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The next model for this project follows my friend Emily in the location of her choice; Bonne Nuit. When asking why she liked this area it was mainly about the size, isolation and close proximity of the rocks, bay and beach. The area itself is somewhat remote giving a feeling of isolation. Even when the sun is out it appears this isn’t a particularly busy area adding a level of serenity to the scene. The images I shot of her here follow the same formatting as the rest of this series. Bright colours were highlighted as points of interest and I took a selection of images of the figure around the area exploring different sections of the space. The main image I needed to produce was the backwards postcard shot which will ultimately make up the front of my card. Below is a small selection of images from the day where we adventured around the beach and over the rocks. There were two selected images for this which I will discuss further below. The main question was about the level of detail I wanted in the shot and how it changes the overall image.
For this feature image – which will ultimately create the front of my postcard design – I took two ‘final’ images to select from. In reality there were over 50 different angles but these two were the ones I was most confident with. The main difference is the level of detail included in the image which is mainly through the addition of the green tinted rocks in the foreground. The model’s rich purple hair works brilliantly to juxtapose the blues and greens of her chosen landscape.
The final image selected from this shoot was the less cluttered figure shown below which does not have the extra detail in the foreground. This image shows a crisper final print and will work more effectively as a postcard image. Shooting the second part of Emily’s section for this project may be difficult as she is limited for the number of visitors allowed in her physical home. Because of this, we also shot in a second location which she said was important to her just in case of the impossibility of shooting in her home. Though straying from the stylized portraits in other shoots for this project, the image below was one of my preferred from the day and offers itself to a lot of experimentation. I aim to explore the images taken on this day further to produce some stamps for Emily’s section of the project.
