This photoshoot was inspired by William Klein, William Klein is one of the artists i’m inspired by. He does a light drawing photoshoot that is also inspired by fashion, which I thought would be a good experiment to try. This photoshoot was very difficult to do as I had to change the camera to a a low ISO of 100- 200 and change the shutter speed between 10-30 seconds to give me enough time to do some patterns with the light. I used a flashlight as the source of light, and it worked very well. However, it was more difficult to make patterns with the light as there were times when the light would be blurry or overpowered and took control of the whole photograph. I took some basic portraits of the model to be able to achieve the same work as Klein. I not too sure on the way Klein managed to succeed in this photoshoot as it was very challenging, the way I was able to make my photoshoot work as by photoshopping the images together. I had to edit the photos of the light with a very high contrast to be able to have the same look as Klein had achieved. I did try to create the same shapes as Klein did, but it didn’t work as I had planned therefore; I created my own shapes, and I believe it did work quite well. I used my school studio to create these images and didn’t exactly have this photoshoot in mind but thought it would be to try. The last photograph has a shape inspired by William Klein; however, the model isn’t doing the same pose as I wanted to try and make my images more unique. I went on photoshop to edit my photos, I firstly blended merged the images together and make sure the background colour and shade matched. I had to darken the background to make the light stand out more which as a slight shadow to the background, I used the brush tool to erase the light patches in the background. In some of the photos i kept the light shadow as it was harder to remove but it still had a cool effect on the photo. In one of the final pieces, I edited two different shaped lights into one photo which helped to make the image look more detailed and fuller. When doing research on William Kleins light drawing i came across some information ” Klein’s early paintings hints at an influence of the abstracted figural and still life works of Picasso, and by the graphics and designs of Bauhaus and Mondrian that later led to his mural paintings; while his fashion photography encapsulates the raw energy exuded by the streets of Paris.”, it is said that Klein did some fashion photography in the streets of Paris and didn’t really tend to make his light drawing images fashionable, instead it’s meant to capture more of an aesthetic. His work is very unique and has a different effect to his other work, he tends to make his images stand out by making them different to everyone else, for example instead of doing a normal fashion photoshoot in the studios he incorporates the streets instead which adds a minimalistic look. 

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