Monday 14 February 2011

Thankfully the sun was shining for the day of my shoot! I took approximately 50 images on the day in a nearby woodland, varying camera settings and shooting from different angles. I thoroughly enjoyed the experience!

I found editing the images on Photoshop very simple, as I merely experimented with the various settings to improve my images.

I chose a to display my images as a series of 6, pegged onto a string 'washing line' to reflect the images. I am extremely pleased with the final outcome and the images are more than i had hoped for, I could easily repeat this technique to promote some of my own garments/ final collections.



I set my own mini-brief, which I enjoyed the freedom of, 'To promote/display a collection of garments through photography, in an innovative way whilst illustrating the nature and fluidity of each garment.'

Imagery that inspired my set mini brief (above.)
Before the shoot, we experimented greatly with the SLR and it's different settings. To guarantee an appearance of movement and a blurred/misted effect within my images I focused on lowering the shutter speed.

Elective- Digital Photography




I was really looking forward to this Elective, as I had never used a proffessional SLR camera before...
The Brief I thought was a short, fun brief and appropraite to the time scale we were given. It consisted of; taking a series of digital images illustrating an idea/concept, to use Photoshop to finalise these images and to display these photos in an appropriate outcome.

I kept a workbook upto date along the way with written technical notes and concept ideas.

Firstly we researched fashion photographers and their styles, ie lighting, model positioning.
I was particualry taken with some images by Glen Luchford (Above.) They are hugely seductive yet feminine and the use of light creates a soft pink mist, a musk you can almost smell...