Here are some of the inspiration photos that I came across, I really like these photos as they are quite unusual and unrealistic, this goes well with the surrealism theme. I also believe that this goes well with the sonder theme that I decided to look at, the idea that everyone has a life and everyone is going through something shows that we are all human. Most of these photos consists of one model doing different poses with different angles of the camera directed towards them. Most of these Inspiration photos are made-up of face portraits and full body length portraits. They are the added together to create the final piece. I really like how these photos have a sense of surrealism as there are smaller characters/ people standing on the model.

If I were to recreate these photos I would like to use the same model just like inspiration photos, although it could look quite cool to have multiple people involved in the photoshoot. First I’m going to be taking portraits up close of the models face, making sure to leave a big gap on top of the models head so that I can place things on top. I could also take photos of the model with the technique of normal portraits and add the smaller people around the models face to make the photos more unique and original to me. I would really like to recreate the top photo on the left as it seems to be a really interesting photo to take. It helps to show the emotions and the sassiness of the model, as the model is then flipping her hair.

Usually, I do tend to make my photos black and white but for this photoshoot I would like to keep my photos in colour as it helps to add emotions and shows how each colour represents a different feeling, it’s almost as if you were to capture each photograph with different colours it would give the photo a whole new perspective. I personally believe that this photoshoot is quite doable as taking these photos wont be hard to capture, though it may be more difficult to edit the photos together to have the smaller model sit right on top of the models head. I also believe that I were to have the smaller model flipping her hair in the air, it would be harder to edit in as there would be bits of the background stuck in the models hair, this could be avoided if I were to use the same background for each portrait but it also depends on how I edit the saturation/ hue to each photo.

For example, where taking the phot there might be a bit of a shadow left behind and I will therefore have to edit the saturation to full brightness to get rid the shadow, this will then affect the pieces of the background that is stuck in the models hair.

Here is an example:

Also turning the saturation all the way up to the brightest might affect the models body depending on how much light was originally used in the process of taking the photo. Here the models legs tend to blend in with the white background which makes the photo look quite unrealistic and not the best quality.

Overall, I believe that this photoshoot will be fun and challenging to complete alongside all the editing that I will have to do to match my final photos to my inspiration. I will have to do the basic editing like controlling the levelling and lighting in the photo. I would then have to merge the two photos of the smaller model and the portrait of the model together. This should be quite straightforward if the background are the same colour I should be able to just put them on top of each other and then possibly add a blending effect on top to help properly merge the photos together. If the background were to be different I would then to outline the smaller model and try and avoid capturing any of the background using the selection tool, this can be seen as quite tricky to be able to get all f the model and none of the background, I would ten place it on top of the models head and mess around with it until I’m happy with the way it looks. I do like how all of the photos are placed on a white background but possibly having theses photos placed on a different coloured background could change the whole mood of the photo, though the white does seem to keep the photo quite clean and neat, it helps to get rid of any distracting around or in the photo and therefore white is a better fit for these types of photographs.