This is the first photoshoot with different body parts taken and different “masculine” objects. Most of the photos had: f-11, 1/160 shutter speed, ISO-100. A low ISO was used to give higher quality photos and since we where using a flash with a box light we didn’t need to worry about having the photo being too dark or light enough but blurry as we did not use a tripod. I chose 3 images from the body parts and the items to match with each other, they needed to be good quality, have an interesting aesthetic (e.g. captured from a weird angle). Large contrast in lighting and more.

I’m trying to capture the juxtaposition between masculine features of the body and masculine objects. I will achieve this by making the photos incredibly ‘masculine’ with stereotypes like muscles, strong fragrance smell, and wires as they are usually associated with a traditional ‘mans job’. This is done to make it seem unreasonable to follow these traditions and how humans can chose there own path in life.

I was inspired a little by Claude Cajun to make the images B&W and w she composes the image (high contrast inni)

3 photos and editing process:

I chose these 3 as they are all unique and show only the body of this very attractive model. I then added a B&W filter with these settings:

I bumped the contrast a lot some of the flatter images to show more veins and muscles increasing the “masculine” look.

Now here are the object photos:

Here I put them all in photoshop to invasion all of them next to each other. Here I’m trying to communicate different masculine ideas all together, overwhelming the viewer with these social constructs.

For these photos:

I edited each one with blue colour grading for the shadows and mid tones with yellow colour grading for the highlights as its often associated with a “mans” colour, further adding to this unreasonably masculine image collection: