For this photoshoot, I will be taking photographs of my two friends in the studio. This will allow me to have more control over the lighting of my images as I can adjust where its coming from, the warmth of it and the brightness. I hope to create some more thoughtful and planned images instead of only relying on candid images as they don’t showcase my photography skills and camera techniques. During this photoshoot, I want to take a range of images of my friends by themselves and together. I want to ensure that when they are together in the image, they are smiling and looking happy to convey the tone of their friendship and in the images where they’re by themselves, they have a neutral or slightly sad expression on their face. This is to highlight the difference in emotions they experience when together versus when apart. Additionally, I also want to get my models to recreate some of their childhood images I have taken in my previous photoshoot. For example, I will get Alannah to recreate her school photograph by getting her to tie up her hair as seen in the original image, facing the same direction, and having the same facial expression as she did back then. I then plan to create a comparison by putting her baby image and current image onto one piece of paper side by side. This will give my viewer a short insight into how she has changed over the years. Furthermore, I would also like Beatrice to recreate her childhood photograph in which she can be seen dancing with her little sister. However, as I want to show how she has changed over time, I will be getting her to recreate her sister’s pose in the image and then cutting out this new image of her recreating her sisters pose and putting it on top of the original image to create a final image where it looks like she’s dancing with a younger version of herself. Finally, I then want them to recreate a photograph of the both of them when they were younger now. This will ensure that I have shown how both of them have changed individually and their friendship as a whole.

I will then take some images inspired by the artist Bobby Neel Adams who merges images of young people with their older parents/ grandparents. I will be creating something similar to this by merging the images of my friends when they were younger with images of them now. In order to do this effectively, I will try and get the camera a similar distance away from their head as seen in the original images and get them to try and copy the faces they were pulling in their childhood photographs as closely as possible. This should help make the blending between their two faces as smooth as possible. However, one problem that may occur when trying to complete this idea is the fact that I didn’t get any straight-on images of Beatrice by herself. This means that it will be hard to make a seamless blend between an image of herself in the past and an image of herself now as it would involve me having to zoom up very close on an old image of her, which will lead to a poor quality image being next to a very sharp, good quality image. I will try and fix this problem by putting the childhood picture in Lightroom and increasing the texture and clarity although this may not fix the problem entirely.