Evaluation

Exhibition-

My Final 6

 

I have chosen these photographs as my final 6 because I think they are my strongest images. Each photo can stand alone but also fit perfectly as part of my series. I think I have managed to achieve the visual cohesion within my images I originally set out to do which makes me confident when submitting them. Referring back to the issue I think that is present within todays society surrounding beauty and who has what it takes and who doesn't based upon their looks, I think I have broken through this boundary by taking males and females from different ethnicities and putting their portraits together as a series to show that everyone has beauty and that society can't categorise people. 

Business Cards

I decided to use the website moo.com to create some business cards for have left University to help me gain contacts.
I have chosen to use the portraits taken in this module so there is a fluidity to it.

Project Proposal

Printing-

I printed my images in 3 sessions. I did it this way so that I wasn't in a mad rush towards deadline because from past experience I know that printing is very busy at that time.
I used the uni printing service and printed onto A3 as I thought this would be a reasonable size for hand in. This was also to match my print box.

Shoot 9 with Hemina

When I was in the early stages of organising this shoot I knew I wanted to shoot a mixed race female too keep up my theme of diversity between my models as so far all the females I had shot had been white. I was unsure which backdrop to use as I had used most of the colours available at this point but after looking back through my previous shoots I decided I wanted to shoot on the yellow background again as I wasn't happy with either shoots that I used it with. 

This proved to be a good decision because I really like the colour against her skin tone and how it will bring brightness to the series of portraits as a whole. I finally managed to use the 85mm lens for this shoot, which made it a lot easier than the ones with the 50mm as it gave me the effect that I wanted.

Hemina had never modelled before which actually was good news for me as it meant no one else from the class had shot her. (At this point it was hard to find a model no one else had shot.) She was quite confident and took instructions really well so I would definitely do a shoot with her again in the future. 

I think that where I had mentioned early on in this module where I was looking at artist's such as David Lazar and Steve McCurry that I wanted to use his focus on the eyes in my work has worked because in my finals the eyes are prominent and draw you in to the photograph and and make you feel like you are in their personal space.

Contact sheet-

Lighting Set up -

Edits- 

These are 3 images that I picked out from the shoot and edited. I really like these three however I think the top image is the better one to have in my finals as it keeps the visual consistency with my other finals. I think this is a good final image and will sit well the rest of my portraits. Im excited to print it and put them all together in my print box.