I took 48 for my second photoshoot and I narrowed it down to editing 10 images.

Editing on Lightroom

I have edited these images also very similarly to my first photoshoot where they are all in black and white with strong white and black colouring. I have got one final image in colour which I will use to experiment with using when I am mounting my images.

Photoshop experiments and editing

On photoshop I will be adding text on top of my images. To do this I have separated my photoshoots and created two sections using feminism and consumerism. For photoshoot two I have linked it to consumerism and the thoughts that people would think about someone who is shown to be an over-consumer. The words and symbols I will be using are:

‘Consumer’

‘$$$$’

‘greedy’

Originally I was going to go with the Barbara Kruger style of displaying text, and I tried different colours. I decided that I should separate the people I have used to take images of and use different text to display the ‘Consumers’ and ‘Feminism’ so I decided to use large, plain black lower case letters with no border. I have done this because the large, lower case letters because the largeness of the text symbolises the need to get something but the lower case represents the calmness and casualness of wanting to buy it.

Final images for photoshoot 2 on photoshop:

For my writing on top of my images I have used a mixture of phrases, symbols and words. the phrase ‘I need this’ is used to create two different views, one being something she wants to buy which she thinks she needs, the other being a relationship where she feels as though she needs someone, which you can link to a feminism side of consumerism. The next thing I have used to go on top of my image is the dollar symbol repeated ‘$$$$’. I have done this because I feel it created a strong vision of spending money, impulse buying things as there are no words used and just big dollar symbols that are in your face when you see them, which is like impulse buying when you see it, you want it. The final word I have used is ‘greedy’. I have used this word because an outside perspective where someone is not an over-consumer, they can view consumerism and over buying as greedy. I think this is a good word to use as its not a nice thing to call someone yet people will call someone that anyway,

Comparison to Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer used large text on billboard to represent her work but I have used large text over a portrait picture. I have used phrases, words and symbols to represent consumerism and feminism in this photoshoot which could have different meanings for both terms. ‘I need this’ is a phrase I have used on one of my images which can be meant in two different ways, a consumer way in needing to buy something, then also a feminist way where she could be needing a relationship, which is something Jenny Holzer has done before with her work.