In response to Bramante’s work, I did a photoshoot with Wiktoria, aiming to achieve a similar composition to that of her work with plastic drapings. Using this for inspiration, I hung up different coloured and textured bin liners on a clothesline, along with some plastic packaging, which I thought looked relatively similar. I cut a slit in each liner, leaving enough room for Wiktoria to be seen through it, and we experimented with different poses and angles that would work with the natural lighting.

After editing and sorting through each image, I was left with a series of dramatic, interesting compositions. My main focus for editing with this shoot was the availability of natural light in each photograph, and how it played on Wiktoria’s face and the creases in the plastic.

These were my final 6 compositions for this shoot. Each one has its own sense of mystery surrounding it, as a result of the plastic obstructing Wiktoria’s face, creating this own other world that she’s almost ‘looking through’.

For this image, I wanted to develop on simply what was already there, doing basic adjustments and only really bringing more warmth to the image.

The shoot was done around golden hour, so the natural lighting already left a golden impression on the composition, which I wanted to accentuate through the use of colour grading. I used orange tones for both highlights and midtones, not overdoing it but just enough to warm up the image, and I used blue tones in the shadows, which complimented the already blue bin liner in this particular shot. I then calibrated the colours to dullen them a bit, mainly to give the orange hues more prominence, but also to create a softer overall look.

To finish off the image, I added the vignette and used linear gradients to increase the contrast from the lights to the darks from each corner.