Photo-Shoot One
Record
Drawing / Sketch
Photo-shoot Title:
"Im Often Silent when screaming inside"
Photo-Shoot Concept & Aim:
This shot is about capturing someones inner mind. I am trying to capture the ideas of Mental Health. I will show ideas of anxiety and how can be so drained physically but inside is screaming out. I am looking to capture an emotion and feeling. With this photo-shoot i can show one big emotion while showing two. One photograph can show sadness and sorrow while the other one pain and anger. Together these photographs show anxiety and depression. Using this i can hope to tell a story. With this photo-shoot i can create a story of what people who have mental disorders go through. It shows how they feel and how their lives our when no one is around.
Date & Timing:
This photo-shoot will take place on the 12th of December 2016 at 4pm. This time allows the room to be more dark creating the mood of the photograph.It will take approximately 1 to 2 hours. The location is a bedroom so there is no booking required, i have chosen a bedroom as its a realistic and believable environment as teenagers tend to isolate themselves in their bedrooms more so with mental illnesses.. I have obtained a model, "Ebonny Jay Cavanagh" who has helped me in other photographs and photo-shoots from different projects. I will also have self-portrait photographs this then allows me to capture new meaning and explore different compositions. For example I can explore how the story would change if the gender of the subject changes.
Location:
This will take place in East Herrington with in a bed room. I will need no permission. This location will be seen from a very low view point. The camera will be on the floor to take the photograph. I will use a low vantage point showing horizontal lines.
Props:
Lighting will be used to help brighten up the subject. I will create space in my photo-shoot to allow my subject to model. I will allow a Cabinet to be in the background of my photograph.
Models:
The Model within my photo-shoot will be Ebonny Cavanagh who will help me with the female side of modelling. I have chosen her as she volunteers to take part and model for my photographs. She has taken part in my photographs from other projects. I will also do self-portrait photographs and be modeling in the photographs myself to capture the male side of modelling and visual storytelling. This can help me compare the difference between a male and female model and what it does to change the photograph I will have my models firstly lying on the floor with one check on the floor making them look drained to show no emotion to express silent pain.
Team:
The team consists of three people. Myself for one to do the modelling and photographer. Ebonny Cavanagh as the secondary model and light coordinator and third Julia Williams who is incharge of positioning of equipment and models.
Equipment and Preparation:
The camera I have used for this photoshoot is a Fujifilm Finepix S9600 Camera with a Integrated 28-300mm lens. The batteries were fully charged before shoot. Additional lighting was used with a studio light facing the model or pointing away to create dark shadows. The ISO settings will be set to ISO-200 while the shutter Shutter Speed will be set on 1/200seconds and an Aperture of f/8.
Desired Shots:
I would like to capture the model lying on the floor so for this I will need to use a low angle shot. It will include the models upper body so the camera shot should range from media long shot to media close up. The composition must show the model on their own agreeing with the rule of thirds. cabinets must be behind the subject with nothing in front allowing our subject to be the main focus of the photoshoot. The vantage point must show horizontal lines and will be eye level with the audience.I will aim for my photograph to be strong and tell a clear story with my visual representation helped by my post production effects.
Reference Images:
Maren Klemps technique of using her hands and positioning them in unnatural ways have influenced my work to use hand position to create emotions and erie feelings within my photographs.
Laura Hospes is a photographer who documents her depression using self portraits. She has influenced my work with her silent facial expressions. Her blank stairs and powerful eyes have influenced my work to create this striking stare. All of Laura Hospes photographs are in black and white I will use this technique within my work by making them black and white. She also uses her bedroom and simplified backdrops to make things more realistic and relatable as well as pinning the focus on her I shall use these techniques of composition to influence my work further.
Post Production:
I intend to take my photographs and put them in photoshop elements 14 and bring the two scenes together. I will enhance the photographs by changing their colour and hues as well as brightening or darkening the photographs. I will blend and merge the photographs together to create a deep meaning showing my theme of beneath the surface. I intend for my photographs to be displayed stills with traditional methods of leaving them as electronic photographs and digitally manipulate them.
Laura Hospes
Maren Klemps
Produce
Outcome
This photograph uses the black and white old school filter. This filter helps light up the subject on the top while clearly showing the subject on the bottom. The filter makes the image look light and so helps clearly see all that is around the subjects.This adds shadows around the outside of the drawing the attention towards the centre of the photograph and onto the subjects faces.
This photograph uses the black and white Silver filter. This filter doesn't involve a shadow around the side and gives the photo a silver tint to it. This allows for a brighter view of the subject below with now a constant contrast through the subject on top.
This photograph uses the black and white platinum filter. This allows a black and white shadow around the frame and lights up the centre but also keeps the subject on the bottom dark and rough.
This photograph uses the black and white tinted black filter. This darkens the image to a true black and white effect. This allows the subject on the bottom to have a rough texture towards it. This filter displays the subject underneath to be darker than the subject on top.
This photograph I have used the split tone effect. I have done this from inspiration from the original photograph that inspired my work. This colour of blue represents the cold feeling of the subject it connotates isolation and loneliness. This effects helps my express my meaning and story through this photograph.
This photograph does not include any filters. Instead I have colour corrected my images while tweaked the lighting and contrast different hues to create the simplification of bottom subject. This photograph shows the subject in a totally black and isolated environment truly representing being stuck in the dark and being trapped inside your head. This photograph lights up both subjects but displays them both in a dark light to show them still in pain.
Start off with both images together
Colour Correct the Male
Shorten the length of the carpet down
Adjust the Carpet so it goes to a similar grey
Tweek the lighting abit and blur the carpet
Take saturation out the male
add a little bit of saturation back
This has been my first outcome. I cropped and positioned these photographs together to mirror each other. This then allows me to capture a basis of the idea I was aiming for. This is when after I had to colour correct the bottom photograph to match the lighting of the top photograph. This also meant I had to go around and fix and edit the carpet changing its hue and cloning it in places so it all matches and appears as one photograph. This photograph now fits my idea of from my planning and working perfectly portraying the emotions and inner battle of the subject. This tell the narrative of the struggle beneath the surface.
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This photograph now similar to the first one plain and simple no effects or alteration on the lights. However this is now a change in gender for the subject character This experiment now allows us to focus on the different perspective and attract a different audience. The Aperture was set to f/8 with the shutter speed set to 1/200 seconds and an ISO of-200 this would be the most effective settings for my photoshoot. I have used a range of visual elements including use of line. straight lines can be seen on the tripod and the TV stand. Curved lines can be shown with the curve in the subjects. Shape is seen in the curve of the subjects the shape of their head body and face. Tone is featured throughout this photograph as the subjects dark clothes will contrast against the white surroundings of the carpet and wall. Alongside tone colour is used by having dark objects and items in the frame along side the models with blacks greys and dark purples been a high percentage of the overall images colour scheme. Space was used in the centre of the image to separate the subjects. Space was then also given around the subjects allowing them to appear small and isolated within this photograph. Texture wasn't highly used but is shown partially on the carpet. Pattern is seen with the lines and dents on the radiator. Composition was a key in while creating this photo shoot with vantage points having horizontal lines and the subjects lying on them lines. Framing was used to help place the subjects faces within the centre of their photographs which then would match up on the centre vertical vantage point when splitting the photograph in half. Rules of thirds have been applied as both models bodies will hit the lines. Rules of odds and evens have been applied as there are two subjects within the photograph which gives it a balance the subjects are actually cut off and in their original photographs are alone giving a sense of unease as its an odd number together they produce and even number but because of the composition how one is over the other the feeling of unease is still there as there is a sense of imbalance within the photograph. Rules of space has been used and previously mentioned giving the subjects space between one another as well as space around them to make them feel isolated and alone. Simplification has not been used in this photograph as i needed to fill the background with objects commonly found in a bedroom to make the photograph more realistic. Repetition and pattern are not used in this photograph, the closest thing would be the lines on the radiator, Artificial light was used for this photograph to act as a spotlight to light up and brighten the sujects face. Then during post-production i played around with filters, lighting, brightness settings, colours and contrast settings to create the image here. This makes the image more vibrant and stands out more as it is brighter than the original images. The Narrative created in this image like most art work is open to interpretation as its up to the audience and how they read it and decode it. It could be like my second refinement and show that this women feels trapped and beneath the surface of her biological body. However i would like to view this personally as the story of a man and women suffering a break up the women shows her mood and how shes upset and fed up and has given in while the male is distraught effected greatly by this and is physically screaming in pain. However the first refinement when the subject was the same model, again personally, to me the narrative is a man who has lost all hope for the world and his surroundings and is tired and has ran out off all energy because inside him deep within he is constantly screaming in pain and anger and upset and no one but him can hear and this leads in to give up.
This photograph now shown with the Male subject on top and the female subject on the bottoms creates a new message for this photograph. No longer is the subject trapped in his mind but now beneath the surface of his biological body he is shown to have n identity crisis as he is truly a woman.
Start with both images, Male flipped
Colour Correct Girl
Colour Correct Male
Blend and colour in carpet
Adjust blur and lighting to match one carpet
Evaluation:
I wanted to create the ideas of Mental Health. capturing concept of severe depression anxiety by constructing emotion and feeling in my photograph.
I believed that i have achieved this. I trust that through evaluation and sharing this photograph I have successfully achieved a powerful photograph that has managed to achieve this feeling and emotion of depression. I am proud of the quality produced from this photoshoot as i have successfully produced the work i initially intended to do with almost exact accuracy of my concept and productive design.
I could improve my work by changing the props in this photoshoot. Such props include the surface in which my models are lying on. Instead of a soft carpet i could change it to a cold wooden flaw. The objects in the background could all be moved out is that all is seen is an empty room and a plain wall.
The pose was done with great effect to communicate my ideas successfully . I felt it was a right choice for the mood of the piece making imaginative compositions of the subjects in question.
Another element that went very well is the lighting which helped further communicate the mother post production effects using photoshop or practical effects using lights and black out curtains helped brighten the subjects and cancel out the background. Certain aspects of the subject are lit up according to the message and communicated in each different photograph and pose.
Technical Aspects such as ISO, Shutter speed and aperture have all been used to direct the cameras focus to create a strong focal point in the image. The shutter speed was set to a low speed to focus and capture the still subject. While the aperture was set to F/8 this allowed for minimum light to be absorbed in the photograph while focusing more on the subject than the background.
Areas of improvement would include refining my images and experimenting with simplification and even using the alternative images I have already created and try joining different ones together.
Camera Controls:
ISO: ISO-200
Shutter Speed: 1/200seconds
F-Stop: f/8
Source light added from left behind the camera to add more detail to the subjects face.