Contact Sheets

This photoshoot was inspired by Jeff Wall’s ‘The Drain’. I have selected the best shots, and filtered them from the main gallery.

Edit One

For this photo I wanted the blue jumper and jeans to be bolder. By adjusting the highlights and increasing the shadows it has given the jeans and jumper a brighter colour without making the cave in the background brighter.

Edit Two

When planning this photoshoot, I knew this is a shot I wanted. To edit it, while I liked how the blue stood out against the rock the black and white enhances the size of the rock making it a more impressive photo. I like how I asked the model to pose, looking up in awe, it adds to the sheer size of the photo.

Edit Three

Similarly to the last the intention was to make the model look tiny in comparison to the rocks. In this shot I liked the blue jumper and how it stood out against the rocks, as the lighting was good I only had to make minimal adjustments to improve this shot. Levelling out the colouring.

Edit Four

Although for this short project I only need three final photos I wanted to edit an extra one to give me choice. I like this one as it is a similar theme to the previous two, vast rocks and cliffs making the model seem tiny in comparison. As I already had a black and white photo of this rock, I kept this one in colour to make the photos not look too similar.

Final Photos

These three photos are my final photos, this shoot was using the ‘mirror’ method creating a scene rather than shooting a naturally occurring one. I posed the model to be in awe of the dramatic cliff faces, creating a childlike wonder in some. I wanted to show how small we are in comparison to the natural world. This however being a mirror style photo shoot is shot in a cropped way, composing the photos with a posed model rather than letting the viewer see the whole picture. I like these three the best as the model appears very small in comparison to the natural rock faces. The blue jumper photos contrast well with the black and white, creating the story I wanted to produce. Similarly to Jeff Wall’s ‘The Drain’ I posed the model to be unaware of the camera, even though they were. He created a covert onlookers perspective in a mirrors photography style, this is what I did within my photoshoot.