For this photoshoot I recreated an archive image of my mum and dad in 2006 in my first ever home.
I recreated this image of my mum and dad from slightly different angles at slightly different times. I did this, so I would be able to use these images to create joiners similarly to David Hockney.
Final Images
Analysis of 1 Image
The lighting used in this image is natural daylight, which is coming in through the windows in my living room. There are high levels of control in this image, because this is a staged image, where I have manipulated the positioning and distance of my subjects, as well as myself and the camera. I have also chosen the setting of the image. However, there is slightly less control in this image with the lighting, as I am using natural lighting, instead of artificial lighting.
F-stop: f/4
Exposure time: 1/50secs
ISO speed: ISO-320
The colours in this image include black, white, grey and red. I used these colours, because the setting of my living naturally has these colours and I wanted to compare my home now in 2025, to my home in 2006, which had a green couch and a wooden table. I kept my mum in the same black tank top, but my dad only had red shorts, so they are different to the shorts in the original image. There are also lots of light and dark tones throughout this image, due to the bright lighting coming through the window in the background and the darker tones of the couch. This creates contrast in the image. There is also a lot of contrast between my image and the archive image, due to the lighting difference. There is a lot of shape and pattern in the image as well, due to the patterned pillows and blanket on the back of the couch, which creates a lot of repetition.
The composition of this image is the same as the composition of the archive image, because that is what I am trying to replicate. The main viewpoint of the image is my mum and dad, which are the two subjects. They are in the centre of the frame.
The image I have taken is a recreation of an archive image of my parents in my first home in 2006. My mum was 21 years old and my dad was 26 years old. The image I have taken presents them in our current home in 2025 ages 39 and 44. I have replicated this image to present how they have grown together and stayed unified and how their bond staying strong has allowed them to grow together and now buy their own home together. This relates to the theme of union as it shows how their marriage union has stayed strong for almost 19 years and how it has allowed them to grow individually as well as together and achieve their goals together.
Evaluation
In this photoshoot I was able to complete what I set out to do, which was to take the same photograph of my parents, which is inspired by an archive photo of them in 2006, but from slightly different angles and at slightly different times. I also felt like I recreated the image well, even though I had to change the perspective.
However, next time if I were to do this again I would focus more on my lighting, as the window in the background made the images far too exposed, which meant I had to do more editing then I would have needed. I would also focus on my camera settings in order to try and prevent this as well. There was also one image that was slightly unfocussed, so I would also work on that.