation
What Worked?
Experimenting more with my theme I ended up changing my theme at this point, instead of dreams that turn into nightmares I changed it to lost in a forest because I was shooting a lot more in the forest than the dream side of my theme so I changed it to make it less confusing. What worked in this shoot was the editing made the photos come to life a little more and the location made it more clear that we were in a forest. The camera angles worked as well and I experimented in black and white but didn't do my whole shoot in black and this as my artist modal does do mainly black and white but sometime does things in colour so left some in colour but edit them aswell.
What didn't, how could this be improved?
Some of my editing came out a little to dark and a little hard to read and understand.I did repeat a lot photograph from shoot 1 and make the better in a different location I did do new ideas but Shoot 1 and Shoot 2 are very similar in the idea that I am shooting.
What are you going to do next time to extend your idea?
Need to not make my editing so dark and hard to read,I need to think of new ways to show my theme as Shoot 1 and Shoot 2 are very similar and have very similar photos in each of them.Just finding new way to explore my theme and Show why my model is being follow instead of just show she is being followed.
Shoot 3 - 7/05/24 - 66 images
Artist model for Shoot 3 - Andre Kertesz
Key features:
Black and white
Still life genre
Shadows
purposeful arrangement
Lines within the shadow, lines within an object and uses lines to draw the view to a composition
Camera angles
My ideas for this shoot:
Experimetnig with placement
Experimetning with black and white
Experimenting with Shadows
Using model 1 glasses to realte to theme
Using leaves to relate to theme
Location:
At home
FORK, PARIS, 1928
SILVER GELATIN PRINT, PRINTED CIRCA 1960
THE DAISY BAR, MONTMARTRE, PARIS, 1930
SILVER GELATIN PRINT, PRINTED CIRCA 1980
FLOWERS FOR ELIZABETH, 1976
SILVER GELATIN PRINT, PRINTED CIRCA 1982
HOMING SHIP, NEW YORK, 1944
SILVER GELATIN PRINT, PRINTED CIRCA 1980
MONDRIAN’S GLASSES AND PIPE, PARIS, FRANCE
1926
SILVER GELATIN PRINT MOUNTED TO CARD, PRINTED 1928
How I am going to use this Artist model in my work
I am going to use this artist model to inspire my shoot because I like there Black and white as well as they have placed objects nicely to fit the frame which is something that I hope to do with the clothes that my models wear as well as using a new idea of reflection to bring something new to my shoot.
Visual Analysis
Contact Sheet
Best images
Evaluation
What Worked?
Experimenting with a new artist model really helped me understand my theme more and what worked in this shoot is that it is in Black and white which is the main focus I would like to shoot in or just a dark pallet. The reflection worked well with this shoot and my idea as well as the placement of the object to relate it back to my theme using my modal 1's white top and model 2's black hoodie from shoot 2 to go more into depth into what the models were wearing.
What didn't, how could this be improved?
What didn't work was that I did repeat the same image and idea over and over again with only really the next idea being the reflection and didn't do to many photos with that.As well as need to refine my idea more and make it make more sense of what really my idea is showing so need to be more clear and hopefully with my next shoot I can do that with filling in what I haven't done already.
What are you going to do next time to extend your idea?
Next time I will use silmar objects but using a different artist model to help make it more creative and using a different background t make it make a little bit more sense than just a plain white or black background.I will place my objects more strictly than what I did to fix it the artist model.
Shoot 4A - 15/05/24 - 45 images
Artist model for Shoot 4 - Jerry Takigawa
Key features:
Still life Genre
Formal composition
Contrast black and white background and colorful objects
Blurred background
My ideas for this shoot
Experimenting with direction
Experimenting with blurred images
Experimenting with position of the objects/layout
Experimenting with contrast
Experimenting with a black and white background
Location
At home
How I am going to use this Artist model in my work
I am going to use this artist's model to inspire my shoot because I really like their work with a blurred background with objects and photos over top of the image I think it will bring a unique idea to my work I will mainly be overlaying leaf and images that I have previously taken to bring my idea to life and take inspiration from this artist model.
Reason to serve
Traces of Misconduct
Citizen's Indefinite leave,2017
Background 1
Background 2
Background 3
Background 4 and in colour
Evaluation
What Worked?
What Worked well in this shoot was that my background were goo back grounds to use to understand my theme where as the object that was placed on top of the background weren't.
What didn't, how could this be improved?
What I need to improve is to thing more about my theme I am repeating the same things over and over again which I need to think more outside the box and less simple images.With this shoot there are some good ideas but they just aren't photographed correctly and my object on top are very similar if not the same as shoot 3.
What are you going to do next time to extend your idea?
Need to find an artist mode that can give me new ideas to shoot but also going back to the location of shoot 3 and photographing more on the path ways to show my model to make the following idea make sense to make it look more like she is walking through the forest.
Artist model for Shoot 4 - Jerry Takigawa
Key features:
Still life Genre
Formal composition
Contrast black and white background and colorful objects
Blurred background
My ideas for this shoot
Experimenting with direction
Experimenting with blurred images
Experimenting with the position of the objects/layout
Experimenting with contrast
Experimenting with a black and white background
Location
At home
Reason to serve
Traces of Misconduct
Citizen's Indefinite leave,2017
Background 1 In B & W and colour - different and with a hole in the map
Background 2 -different
Background 4 -same
Evaluation
What Worked?
What worked with thos reshoot of shoot 4 I was able to being a few more ideas in of the main model being followed by someone and that they lost with the use of maps throughout this shoot and I was able to connect the hole in the map more with the model as I like that image a lot and was able to make it make more sense in the context.
What didn't, how could this be improved?
What I need to improve on is that fact even with a reshoot I still stuck with the same idea I just added to it I didreally adventure out more to make something new with this artist model it kinda looks like they could be the same shoot didn't extent my idea more and that is something that I need to so in my next shoot
What are you going to do next time to extend your idea?
Need to find an artist model that can give me new ideas to shoot but also going back to the location of shoot 3 and photograph more on a new idea with mirrors that I think can help with the reflection side of my idea and it brings and new idea in that I think will work in my board