Evaluation

For my FMP I have photographed a series of photographs, these are fruit& Vegetables and also parts of the body and slightly a few portraits to go with the body ones as well as it is to do with the person.

My idea did change. At the start of the assignment I wanted to do something what was different to everybody else’s, I felt like everybody else would do something like, Portraits, Landscapes. My idea was to take images of perspective images where the man would be closer to the camera and then for example he would be holding a spoon with the sun or moon above it with their mouth pen so it would look like the man or woman is eating the moon. The whole idea of perspective was for it to look quite comical and different than everybody else.

My second idea came that I wanted to swiftly change ideas onto similar work that Bill Brandt creates. He takes images of people and their body’s but puts a slightly twist onto it so you either know what the body part is or you don’t. The main important thing what grabbed me was that it was in black and white and made me think how I could create my own ideas from this inspiration.

looking at other artists which included Arno Rafael Minkkinen was tricky, I absolutely love work he produces but I thought that if I wanted to replicate my images to be similar as his then it would be difficult because one of his images which I love would be impossible to do because of the people who would be willing to do what his models do and to find a similar place or even better location.

from this I then realised I wanted to start taking images of the body in black and white so that the greys can also show up to give a lovely in depth monochrome look to the image. Even though I researched the ideas not all of the body poses what I wanted to re create were easy to make so what I did instead was look for something else I could do in black and white what was possible, what objects or something could give me these shadows what I wanted? This then brought me onto the subject of Still life and fruit.

As this idea was my back up plan I thought this worked out perfectly. Even though originally I was supposed to be just taking images of fruit my idea had changed to fruit and vg because of the different shapes and sizes of what veg can offer.

I then photographed parts of the body and some face shots also to compliment the shoot; I then took images the week after of the fruit and veg which worked out really well how I wanted it to look.

The equipment I have used is a Canon 5D in the studio, I have used Bowen lightening and different types of lighting also. I shall describe the names of the lights. When I was working on the body images I was told about the Barn door light and also the snoot light. I used both of them in both weeks of shooting also. I found out and worked out if you wanted to highlight something specifically then that would be better to use a snoot light than a barn door because the snoot is a small circle at the end and directs the light straight down which I needed. This also gives a great shadow on one side of the body too.

Techniques I used for the body shoot would be that I would shine the light behind a person to develop a great shadow behind the person or the other way round so it shows off the shapes. I would bring the light closer to the person so it would show the shadow darker more and also that I would get more definition of the body shape, for example if it was a leg that was showing.