Before the Christmas Holidays, I did a photo shoot in the photo studio at school. I decided to use this for the location because I just wanted a simple background to my images. I also wanted the use of the studio lights to highlight certain areas, and to create different shadows. I also really like the atmosphere that they created. My photo shoot was separated into three parts. For each section I slightly changed my camera settings to suit the style and atmosphere that I wanted to create.

For the first part of the shoot, I wanted to simply focus on the body itself, and the shape of it. I wanted to try and capture as many different angles and dimensions as I could. I didn’t want to focus on just one particular are of the body, such as the face. I wanted to photography every detail of the body, from the head to the feet.  I wanted to do it in a creative way though, so I asked the model to make different shapes, and stand in different positions. I tried to use the shadows within the imagery to create a different perspective.

For the second part of the shoot, I included the body suit that I worked on. I was inspired by an image I saw online, and I decided I wanted to re-create something similar. To make the suit, I simply stuffed old tights with different types of material. I also included some balloons because I liked the shape they created, and the shadows they formed. The model wasn’t able to move much in the suit because it was heavy. Therefore I wasn’t able to ask the model and move and make shapes like she did in the first part of the shoot. I still manged to get a wide range of images. I really like the look the different textures create on the camera. I also really like  how some of them reflect the light, and others absorb it. It created a completely different perspective that couldn’t be seen by the eye.

For the last part of the shoot, I simply used different materials to experiment with. I hadn’t planned this part, but I wanted to experiment with the materials to see what different shapes I could create. I really like the way the light reflects off the material because it creates a really cool effect. I’m really happy with some of the outcomes of this part of the shoot. The effect that the material creates is really cool, and works really well with my theme.