For this shoot, I wanted to represent a musical journey combined with a travelling journey. I wanted to represent a girl who was on the move, but would take her music with her everywhere, but not someone who would just use their IPod and headphones to listen to music, but someone who makes their own.

The reason for the location at the start of the shoot was because it shows a beautiful environment with the sea and trees in the background, but it also shows a road which represents movement and travelling. It’s as if the girl is following the road to the sea. This is why she ends up sat in front of the sea, because its representing her journey.

For this image below, I made her face away from the camera, and then I would count down to free and she’d turn her face around and I’d capture the moment. This technique is done to capture a moment which doesn’t look as posed and make it not feel as posed for the model so they don’t feel as awkward in front of the camera, and also to create movement in the photographs. In the image below, due to the position and natural lighting there is a loop lighting technique created on the models face. The thing I would change about this portrait is I should of waited a few more minutes for the cars to pass in the background, because I find they take away from the portrait, and I should have positioned the model slightly different so she wouldn’t be blinded by the sun and her eyes would be more open. However, I think the use of focal point worked well in this image, as I wanted the model to be the main subject, yet showing the important aspects like the sea and the road.

In the image below, there is a split lighting on the models face produced by natural lighting. The model is slightly positioned to the right however she is what immediately look at, due to her skin colour being pale. The composition works nicely as one can see the road which looks like it takes you directly to the sea. The way the model is higher up than the level of the road, makes her look adventurous and takes risks to appreciate natural beauty, and views like this inspires her to write new music. In this image there is a lot of depth, except in the background behind her upped body, where there is negative space, i think this works well as you focus on the mode more and aren’t distracted by a busy background. When editing this photograph I referred back to Theo Gosselin, as he tends to have a cinematic/vintage effect which I chose to use on this image.

 

I love this image, as it looks so natural and in the moment, as if I just picked up my camera at the perfect time. When in reality it was staged to look the way it does, for example I wanted her to sit in this position so I could get the trees, on the right, and the wall on the left to frame her and the sea in the background. For this image I also used the technique where I would get her to turn around so it wasn’t looking posed.

This image works well due to all the different elements, such as the birds in the background. The way the models got her arm bent, holding onto her hat, the carve of her elbow almost works as an arrow therefore your eyes follow the direction the elbows pointing in, which makes your eyes focus on the birds in the background. Normally one associates birds with peace and freedom, which is what i wanted to represent in this shoot. When i think of birds, i think of fleeing the nest, which is what these young people have done, they’ve taken their vans and have gone travelling away from home. I also like the fact one quite often hears the term ‘a songbird’ which is a bird with a musical song, like what the girl in this shoot has, as she’s got her guitar with her in most photographs.