I have decided to use Mike Kelley as inspiration for this shoot especially his set off work – Ahh… Youth!

When planning my next shoot for my project I chose to look at my favourite toy that I have had since the day I was born. This cat comes everywhere with me on holiday to important event. It is a sign of luck for for me and security and has been always since I was little. He sleeps in my bed every night when I don’t have him there I feel worried very often and can’t calm myself down in a uncomfortable situation. When I decided to go ahead with my spinal surgery I knew that I needed to take my cat with me because otherwise i would feel lost without him.

Plan for my shoot is to look at my cat on a completely plain background so the focal point is just on my toy and nothing else. I have chosen to do this rather than photograph my cat in my bed or a place where he normally remains because I wanted to show him in a still life situation. I wanted to do this because i felt a background could take away form the actual focus of the image. I just want to show the toy and how many people have this same experience with toys.

Actuall plan for the photo shoot: Go down to the studio and set up the still life tabel with the lights. Also set up the tripod for my camera so my images are still and in focus. I am going to set up two lights either side to block out the shadow caused by the teddy meaning the foreground and background are seamless so the focal point will soaly be on the cat. The background of the image will be white because that is the color of the still life table. I think this color will work really well with the cat because it is black and will contrast the background making the image stronger and will give it more depth because of the strong contrast. Also my teddy where’s costs so experimenting with him having them on and off and him in different positions and then put all the images into lightroom classic cc and see which images i keep and which images i will discard, to then take on to the editing process.