For this shoot I wanted to create the classical Hollywood female lead sort of feel, they often look like they glow and this creates an ethereal resemblance and in many ways they have influenced todays beauty standards.

To create this effect I focused on the beauty the area we shot in and how the model was dressed and situated herself. I had her dress in a dress that complimented her skin tone and hair colour. We walked around for a bit then came across this beautiful little place with a stream going around an island type piece of earth which had trees and bushes growing all around.

These where my camera settings through out the shoot.

The photos are not 100% clear. I wanted blurred lines in some aspects to help display that beauty does not equal perfect. the lack of clarity also creates a sense for intrigue as it is not revealing the whole truth. This is a problem that some people meet when they grow up as they either have their trust broken or don’t know who to trust as others may have lied to them about something in the past. This is a serious problem especially with the popularity of social media where you don’t know who is on the other side of some social media accounts.

I ended up with 69 photos and selected them down 4. I then made different versions of them and colour coded them according to the which were the best in my opinion.

Purple symbolises the photos which I don’t think are the best, where as yellows represents ones are particularly my favourites.

With some I tried to make to model stand out more from the background.

My final selection

This is one of my favourites. the way the models face is obscured creates a mystery in which viewer does not know what the model looks like or who she is. Visually her body follows a 3X3 grid drawing attention to her and not so much the background. The larger depth of field give the photo an ethereal feeling.

This was a fun shoot to do but if I could go back I would create more variety on my photos as a lot of them where very similar. I would also bring some props and carry out all the ideas that we came up with whilst at the soot sight.