photoshoot 1 ( pollution ) –

For this photoshoot, I wanted to include portraiture as well as including the issues from my topics. I wanted the use of plastic bags and zip ties to not only show the excess of plastic and pollution in the world but also the restraint that it has on the human race and the advancement that could be, if it wasn’t as big of an issue. The zip ties were a perfect way of showing the world being ‘held back’ and restrained because of the grip that zip ties have, and the difficulty that comes with taking them off. The zip ties signify the lasso that plastic and pollution have around the world and the major worldwide issues that it causes.

For this first photograph, I wanted to give almost a lifeless and colourless tone to it to show a feeling of hopelessness and despair.

The use of intensifying the highlights and lowering the shadows, was to offer a feeling of almost being lost. This would hopefully show how lost we are at the thought of the state that our world is in and the damage that has been created. I wanted to enhance the vibrancy to almost give a hue of colour to the photo to show that there is hope for the world.

This photo has a similar feel to it and the idea of breaking away from the issues that we’ve caused in the natural world today. The use of cling film was to show the plastic almost being like a barrier that we need to get past before we are able to be ‘okay’, and a stable environment again.

For this photo in particular, I wanted to accentuate the texture to show the unfiltered model ( Lila ) to expand on the idea that this issue is not something to joke about and is in fact a real life problem that millions are facing. I still wanted to lower the shadows because of the idea that we are fearful and almost stuck with this problem till we do something about it.

I didn’t do many changes to this photo due to the photo itself being quite straightforward in showing the problems I’m talking about and trying to show.

I wanted to make this photo overall clearer and almost warmer. This is to show the global warming side of the issue. I lowered the shadows to show that these issues shouldn’t be hidden any longer and the fact that higher powered people in society are hiding the extremity of these problems are almost as damaging as the problems itself.

Photoshoot 2 ( over crowding ) –

For this photoshoot, I limited the amount of photos I took because I wanted it to be as natural as possible and almost not a staged photoshoot. I stemmed the design/layout idea back to the idea of including Topographics ( repeated photos, or similar photos ) I was looking into Andy Warhol and his designs of his paintings and collages, and I thought this would be a great way to show my ideas and also make them more prominent visually.

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Photograph 6 –

My idea for these photos is I am going to assort them into a collage of 6 photos, each model having three photos that match the expression of each other, on each photo.

I’ve placed a colour over each photograph and changed the saturation, vibrance, tint, exposure, some of the tones and temperature of each photo too, to give variety and almost show contrast in different ways.

I’m going to place all photos in a 2/6 grid with each expression opposite each other in almost a similar way to this photo :

Photoshoot 3 pollution –

I decided to include the idea of animals in my photoshoot because not only does pollution affect the human population and how we live, but it also affects the animal habitat and how animals live their lives and the struggles that they have to live with due to the poor decisions that we make as a race concerning the environment.

photograph 1 –

This photo symbolises the idea that people have the power for this problem to not affect animals and their habitats however we just decide not too.

All I wanted for this photo was to enhance the clarity to make the photo better overall and make it look a little more put together since the photo was difficult to get in the first place.

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Edits –

For this edit, I wanted to use an AI generator to help morph ideas together but for this edit in particular it didn’t work very well but I am going to make a few drafts.

With this edit I thought the idea of still having the human hand in the edit would be quite a good idea, because humans have full control over the issue at hand.

My final photo’s for overpopulation –

For my final photo, I wanted to include emotions into the photo to not only make it more eye-catching and almost more expressive. The issues that the photo portrays can cause a variety of emotions depending on the person and I though that including multiple expressions could help the viewer connect with the photo on not just a physical level, but an emotional level too.

Final photo’s for Pollution –