Here I went into the studio to take some portraits of the model, most of these portraits of the model show that the model isn’t really posing and is simply just smiling, however when taking these photos there was a dark shadow left behind the model and I had to use photoshop and Lightroom classic to get rid of it, simply by asking AI to select the background and leave the model out, then I was able to change the hue/ saturation of the background, I turned the saturation all the way up so that the background was fully white and no shadow was showing. I had to repeat this for each photograph, due to the shadow overpowering the photo. I also did the basic editing changing the levels and adjusting them to make the photo look more coloured and bright.

If I were to redo this photoshoot I would have simply make the model sit a little bit further away from the back wall as that implemented in the shadow being quite dark and powerful and I would also like the model to do a range of poses and less portraits that look quite boring and simple, this would help spice up the photograph and make it more original, as from my inspiration photos the models aren’t just taking basic portraits, the model is doing a certain face is is standing a certain way which makes the photo look different and unique. I do also feel like these photos may have been slightly over exposed as they look really bright and have quite a hard light shining on them. This can be fixed in photoshop as I can control the levels of the photo but it can be more difficult due to changing the hue/ saturation of the background interfering with the model. I did manage to get a few good photos but I would have liked to have captured are with either the same or different model wearing different clothes to make it stand out more and make it less obvious that it is the same model. I will be doing some experiments with these photos to see if I can capture and create any photos similar to surrealism and how that can help to make the theme of union come to life. My main goal is to try and implement the idea that everyone has a life and everyone is living it. We only live once and people make mistakes as its part of learning and living. I tend to go by with the key word ‘sonder’, meaning everyone has a problem going on in their life but some choose to hide it and others don’t, you cant always know that someone is fighting a battle especially the people you don’t know and the people walking past you the street every day. I’m trying to represent this word with my photos by showing that the model can feel a certain way in one moment and feel different the next, for example when editing these photos together I will be putting a portrait of the model as the man focus and then picking a suitable photo I took to go on top almost as if the model is standing n herself, both these models may be feeling a different type of way and each photo was taken as the same time within a space of minutes. It just shows that peoples feeling can sometimes be over looked and not taken into consideration.

I do think that this photoshoot went well as I was able to capture a decent amount of good photos. Although these photos are really basic, this will allow me to edit them with different colours and graphic design, for example I really like the threshold filter as it makes the photos look a lot like Andy Warhol’s photographs. I can also make them more original to me by making the photos into black and white whereas Warhol makes his photos stand out with a pop of colour. I can also experiment with the blending tool and put my photos on top of each other and select a certain blending mode, this will make my photographs look quite interesting and different. Overall, this photoshoot went quite well but I did do a mistake with having a shadow present in the background which makes it really difficult to focus on the subject (the model).