Review

My chosen theme is contrasts. So far I have done four shoots to show this, which were; Death (to contrast the idea of life), clash of personality and location, life and death, and age.

The aim of my first shoot was to present the ideas of death. This shoot is going to go with another shoot I am going to do portraying life. I could not really show the contrast in the shoot as the contrast is shown through the difference in the two  separate shoots being put together. I did however show the idea of contrasts through the editing. I kept this mainly quite simple and showed the contrast through colour and black and white. Once the life shoot is complete and edited, the contrast will be stronger and I also plan to create multiple image edits with the two shoots.

Another shoot I done was to show the contrast between my model and the location. To show this I got the model to dress quite girly, and come to Brick Lane. I chose this location as it is very urban and covered in street art which clashes with the girly style of the model. I am happy with how this turns out as I managed to show what I wanted which was to show the model out of her comfort zone in an environment that clashes with her personality. I showed this primarily through the shoot, but I also enhanced this in editing which worked well as I strengthened the contrasts that were already visible. I do want to explore this them a bit more. 

For the life and death shoot I wanted to portray this idea through using roses. I first took photographs of the flowers looking natural and untouched to show the ideas of life and positivity. Then to show the idea of death and negativity I gradually started picking off the petals and smashing the roses up. I am happy with how this went as the ideas i wanted to show clearly come through in the shoot. During editing I have enhanced the contrast by using colour editing and layering the separate ideas. 

For the age shoot I got an baby and my nan to be my models to show the obvious contrast between young and old. So far I have only taken the photographs and not yet edited. I managed to get the idea of age across well, and it is obvious. When editing I plan on keeping the images quite natural and realistic as the contrast will already be visible.