For the studio portraiture I think my favourite outcomes are the coloured lighting ones, they have a fun feel to them and I like the way all the detail on the face stands out.

Here they are in a virtual gallery.

These photos will look nice together because they both share a common shade of blue, and also have a contrasting red and green next to each other. The high amount of detail on the skin in the photos I think looks really visually effective and high quality.

Femininity: Femininity (also called womanliness) is a set of attributes, behaviours, and roles generally associated with women and girls. Femininity can be understood as socially constructed and there is also some evidence that some behaviours considered feminine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. To what extent femininity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. It is conceptually distinct from both the female biological sex and from womanhood, as all humans can exhibit feminine and masculine traits, regardless of sex and gender.

What does it mean to be feminine? Traits such as nurturance, sensitivity, sweetness, supportiveness, gentleness, warmth, passivity, cooperativeness, expressiveness, modesty, humility, empathy, affection, tenderness, and being emotional, kind, helpful, devoted, and understanding have been cited as stereotypically feminine.

What are negative feminine traits? Typical negatively feminine traits, referred to as unmitigated communion or unmitigated expressiveness within the literature, are those of being overly submissive, passive, anxious, excessively worried, dependent, fearful and also overly concerned with the welfare of others to the detriment of one’s own well-being.

Masculinity :Masculinity (also called manhood or manliness) is a set of attributes, behaviours and roles associated with men and boys. Masculinity can be theoretically understood as socially constructed and there is also evidence that some behaviours considered masculine are influenced by both cultural factors and biological factors. To what extent masculinity is biologically or socially influenced is subject to debate. It is distinct from the definition of the biological male sex as anyone can exhibit masculine traits. Standards of masculinity vary across different cultures and historical periods. In Western cultures, its meaning is traditionally drawn from being contrasted with femininity.

What does it mean to be masculine?In the socialization of masculinity, boys and men are encouraged to reject or avoid anything stereotypically feminine, to be tough and aggressive, suppress emotions (other than anger), distance themselves emotionally and physically from other men, and strive toward competition, success and power.

What are negative masculine traits? of toxic or unhealthy masculinity can include: Unconditional physical toughness. Physical aggression, fear of emotions. Discrimination against people that aren’t heterosexual. Hyper independence.

My images.

I took 220 images in total and did 2 photo shoots I have decided to only use my photos from the first shoot and I took 140 photos in that shoot.

Those are the images from my first shoot and these are my photos from my second shoot which I am not using.

These are my selected/flagged images from my first shoot.

I have edited some of these photos.

I edited all the photos of Amelie in this lighting by increasing the highlights and I made them more pink but changing the colour grading shadows and highlights to a pinker tint. I also changed the colour temperature to blue so that the pink and blue would stand out against each other. This is a before and after of 2 of the edited photo’s.

I edited these photos of Maks the same as he is also in the more feminine lighting.

 

 I took my favourite images of mine and went into power point to make them into a table with all 4 photos lined up. Amelie was my representation of femininity, I asked her to pose how women stereotypically pose for photos this is what we came up with. I used honeycomb lighting with a pink film to create a pink background behind her and then used colour gels to put over a light to create the blue on her face. I used pink and blue as they are stereotypical boy and girl colours.

 Maks was my representation of masculinity I told him to do these poses as this how i think stereotypically men would pose. For these photos i switched the colours around and had the blue in the honeycomb lighting but the pink colour gel wasn’t appearing as apparent as I wanted so I switched to red which is a more masculine colour according to stereotypes so it worked.

 

I then switched the roles and got Maks in the feminine lighting and got him to do the feminine poses and Amelie in the masculine lighting to do the masculine photos.

I then added words to the images to show stereotypes of both femininity and masculinity.

This was for femininity, I used a dark pink and smaller writing to show the positive stereotypes of women and the black large words are the negatives ones that associate with women.

This was for masculinity, I used white and smaller text for the positive words that associate with men and a light grey and larger text for the negative words.

This is my idea of trying to break the stereotypes as I have a man in the feminine lighting doing typical female poses and I have a women in the more masculine lighting doing man like poses. Amelie is presenting as strong and brave although those words associate with men and she is a female so therefore she is proving the stereotypes for women wrong. Maks is acting more feminine as he is presenting to be quite friendly looking and kind although those words are associated with women not men so he showing that men can be kind as well as females. My idea behind this was to show that by being masculine you don’t have to act like the stereotypes and to be feminine doesn’t mean you are weak.

These are my mood boards for femininity and masculinity my aim was to make the ‘masculine’ mood board very feminine and the feminine mood board very masculine.

 

 

I Started with 90 images , these photos includede close ups of peoples faces , their individual features , and larger photos such as half bodys and 1/4 body photos

I then narrowed it down to only 25 images using the flagging tool on lightroom.

My idea was to gather different features and collect them together to make one photo , taking inspiration from David Hockneys Joiner photos , and then repeat this process on different subjects to futher explore the topic of identity

RAW IMAGES FROME PHOTOSHOOT

To achieve these images i sued studio lighting and a majoritiy of the time i used Split lighting i used a darker background to help make the images look more put together in editing when they are cut and broken up. I used both masculine and feminine looking subjects to create difference in the images.

Femininity

Masculinity

The music industry is male dominated, with women and non-male artists often facing challenges in the major roles like production, song writing and leadership. Women make up only a small part of producers and engineers, not because of a lack of talent, but due to stereotyping and gatekeeping.

Sexism is still a big issue, with women often dealing with stereotypes, double standards, and even harassment. They’re judged more on appearance and personal lives than their male counterparts, which limits there creative freedom.

Despite the challenges, progress is happening. Groups like Women in Music are pushing for change, and more women are breaking into leadership and production roles. But to truly balance the scales, the industry needs to prioritize inclusivity and fairness at all levels.

Going into this project I had the idea of getting both a girl and a boy to play and create music side by side to show what it would look like if there was a ideal fifty fifty divide within the industry and that both men and women can both create music.

Here are the original photos.

I had decided to do some creative editing to them to make the photos more wacky as if they were album covers.

Here was my reference of some out there album covers that I put together myself with the album that has a red arrow pointing to it being my own cover.

Here are the album covers that I made from my images.

For this one, this album by “Tv Girl” titled “Who Really Cares” was my main inspiration, it uses pink and blue to represent masculinity and femininity.

I then took both of my same models for another shoot and decided to use pink and blue lighting to represent femininity and masculinity, when using the pink light I would have my female model sit closer to it and the camera, meaning she would be the main focus of the shot, I did this to represent one gender overpowering something, in this instance the music industry, I also did the same with my male model and a blue light.

This was the unedited outcome.

This is the edited outcome.

Final Images

Bigger Versions

My plan now is to create a zine of all these photos as I think that is the best way to tell a story with photos – since they are all edited the same way I think they’ll look really great as a well thought out and put together set.

I used my parents, teachers and random people of the street for this project since the idea of this is too be authentic so when I saw my brother playing , or my dad walking in our garden that’s when I asked them if I could take a photo I wanted these pictures to be the most realistic as possible and I think I achieved that.

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I’ve got three really effective images in my environmental portraiture, and for the final piece I’m going to have them as a triptych, A5 and all one on top of the other. I think this is the best way to layout these images as they speak for themselves.

Evaluation:

The photos have a nice vintage effect to them and go together quite nostalgically. They almost have a dulled down saturation which resembles film. They are quite simple images that just capture a random moment of skateboarders just hanging out quite serenely.

Here they are in a virtual gallery

My inspiration for this project was how women view beauty even if beauty is relative as soon as I heard the theme I knew I wanted to focus on femininity. I wanted to show how beauty can be viewed in different ways for example when I was photographing the girl playing the drums I used one of my friends for inspiration since she always says that she feels more beautiful when playing the drums. I also know how clothes can take part on how we feel about ourselves so I wanted to show that.

for this image I wanted to kind of do a tittle page that explains the idea behind the rest of the photos

For this image I tried making a contrast between things that are consider feminine ( reading, beauty products) and playing drums that are considered masculine ( playing drums)

This image the idea behind it was that women feel more beautiful when they are wearing clothes and accessories that they like.

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CONTEXT

David Hockney (born 9 July 1937)

He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art

During the early 1980s , Hockeny produced “joiner” photographs , a form of photo collage that includes cutting areas of a photo and moving/replacing it around the image.

JOINER PHOTOS

David was increasingly interested in the limitations of photography , he wanted to explore different classical techniques ad discover how they could be broken.

“Although it looks as though there’s a central viewpoint… not one photograph is taken from that central viewpoint.”

DAVID HOCKNEY

The illusion created by the joiner photos manipulates our sight and how we view the image creating a false sense of understanding. This concept i felt related heavily to the idea of identity , people see what they are shown which may not exactly be the truth.

EXAMPLE AND ANALYSIS OF WORK

In some of his later work, Hockney overlaps the images in order to create a cubist effect, Hockney believed these photos were closer to how the eye actually views the world. This sparked an interest in optics and vision , inspiring the collection ‘joiners’

Hockney originally had a slight distaste for photography , he claimed it was

 ‘All right if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed cyclops-for a split second,’ 

David Hockney

This quickly changed when Hockney started exploring different view points

Relation and insperation to identity

I felt the way Hockney choses to break barriers when it comes to perspective and how we view an image interesting and i wanted to incorporate into my project on identity. i liked his use of contrasting ideas as well but i wanted to achieve this in a more subtle way.