Initial Contact Sheets

For this photoshoot, I went to 2 different locations. I went to a spot up in St Lawrence which I knew had abandoned buildings and abandoned tunnels, I thought that these two features of the location is great and links to Jamel Shabazz’s approach as there is graffiti and abandoned scenery being used in the background. As well as the spot in St Lawrence, I also went to Les Quennevais. I wanted to put my own twist on this photoshoot and do it differently to Jamel Shabazz, my aim for this photoshoot was to capture two different models wearing different brands, and emphasizing the brands in the images. For this photoshoot I used a tripod as I was in some of the photographs and I took 635 images in total.

Selection Of Best Images

Photo 1 – Unedited

Photo 1 – Lightroom Adjustments

Photo 1 – Photoshop Manipulation

Photo 1 – Final Photo

Photo 2 – Unedited

Photo 3 – Lightroom Adjustments

Photo 3

Photo 4 Unedited

Photo 4 – Adjustments In Lightroom

Photo 5 – Unedited

Photo 5 – Adjustments In Lightroom

Photo 6 – Unedited

Photo 6 – Adjustments In Lightroom

Photo 7 – Unedited

Photo 7 – Edited In Lightroom

Photo 8 – Unedited

Photo 8 – Lightroom Adjustments

Photo 8 – Final Photo

For most of these photographs, the editing process was roughly around the same for each one. I increased the vibrance in most of the photos to get the retro / film camera look which Jamel Shabazz has in most of his images. The photos were taken on ISO 100, to get the most amount of detail and for the photographs to be fully in focus, the lighting used was natural lighting – no artificial lighting was used as the sunlight was more than enough on that day. On some of the photographs you can see that there is a motion blur of both the models heads, this was able to be done with the use of a long shutter speed, a longer shutter speed meant that the exposure time was longer and the models would shake their heads to achieve the motion blur. There are lots of colour in these photos which makes it stand out and makes my photos similar to Jamel Shabazz’s images. The purpose of this photoshoot was to capture modern day streetwear in the appropriate street way and then compare it with the cultural fashion photoshoots I have done previously.