For my environmental Portraits, I used the Documentary Photographer Sian Davey as inspiration. I really liked Davey’s work because she has a spontaneous feel to the environmental portraits.  She always focuses on one particular character within the set of images, and this is what I tried to create within my environmental portraits.  I wanted to achieve a theme within my images, slimier to what Davey does. For my project I chose to focus on my friend, who is like family to me.  I wanted to do something which links closely to what Davey does in her images. According to Davey, she likes to link Psychology with her Photography, so I decided to incorporate parts of my friends personality within the environmental portraits.

Shes a very creative character, who likes to explore nature and live closely with the environment. I aimed to capture a set of images that showed this clearly through the setting and framing of each image. She also enjoys photography like me, so I wanted to interpret this within the photos. I wanted to create a natural, old fashioned documentary feel to the set of images, so I decided to edit them into black and white.  I am really pleased with my final outcome  because each frame is completely different, with some close ups and some far away. The way the model is positioned in each frame is also very different, so I’ve managed to achieve a vast amount of individual images which work together well.

Out of all the images from the shoot, this is my favorite one because of the framing, what shes doing in the photo, and the setting of the image. At the time of the photo, she was simply messing around in the woods, and I managed to capture a series of images of her in her natural environment. This image though is my favorite from the set because of the playful atmosphere around it.