Photoshoot for poster

Photoshoot for poster

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  Photoshoot for poster. 10.12.13
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  What I wanted... WhenI first started my photo-shoot I had in mind the image I would like to have and so to start off I made sure that the clothing was in accordance to the colours of the iconic tea cup. I took around 100 images and then decided on four possible images which showed different positions I used. All of my images are face on images as I knew I wanted a face on close up which is why there is very little experimentation with angles. I had a makeup artist training at the college to come in and help me with the application of the fake cut. She used FX make up wax and fake blood to produce the small cut on his cheek. In the below pictures I used four lights to try and get bright lighting with correct shadows. However, when I uploaded the images I believe that the lighting is far too bright and I wanted a less colourful image with darker reds and burgundy’s. Also a lot of my shadows were out of line so if i was to do this shoot again I would use three point lighting which would eliminate all shadows. Therefore, in the editing process I need to lower the saturation and make the image darker to give it the more mysterious effect I was looking for.
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  This was thefirst position I tried when shooting, from this face on angle you can see the cut on his face and all of the colours work well together, the lighting is just to bright as said earlier. The eyes are in the image which I do not like but I can easily crop out in the editing process. Originally I wanted the tea cup to be positioned slightly over his mouth but as I was taking images I decided that this covered too many facial features that I wanted to be defined in the image. As I planned it to be a close up image I didn’t want to retract from features and I believed that the shape of the mouth could say a lot about the character.
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  Because of whatI decided about the mug in the previous image, I decided to move the tea cup away from the face and have a half smiling and mysterious grin on the models face to show cheekiness, and this accompanied by the cut on his face makes him look intriguing. I wanted to cup to be in focus and I managed to do this my adjusting the aperture and shutter speed on the camera, enabling the background to blur slightly. I liked this image but was not fond of the crinkled shit, out of alignment buttons and shadow on the shirt so I plan to change all of this in Photoshop.
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  Next I triedto include the saucer for the cup but id didn’t like how this worked out. I don’t like how I decided to blur the cup and focus on the character, I liked it better the other way round because it added mystery. The model looked uncomfortable and I don’t believe that it added the same impact that the above picture did.
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  Finally I wantedto see what the image would look like if I decided to do a landscape poster, but when I started shooting landscape I decided that because I wanted to impact of a close up. A close up image would highlight the tea cup and emotional features; a landscape image wouldn’t work because it did not give the same effect. Although the black background contrasts well and I could have placed the text in here, it just didn’t have the same impact I was looking for and if I was to do a horizontal poster I would probably change my stylistic ideas.
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  Overall... I believe thatthe second image is my favourite because the positioning of the model is exactly how I want it. The tea cup is correctly in focus more than the rest of the image to add the sense of unknown which I was looking for and which is reinforced by the removal of the upper facial features. I also like the expression on the models face and the way that it is not covered up by any props yet he still looks comfortable. The issues I am going to face are the removal of the out of alignment buttons and the shadow but I plan to be able to work that out in the editing process on Photoshop.