Process
For this photoshoot, I took inspiration from milk baths. I wanted to do this because they often represent purity and tranquillity. I try to create a similar effect in all my photoshoots by having this contrasting meaning of the broken and dispirited. I will use makeup to give texture to the model’s face, and then either the clothes I put the model in or, in this case, the background suggests concepts such as purity. I like adding these calming and dreamy aspects the pictures to emphasise the damage being done.
Contact Sheet
Editing
For these images when editing the one thing I do like to pay attention to and focus on would be the texture. For the concept of the story I’m trying to tell the cracking of the model’s face is a key component. Therefore, I like to make sure it’s as effective as possible. To emphaise this the key things I like to do is increase the contrast, shadows, highlights, and texture. I’ve found that increasing the shadows and highlights significantly amplifies both depth and details which is what I want.
Final Images
Evaluation
Overall, I’m not too happy with how the photo shoot came out I think I would have worked better using a bigger bathtub to have more space but I had to work with what I had access to. However, I do like the photo from the side angle where it focuses closer up to the model’s face I think it’s a little bit different compared to my other photos where they were all full face shots. I think what I could have done during the photo shoot to improve would have been to give my model more direction in terms of facial expressions and posing as I do like the photo where the model appears to be slowly submerging into the water facing straight towards to camera however I believe it would have worked much better if she had more of a deadpan facial expression.