William Klein photoshoot

I would say that this photoshoot went quite well as I was able to capture some good images inspired by William Klein. I went around town with my model and tried to get some decent looking background, just like William did in New York, although jersey is a lot smaller and isn’t as posh as New York, I did manage to get a good set of images. My main goal was to try and find a wide cross walk so that I could recreate on of his famous photos, but I found it difficult and was only able to capture small cross walks, which isn’t bad but made it very difficult to make this photoshoot link in with my artist. I asked the model to pose for me in numerous places and even tried to get similar pictures to Klein’s, although it was difficult to get the model to wear a set of outstanding and bold clothes, I would say I still managed to get a similar aesthetic as I had planned to get. Most of the places in Jersey has scaffolding which doesn’t help and tends to make the image look very tacky, but that could a representation of what jersey is and how it is different to New York, jersey is a lot less busier and smaller, the population is lower and there are barely any shops left. This is what my hometown looks like and that is how it’s meaningful to me. After collecting these photo’s I then implanted them onto photoshop to edit the black and white effect just like Klein did to his. Though when I was editing, I realised that I was able to make my images different shades of black and white and add a tint of yellow to it, which made it look more unique and original. I will also be editing some other things on these images, to help present it better when constructing it into a book. For example, my plan is to make it look like a vogue magazine, so I will be implanting the vogue sign on the top and adding more detail to the bottom describing what my book is about. overall, this photoshoot went quite well and helped my get an understanding on the way William Klein photographed and how difficult it is to get decent images when in the middle of town, I did have certain goals when capturing my photographs and didn’t exactly manage to capture all of them but I did recreate one of William Klein’s photo with the model on the stairs walking it, but I did realise when I was photogating I wasn’t able to see the stairs so it didn’t really go as plan, so next time I do a photoshoot I will make sure to have a certain inspiration photograph to recreate and focus on one photograph at a time. I would also like to try and control my lighting a bit better as in some of the photographs they are darker and in others they are lighter, which doesn’t really help to balance the set of photographs I want to put together when contracting my Photobook/ magazine. I did find that when the model wasn’t looking directly at the camera it made the photograph look better, it added a sense of mystery and was overall just different from regular photographs of fashion photography, it almost added a style like Vivian Maier had in her candid photographs, I did also try and add different levelling when taking the photo just like Willian did, he tended to be higher up taking his models from above whereas I did the opposite and tried to get a shot of the models form below. I would definitely like to go back to town and get some more images with the same model wearing different clothing and try to find different surroundings, possibly when its busier as in Williams Klein’s images he always had people in background of his photographs. 

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  1. Develop fashion shoots using the urban street environment with a bit more planning and intent. ie. choose locations, light models, poses – show more variation, experimentation with framing of model, take use urban environment as texture, backdrop. Be more adventurous and take more risks!

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