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This was my final photoshoot for my personal study, mainly inspired by Ramona Wang. I was the only subject in this shoot, allowing me to explore the themes of femininity and youth through personal experiences fully. In this shoot I focused on capturing traditional stereotypes of young females, and specifically the exploitations of them in photography. For that reason, the location of my shoot was in my bedroom, to create staged images of myself getting ready for a night out. This links to my themes because women are typically associated with looking aesthetically pleasing, and that being our only purpose. I wanted to conform to these ideas by presenting myself in a manor that is seen as feminine, while challenging the ideas around it. As this shoot can be viewed as different to my other shoots, I do not believe that the level of success comes from how feminine my models are portrayed. Rather, I want all of my shoots to be presented in different ways but explaining the same message: looking feminine has nothing to do with being feminine. In my photos throughout this shoot, I performed submissive facial expressions to link to the idea of the male gaze. Moreover, I believe that the way a female would interpret these images is entirely different to how a man would. I believe the female gaze would occur, and women who viewed these images could still potentially see me as a human with intelligence and emotions. Whereas, perhaps males would only view me as an object, and focus on the aesthetic of the image.

Similar to all my other photoshoots, I imported all my images into Lightroom and created a new folder, under the name “Personal study photoshoot 5”, to allow easy access to this shoot for future references. Again, as this shoot is a lot smaller than the rest of mine, it was easier for me to colour code my images and star them. Very quickly I was able to narrow down this shoot to the most successful outcomes that I would want to use in my photobook. I then edited the flagged images so when I create my photo book I can choose the best edited images.

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