Professional Practice photo shoot

Below is a powerpoint presentation slide show of research, ideas and inspiration that i'm sending out to models, make up artists and hair designers. Producing this slide show gives me a better and much clearer understanding of what type of shoot i am going to do. 

This also gives a better understanding of what i am after in terms of lighting, locations, outfits, make up, hair and even the style or theme i am after. It also shows the model or hair stylist what i'm thinking of doing and what it is thats on my mind. Doing this will give them more ideas and maybe help me come up with some sort of strategy or plan.  

Below are slides of the presentation. 

1st slide

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2nd slide

Screen shot from google maps. this is a location which is about 20mins away from my house.

I have visited this location about four times now and it can be scary at times. As its a screenshot from powerpoint and also a screenshot from google maps its not really blown up and is difficult to see but the building on the left is not like this now. It looks really old and is abandoned. The windows are all boarded up and does look rather creepy at night. 

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3rd slide

Another screen shot from google maps but this time from a different angle. Am trying to give the model or the people that will be working with me, more of a general view of the area and what the location will look like. I always feel its really good to do this as it shows you are interested and motivated to do well. Doing this also gets you talking to the model or who it is your collaborating with as then on the day you both are not feeling uncomfortable. Another screen shot. The hole building is joint together and the location we will be shooting in is at the other end, to the right. Again it doesn’t look like this now. 

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4th Slide 

yet another screenshot from google maps at another angle of the location am going to be shooting my professional practice. Again this looks like its a new building  but its not. 

To get inside we climb through a window which is located at the other end of this building. 

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5th slide

This photograph on this slide i found on google images when searching abandoned places with models.

What i like about this is not the location but the lighting, make up, hair and out fits. The pointy shoes the model on the left is wearing are amazing and i really wanted them for my shoot. I didn't know how i could get them or what the shoes where called but i done some research and asked around and found out that they're called ballet boots/ballet heels. They are very expensive and prices range for £90 to £120 pounds. 

http://www.alternative-footwear.co.uk/shoes/extreme-ballet-heel-shoes.html

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6th slide

After producing this slide show i sent this presentation out to the people that are interested in working with me. The model looked at this presentation and come up with an idea or concept about having news paper as a outfit. I then started to think more on this idea and then found this photograph. 

I do feel this type of outfit would fit my idea really well.   

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7th Slide

The make up for my shoot is very important and this shoot needs to be the best as its for the professional practice assignment. In my case i am going to look for make up that stands out and is powerful. 

As i want this shoot to be low key but also have a lot of detail, sharpness and good compression then the make up needs to be good. Am thinking of this but maybe more dramatic. Maybe in black as I think it would be more moody and eye catching!  

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8th slide

The movement, positioning and poses need to be different to any photo shoot i have done before. This shoot needs to be different and also challenging. With this idea in mind i would like a lot of blur and motion to my photographs. using long shutter speeds with increase my motion and i will start to get movement within my photograph. The positioning needs to be very controlled but also surreal.  

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9th slide

lighting and outfits

The photographs on this slide show are photographs from a photographer called Andrew Farrington. 

Not only is Andrew Farrington one of my favourite photographs but his work motivates me when its needed.  I look at his work and i find the lighting and composition amazing and for this assignment i am going to look at his work and start to think about how i can change and experiment with lighting. Andrew Farrington also has a way with the style of his work and i feel one of his strong points is the location and the out fits.

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10th slide

Long shutter speed to get motion and blur.

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11th slide.

The photo shoot I have in mind I am trying to translate that emotion like every time im on a shoot. To create a sense of control and shape. I am not to concerned about the lighting with this shoot as I am aiming to have a feel and look of journalistic photography so not necessarily black and white but focusing more on the tones, shapes places and natural light. As a feel my photography has a feeling of communication, passion and weirdness to it I want to do this again and make my work stand out and look fashionable. For my individual studies I focused on journalism in terms of street photography, war corespondency and how the what effects does the photographer get when working in that environment, Also how do they get paid and how hard is it has a career. I was really interested and intrigued with how photo journalists worked in such away. Working in the studio at university has opened a range of skills to my photography as I was unsure about lighting and how light can effect a photograph quite rapidly. As I journalistic point of view photographers don't really worry about the light as they are capturing the surroundings and the subject of what is going on around them to display a story if you like. I think as I am interested in the outdoors and journalism to me is something photographs ether have it or they don't. I am more so now in to fashion and because of this my work has come on dramatically over the two years spent on my course.

So for my individual practice I am going to produce a set of images that involve the surroundings using natural light and a reflector if necessary. I am going to create photographs of fashion but with elements of what a feel is journalistic. I come up with the idea of photographing a ballerina in different dance forms in terms of controlling the models positions with the environment.I will be interested and looking for the light, shape, form and beauty. I have lots of locations in mind for this shoot and I know it's going to be a long day and the model, hair stylist and make up people are going to hate me when I have finished but I am positive that my work will show for its self.

I didn't think this idea has been one before and I was really looking forward to shooting but when researching and looking in to the fashion and journalistic styles I come across my idea and I was disappointed as I really did feel it was going to be something personal and good for my.

Below is some research i found:

I am having trouble when attaching photographs to this post so i will try again another time.

Words of wisdom i found from Andrew Farrington

I seen this when browsing facebook and it was on Andrew Farrington's quotes.

I don't know why i am blogging this but feel this quote is perfect because am going though some problems at the minute..

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

Ghetto Blaster

Boom boxes or Ghetto Blasters were commercially introduced in the late 1970s and was really popular around 1975 to late 1980s and doing this research about the 70's I found this time really interesting and have been inspired with this look and time. It's really made me think about doing a shoot like this for the fashion and for my mail theme I was thinking of doing 70's pop music and how fashion was with the Ghetto Blaster out as it was such a big thing in the day and I could get a really good photo shoot and have a great location in mind. 


I found some photographs when searching Ghetto Blaster in google

Some of the photographs are for this link...

http://blog.reedandsimon.com/2009/11/11/boombox-aka-ghettoblaster/

The Ghetto Blaster basically a large, portable, radio cassette player and was about 1.5 m wide and 1.0 m high. I really want do do a shoot with all this in mind as I think it would be a great opportunity for me and feel I could get some great photographs out of this.

Work based learning Dark-room poster

I was asked to create and come up with an idea or some sort of notice for the door before you enter the dark room as people are sometimes unaware of people processing film and could end up working in on someone wile the negatives or ilford paper it out and could result in the paper or negatives to be exposed at you don't want that to happen so to prevent this i come up with a poster for the door and this is what i come up with:

This is the picture I taken on my phone and I placed this in to photoshop and made a new canvas.

This is the first one I made and I thought a tight crop was good as it fitted the slide on the door but when I emailed kevin he told me to change the size to a4 but as it doesn't look right as its attached to my blog.

Work based learning screen calibration

On the 09/03 first thing I was asked to calibrate and sync the computers to get better colour tones. The software used was called Spyder3pro and the settings must be at .............................................once you have the software up and running and you have put the correct settings in and the settings are saves you then connect the spyder to the screen by jus simply placing it over the top which has a weight to balance the spyder to the monitor  after this I cleaned all the screens and made sure the lights where turned of and blinds lowered as I was told my Kevin that light and even touching the screen can interfere when the Spyder is calibrating.

 This picture above is just an example of how the spyder sits on the screen and you can see how this is calibrating the monitor.

70's fashion clothing

I have started to look at 70's clothing as I really like the 70's music and would love to focus more on the clothing and make arraignments for a photo shoot. I could look at 70's clothing all day as i love the style and colours. I want to do lots of shoots as i really want to get a good mark and try hard with this assignment. 


1960s rhinestone and beaded sheer top. Sold on Posh Girl Vintage. I want this!

1970s studded denim jacket.

1970s embroidered Halter top. 

1960s faux-fur Leopard print jacket. Sold on Spanish Vintage Moss I want this too!

1970s Emilio Pucci box purse

Work based learning lighting

On one wednesday morning I was asked to put lighting away and to check if all the lighting heads worked correctly. If not then I would have to tell kevin, The lights that did work then I was to see if the lamp bulbs worked and if not then to replace them.

I was given a pack of bulbs and each bulb cost £10 pound and I was shocked by the price of them. After going through all the lighting the uni had only one lighting didn't work so that was past on to kev and then he sends it of to get repaired.

This picture above was taken by my iphone and its of the packaging of the bulbs used for the bowens lighting. What I was doing is using a power cable I made sure the Bowens head light was turned of and then once the power was connected then I would turn the lighting head on and turn the switch to lamp and if it turned on then it was working and I wouldn't  need to replace it with a new bulb.

This picture above shows the packet of bulbs kev provided me and also a diagram showing the bowens lighting and how to set and mount the bulbs. This diagram is good for when looking for information on how to use the lighting and for how to set the lighting up ether in studio or on location.

This is one of the Bowens 500w head lights, this one doesn't have a lamp bulb attached as this is the one that didn't work. This head light can only be used as a flash but if needed to have constant light then it wouldn't be of any use.

This is not the best photograph but it shows the bulb working and what i mean by constant light.

I didnt need to put a new bulb in this one as it was all working in good order but most head lights on the day needed new bulbs.

This picture above shows how i have put the lighting heads in order and it goes from 500w to 450w and then to 150w.. all the heads are now working and have brand new lamp bulbs.

Helmut newton

Helmut newton

Born in Berlin, Germany and has been interested in photographs since the age of 12 when he purchased his first camera and worked with a photographer called Elsie Neulander Simon. In 1930 Helmut newton become a  reporter for the Straits Times and worked as a portrait photographer.

We had a discussion in uni over Helmut newton and the question was asked weather Helmut newton's photography is porn and personally I feel it's not porn and it is purely the human form and its how people see his work in terms of beauty and the human condition. Maybe Helmut newton loves the women's natural form and shape and because of this then thats why he likes photographing this.

I chosen this image as it shows what I am saying above. This photograph is not in anyway pornographic I don't think and I feel it's basically photographing nude women in a studio.

  

  This photograph is a photograph I have just found and I think it's a great image as it has depth of field and has a perfect women's body with a women holding a polaroid camera and film. I think Another good reason for why this photograph is great is because of the orange background and how it stands out. 

Fashion shoot 4

This is another shoot I done for my fashion assignment. I got permission to photograph on farmers property. This shoot was planed about 2 weeks before hand. When in the stables the houses know or sort of detect that I felt incompatible when being in the same room as them. I was seprized that the horses wasn't shocked when the flash went of when using the lighting. I also had to think about the sink lead because I didn't want to be photographing the model and two horses and then another horse walks in to the lead so I had to have my assistant ready to move the sink lead when a horse walks past. I new It was risky as the horses had never been handled. At times the horses would kick out and some times run round the room that we were in and as they weigh a tun it was very risky and dangerous. I know it was very unsafe to use the horses as a prop if you like but I wanted to do something different, exciting and very 70's and for this assignment I thought it would be great. The Farm keeper put down new hay, groomed and cleaned the houses for when we arrived and as the farmer was very busy anyway so to do all this for me I feel that very appreciative. I did find at times hard to work with a model, assistant and the keeper.. Sometimes I had to get the horses in the right place to get in the shot and feel the organisation was very good and as we worked well together I achieved great shots.

I would like to thank:

Model: Hannah Ruth

Assistant: Faye Rowley

Property owner: Mavis

Keeper: Butch

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This shot was taken on my nikon d700 with a 20mm lens. I used one flash head light with a umbrella to soften the light and a reflector. 

I taken this shot on propose to create flair and to try and capture a degree of fashion and to create a dreamy affect. The two photographs above was taken in to Lightroom and slightly edited but not much as this photograph was perfectly exposed. I love this photograph more as the model is not facing towards the camera but i feel that it gives this photograph caricature and mystery. 

I want to thank:

Model: Hannah Ruth 

Assistant: Faye Rowley

Property owner: Mavis

Keeper: Butch

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer and was born in park slope and was at John Dewey high school. Gregory Crewdson's dad was a Psychoanalysts who worked in the basement of his house and I think Crewdson had thoughts about his past and in one of his photographs you can see how his thoughts went in to this photograph. 

 This is a sort of image that I feel was something of Gregory Crewdsons memory. I think his work is just fantastic as his locations as so vast and the using of light is just unbelievable. In most of my shoots I really do have images and influences on my mind and Gregory Crewdson in my eyes is just a fantastic photographer. When researching Gregory Crewdson I come across a short movie of him working and he says that he doesn't see him self as a photographer but a filmographer as he is so based around the lighting and casting rather than the photographer. 

This is another one of his work and I just love the mystery, strangeness a beauty of it as everything is just so staged and the set or location is just so vast I just don't know how its done in terms of lighting, colour and mist. 

    Another great sample of the light and how Gregory Crewdson tries to get a mood and awkwardness to his photographs. 


Not only is this photographer someone i look up to and admire but he is also someone with great talent and goes out of his way to get some of the greatest photographs in the world. As this man and another photographer over the past 2 years has changed my way of thinking and ways of photographic ability i have moved on and become more critical of my work and want to better my self all the time. i feel doing this and pushing my self will make me a better person and a better photographer not only in years to come but in terms of making a name for my self in times to come. 

fashion shoot

This is a shoot I done in moss side. I drive past this location everyday on my way to university and when I come home. I kept noticing this location and thinking that it would be a great place to use as a location. I boult up the courage to go and see the owner to this location and to ask him if I could go on his property and use it as a location for my fashion assignment. The owner said yes and told his son who worked with him to take me to the location so I can get a better look at the area and the car. I fell in love with this location but was unsure on were and how the lighting would work and be placed. The owners son Kieran was interested in why I wanted to photograph this car and couldn't understand why something that he called scrap I call a great photographic location. I told Kieran I am after abandoned buildings and places for this fashion assignment and he said he new lots of places and he could show me but I would need to keep up with him as he drives really fast. I got in my car and followed him, I found it really difficult to keep up with him as he said he new the roads like the back of his hands. Kieran shown me some locations that i never new existed and I was shocked as I found out there was a prison near by. 

This location when organising the model and started to get in the flow of directing and working with my model I started to notice that my photography was getting better and as my assistant was helping me then the shoot just went from good to great!

The model I had is names Sain, She was such a great model as it was her 1st time and she was great in terms of communicating and keeping in contact. Sain was freezing at this shoot as it was a cold and windy  day. Sain lives in Liverpool and I we agreed to meet at Southport station for 11am. I didn't realise she was driving and when she arrived I had to think about where she was going to park her car. In the end Sain followed me to my girlfriends house were she could leave her car and then we went to the location in my car.

I had George as my assistant and he was brilliant to work with as he helped me carry the lighting and help me set everything up.

This was all done on my Nikon d700 with a Nikkor 20mm standard lens and we used one light with a umberella to soften the light. George placed the light where ever I asked him. Sometimes we placed the light in the car, on top of the car and we even tried lift it high to get a sort of low key shot from a light souse from above .

This photograph above was taken to see if the flash was on and it shows the model and my assistant for the day who at the time was George.

clothes i bought for my fashion

I bought clothes from a charity shop in Ainsdale I spent £60 pounds in this shop  as I got about 5 different outfits. The volunteers loved me as I spent so much in the shop and they said they don't make this much in a week. I was looking for 60's/ 70's clothing and I just loved this shop as it had everything really. When going in to this shop I spoke to the lady and she was really helpful and really wanted to understand what it was I was doing and the reason for why I wanted to buy dresses. I couldn't find a wardrobe designer and am still struggling to collaborate with one.