DIGITAL MEDIA WITH STUDIO PRODUCTION

For the studio production project I cooperated with the one of the students from my group who was designing and making dresses. I proposed to create pictures of her dresses which she required for her exhibition. We decided to cooperate and arrange a model and studio for a photo shoot. My colleague arranged the model who could pose but just on Saturdays. I found out that we could not use the college studio during Saturdays so we needed to find different times.

We still had two weeks before exhibition and decided to make pictures the week after asking model to come during week day. She took a half day off and we booked the studio.

We had three different dresses and the photo shoot took us about two hours. I set the lights, partially using natural light coming through the window, we choose a white background to emphasise the lines and fabric and started to shoot. This work involved a little a bit of guidance for the model in terms how to stand and move because she was not professional.

After checking through all the images I had I chose the best from them and showed to my colleague. She was very satisfied with the results. After negotiations and discussions from all of them she picked up two images for her project. At the end stage I used my Photoshop retouching skills and pictures were ready. 

I am satisfied with the final outcome but it would be great if we have better access to the photo studio and more accessories and different background’s colours. I had professional projects before where I have used professional modules but I found this one unusual and challenging in different way.

FASHION PHOTOGRAPHY 1960's STYLE

My favorite fashion photographers are David Bailey, who is regarded as one of the best British photographers. Along with Terence Donovan and Brian Duffy, he captured and helped create the 'Swinging London' of the 1960s: a culture of high fashion and celebrity chic. The three photographers socialised with actors, musicians and royalty, and found themselves elevated to celebrity status.

Terence Donovan was a British photographer and film director, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s.

Brian Duffy was an English photographer and film producer, best remembered for his fashion photography of the 1960s and 1970s and his creation of the iconic "Aladdin Sane" image for David Bowie.

David Bailey’s work

 

Bailey’s fashion work and celebrity portraiture, characterized by stark backgrounds and dramatic lighting effects, transformed British fashion and celebrity photography from chic but reserved stylization to something more youthful and direct. His work reflects the 1960s British cultural trend of breaking down antiquated and rigid class barriers by injecting a working-class or “punk” look into both clothing and artistic products.

Another person who gave me inspiration was Albert Watson. He is a Scottish photographer well known for his fashion, celebrity and art photography, and whose work is featured in galleries and museums worldwide. He has shot over 200 covers of Vogue around the world and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s.

 

After researching the fashion photography area and choosing one of my favorites artists work I decided to create fashion shoots with elements of 1960. We used vintage style dresses for the models and 1960’s hair styles and make up. I went through the look of women in 1960’s.

Looking at the work of iconic photographers I tried to achieve the wildness, dramatism and beauty of David Baileys pictures and mysteriousness and grace of Albert Watson’s work as well as 1960’s atmosphere and style. In these artists work I really like the shapes, compositions and the way they are playing with the lights and shadows in their pictures, sophistication of the light and dark tones of the image.

During the process of creating my work I was setting up the scene directing and positioning model to get the right composition. I was setting up the light for the scenes, directing not only the key light on my model but the side and back light as well, also setting the background lighting to achieve quality image. Sometimes I was using just natural light from the window which gives quite interesting and natural feeling to the picture which I think is like a magic in photography and puts your image on a completely different level of art.

 

Comparing my work to iconic photographers of 20th century I would say I need more creative and artistic images in the future using weird and unusual clothes, dresses and accessories, interesting breathtaking locations and I would like to experiment more with natural light and shadows. For now I think I achieved quite good results, I am very happy with the work I've done and it gives me more confidence, inspiration and desire to achieve more higher levels of photography.