Final Lighting Techniques

I have produced three final lighting images for my mock project, I have used a range of different lighting within the studio and a range of different lighting experimentations.

Photo One~

This first photo is an example of using softbox lighting, by having the light placed above the models head it creates a shadow across the models face and allows for a very bright lighting. This photo is also an example of a three-point pose where you can see from above the thigh of the model but not the feet.

Photo Two~

This photo is another example of soft box lighting but with the model looking straight at the camera creating a further personal effect, this creates a personal attention between the person looking at the photos .

Photo Three~

I edited this photo to be in black and white to create a more vague effect, to allow the mind to think, you can see the different lightings within this self portrait on the crevices in my jumper.

Final Masculinity and Femininity

Femininity and masculinity is a very hard thing to pick up just generally on a camera, there is so much baggage that comes with either/or so I have tried my best to represent this in a in depth story telling way.

Photo One ~

I have chose this photo as one of my final outcomes due to its display of the beauty of being feminine rather than all the baggage that comes with it, a woman’s mind generally goes both ways when a male starts talking about femininity, either wondering if there about to display sexism and sterotypical explanation’s or whether theyre going to talk about the beauty of being a woman. I feel like there is so much negativity around girlhood and womanhood so I’ve decided to try my best to portray the fun within it. The stereotype that only females can wear makeup has been around since makeups birth, and many people either frown upon this or agree, I have captured my model doing her makeup (lip-gloss), to show just how much fun something like makeup can be. Many people (mostly men) shade on makeup claiming that nowadays a woman’s beauty can be removed with ‘one wipe’, and so what? Woman have been denied fun all their lives, being shoved into stereotypes of cooking and cleaning, and when makeup was created this changed the lives of women and girls all across the globe, this is why I have captured my model in a very girly lit environment, not only to juxtapose her and her surroundings’ but also to create ambient lighting to portray the mood of female empowerment and all the happiness that comes along with it.

Photo Two~

I have taken the opposite approach for my second photo, this photo is aiming to describe what it’s like to be a man. Men are stereotyped to generally not talk about their emotions and that would make you ‘feminine’, so i have tried to capture this by photographing the ‘lone skater’. Men are known for being ‘alpha’ and like they should always have one foot forward and planning ahead, for example they should provide for the whole family, and although this may give them a purpose in life this may not be what they were personally born to do. Men have hobbies too, such as skating,skating is generally seen as masculine as its a sport of throwing yourself around, but i wanted to capture skating as a breath of fresh air, something to free a males locked up mind, by skating you can take all the pressure off your head and do something that they enjoy, I have seen men be shamed for doing what they want to do instead of fitting into their own stereotype, so i wanted to portray this as a sadness, a lone sadness, like males cant have fun with their friends but instead have to roam alone. I have put this image in black and white to use the darker colours to portray the meaning behind the image, the scariness and loneliness like theres no one around to lean on.

Photo Three~

I have tried to make this feminine photo more masculine by adding a colour tint to the image, I chose the colour green which is typically related with masculinity to create a sense of incongruity. I wanted to capture the beauty of being a female and how many fun things you can do that ‘males cannot’, such as makeup and looking pretty spending hours getting ready, to prove that we literally just do it for ourselves and not for men.

Photo Four~

Final Environmental

An environmental portrait is executed in your characters personal environment, it’s the beauty of finding a model and snapping a photo of them doing what they love most to tell a story, this is why I have chose these two photos as my final images.

Image One~

I have chose this full-body shot photo to be one of my final submissions for environmental photography because it tells a whole story. The lighting within this image portrays many different things about this character’s emotions when within their environment the brighter lighting shows emotions of confidence and happiness rather than being hidden in the corner of darkness, the shade of fuschia pink shows the ‘girliness’ of the environment, which coordinates well with subliminal messages being portrayed by items also within the images, such as the flowers around the mirror, the clothing on the clothes rail which is only slightly being captured and much more, this creates an intense ambiance of feminine energy. There are also other concealed things within this photo that tell a story, such as the two business logos he hind my model which display ‘showgirl sass’, a hidden message like this can make you wonder what they are, ‘showgirl sass’ is my character’s business, where she dances and teachers other people her passion. Overall this is a very wholesome photo, which is another reason why I have decided for it to be my final submission. Although the image is quite grainy it almost makes it look more alive, like there is an actual conversation and interaction going on behind and infront of the camera.

Image Two~

I have chosen this as my second environmental portrait because I love this three-point image, I have edited the photo to be in black and white to keep the main focus on the energy this image is giving off and the pure emotion which is captured within it. This image consists of two friends skating, making valuable memories which they will one day go on to tell their children, which allows this image to portray a story. By having my models smiling it yet again adds onto the sheer raw emotion which has been captured within this image. The lighting I used was the daylight on a cloudy day, and although that may seem gloomy the atmosphere was most certainly the opposite, showing how a good friendship can allow you to be happy even on the darkest of days. This photo creates a sense of stereotype as well, the fact that they are ‘obviously boys skating’ ad not girls and also there ages, skating is generally perceived as a sport for the young which I have portrayed here but this doesn’t mean that it completely vanishes from you when you are older, it’s something that you can teach on, a passion.