Photoshoot 1 – For this photoshoot, I want to lean more towards the mirror photography idea. By asking partners to photograph me and me photographing them. I want my photos to be unique and have some personal twist on it, whether that is certain poses or lighting that I use. I could use different angles of lighting or angles on the camera itself to show my world through a camera lens. I also want to develop my idea while photographing to let the ideas flow as they come

Cindy Sherman has inspired me to tap into the femininity and masculinity topic we went over last year. I loved this topic and as Cindy loves to show the different perceptions people have that you may not see. She photographed herself and showed who she was through her own eyes and therefor through her camera lens.

For this photoshoot, it worked so well to show the windows part of the topic, I didn’t want to focus too much on this part of the topic but thought it would work well to show the other side to mirrors, almost to emphasize my mirror photoshoot itself.

The use of my staged photos worked so well, showed emotion and friendship through window photography and almost another life, staged and filtered but real in itself.

Even though some of my photos didn’t turn out the way the way I wanted them too, I feel like they show a story. An outside view of made up people, can show lives that happen, maybe behind closed doors.

The lighting we used was a small spotlight in a lit up room to emphasize what I want the focal point of my photos to be. We played around with lighting slightly, using ring lights and normal room lights before settling on the spotlight.

Final Photo edits –

Photo 1 –

Initially, I wanted to focus on the highlights and and lowlights of this photo, with the use of shadows created by the single spotlight we used to capture the photo, the use of natural contours extenuate the highlights alone so the use of focusing on the highlights level out both ends of the scale.

For this photoshoot, I wanted to add a black and white filter on top of the photo to add almost a sense of nostalgia to the ‘window’ photos, to help portray the life beyond the camera lens.

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Photo 2 –

With this photo shoot, the edits will pretty much be the same.

Changing the highlights and shadows to suit the photo dynamic again and putting a simple black and white filter over the edits.

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Photo 3 –

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Photoshoot 2 – For this photoshoot, I wanted to focus most on mirror photography, the use of actual mirrors and almost ‘selfie’ looking photos I think is how I want to do this photoshoot. I feel like that can be very powerful for this topic.

The use of microphones for window photography worked really well in my last photoshoot, so I want to include that in this shoot as well. I wanted to interpret this into my shoot but almost change it to mirror by photographing myself.

This photoshoot went so well, the portrayal of window and mirror photography came out so much clearer in this photoshoot.

The use of singular spotlights enhanced the focal point of my photos. The focus of a singular person works well with both mirror and window photography. The use of warm lights emphasizes warm toned skin making the photos untied.

This photoshoot will be used a lot more for my mirror side of this topic. The use of actual mirrors and reflections are a very blunt and obvious way of portraying this ‘mirror’ photography.

Final photo edits –

Photo 1 –

This edit, I wanted to focus on the warm tones and cosy feel for it, extenuating warm tones through deep skin filters in a yellowy red tone. I also focused on the exposure and shadows as well, to give amore focused look at the focal point of the photo, the model.

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Photo 2 –

I loved how this photo turned out, already using a red sheet cover for the red hue, I wanted to include a little more light to the highlights in this photo, without drowning out the warm almost intimate vibe.

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Photo 3 –

Doing a similar thing to the previous photo, I focused on calming down the red hue but not loosing the important highlights and shadows in the process. The blur on the photo gives a sense of uncertainty which is something I think is really important in mirror photography for me.

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Photo 4 –

I wanted to bring back the black and white for this photo, just because I liked the vintage approach. Highlighting and lowlighting where needed and focusing on sharp lights from the studio.

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