Chosen Photograph:

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Above shows the photograph I have chosen to edit in response to the fashion photograph I was recreating. I have chosen this image as it was one of my most clear photographs and I feel replicates the original best. I also feel that in this photograph the lighting was working well compared to some of the other outcomes I produced and the subject is standing in the most similar way to the original photograph.

My aims while editing this photograph is to not adjust the photograph too much but to adjust the light and contrast to then put a black and white filter over the top to then create an accurate final outcome.

Editing Process:

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For the first step towards turning the photograph into black and white I started by adjusting the brightness and the contrast slightly so that I had the best amount of shadows and highlights that I felt would work well once in black and white.

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Next I went in and only slightly adjusted the actual shadows and highlights just to enhance what I previously did with the brightness and the contrast.

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For the next step I experimented with placing a cooling filter over the top of the photograph to see how this would effect the image when putting it into black and white to take away the yellow and warm tones.

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Finally I placed the black and white filter over the top of the photograph to recreate the final photograph best and to enhance this photograph itself more.

Final Outcome:

This shows the final outcome for my finished edited photograph, I feel the photograph worked well. I feel it works well in the black and white tones and placing the cooling filter over the top also worked well with enhancing the photograph.

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Background:

The early 1960’s featured a number of diverse trends.  It was a decade that broke many fashion traditions, mirroring social movements during the time.  During the late 60’s there was a backlash by radical feminists in America against accouterments of what they perceived to be enforced femininity within the fashion industry.  Instead these activist wore androgynous and masculine clothing such as jeans, work boots or berets.

Plan:

For this photoshoot I will be taking the images in the studio to give me the best lighting for recreating these AD’s I will use two different subjects one in each of the images.  I am going to be dressing the subject in clothing that is almost exact or close to what the subject in the original image is wearing.

For the first recreation seen below I have found someone I feel will work best to take on this photograph and I have asked them to dress in a way similar to that of the original picture for the best possible recreation I can gain.

I will be trying to show my inspiration from Cindy Sherman by the way I am having my subjects try to embody the way the original subject was standing and acting.

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First recreation:

Above shows the photograph that I have chosen to recreate.  I had my subject stand against the wall and try to recreate the pose that the model was standing in herself.  What I feel could have been done better would be to find an actual wall to take the photographs against rather than in the studio however I feel the rips on the floor of the studio I feel help with the recreation.

Above shows a contact sheet of the images I produced on the day of the photoshoot.  As can be seen some of the photographs came out too dark when I began to adjust the light, however this was able to be fixed in the camera settings with some adjustments.  Taking and thinking of the inspiration from Cindy Sherman I tried to have my subject embody and look at the original image a couple of times to try and recreate and represent the woman in the original photograph.

Unedited Best Outcomes:

Below shows my 6 personal best outcomes from the photo shoots.  After selecting these I will go in and start editing my 2 favorites to be more like the original picture and to enhance them more.

Planning:

The aim of this photoshoot is to capture images which are able to capture the contrast of Jersey’s seawall during the war compared to now, the same aim as Gina Socrates. In order to do this I will capture more macro and texture photographs, to capture the war side as it showcase the more unpleasant side of the sea wall. To capture the walls beauty, I will look at capturing more landscape images which outcast onto the beach. I want to be able to show experimentation with camera settings and so I will be adjusting the ISO to create a subtle noise to work with the textured images. Moreover, I will look at experimenting with different angles, shutter speeds and white balances. One thing I noticed from Socrates images was that her images seemed to have a hint of orange/yellow to help show historical factors, by adjusting my white balance and using the Hue setting on photoshop I believe I will be able to achieve this effect within my work. The location of the photoshoot will be down at First Tower// Saint Helier sea wall, as it is a long wall which will provide multiple opportunities to capture different images of the same stimulus. I will also capture St Ouen’s sea wall as that is the wall Gina captured when she conducted her photoshoot.

Contact Sheets:

Evaluation:

To evaluate this photoshoot I believe that I have been semi-successful with the images that I have taken. I believe that I have met my artistic aim by capturing the two bipolar uses of the sea wall, in order to present Jersey’s journey through the second world war. However, I do believe that I could have taken more images in order to have more outcomes to work with during the editing process. I was able to capture my images at different viewpoints, from a straight on angle to a birds eye view (which where not as successful as they where captured on a plain ride create a blur to the images). In order to further develop this idea I am going to manipulate my top outcomes on photoshop. I am wanting to create double exposures, level, adjust curves, hue and saturation in order to not only make my images have stronger links to Socrates, but to further develop my presentation of the change in the sea wall in the second world war.

Contact Sheet:

For this shoot I originally wanted to focus on a recreating the work of John Davies, however when editing, I found that using a tilt-shift lens effect in Photoshop (by using the quick mask tool in Photoshop, then using the gradient tool to select which area I wanted to be in focus, then deselected the quick mask, and finally added a lens blur from the ‘tools’ section of the quick bar) made the idea of ‘Journeys and Pathways’ stand out more than just landscape images. I utilized this effect to show how small everything really is, or at least how small it can seem. The final outcome of my images looked like this:

Final Images

Out of all my images, I found that this one worked better than most others taken in terms of creating a realistic looking tilt-shift effect, in essence making the buildings look like tiny scale models. I think the angle, and visibility of what is behind the subject in focus helps create this effect.

For this image, I liked how the wider angle helps this it in showing much more than some of the other images, making it look more like a smaller model city. However I think that the shot would have looked nicer if the houses in the foreground weren’t there. Despite this, I do think it once again supports the message of showing how small we are, especially seeing the Avenue in the background, stretching into the mist on the other side of the island.

Unlike the first 2 final images, I wanted to show a more close up view on the buildings, and personally I find this image looks most like a model building set, and really emphasizes the miniature/model look that I was aiming to create. However, I struggled in photographing more interesting buildings for these shots as they were taken around the Fort Regent area, and therefore meant I had very little to work with in terms of getting nice buildings at the right angle, yet I still think this image works for the message I’m trying to put across.