Photo Shoot Edits (Photoshop)

(Photography and edits produced by Myself)

I can't express how pleased I am with this shoot, it definitely matches the standards or perhaps even surpasses the photography I have done throughout this course or ever! The hardest part about getting this shoot to come together was finding the location to hold it in. This was due to myself on a personal level from not having any grandparents to use their living rooms, not to mention I don't really know many elderly people and the ones that I do know of tend to have renovations and modern approaches to their homes. In addition to this, I tried to ask my friends if their grandparents had any sort of similar location but the majority said no and others felt that it was slightly intrusive, which I completely understand! Nonetheless, I hit my pot of gold and had this living room set which contained many antique items such as old photographs, porcelain objects, antique coffee tables, tea sets and much more. If it wasn't for this location, my shoot would have probably been no where near as good if say I was to just go to a furniture shop or antique shop.

   The models within the photographs were great, the both managed to relax and get into role very quickly post the shoot we did earlier on at Ravensbourne. In terms of the models' appearances, the short hair really does escalate the elderly perspective further, with minimal makeup and the cliche old women that go round to each others houses, sit around, drink tea, smoke and gossip. This encouraged me to take advantage of the objects within the room such as newspapers, tea cups, ash trays and more to really get that sense of an elderly person or any general person in their home. Considering that there were 2 models in my shoot, it made it much easier for me to show the bond between the two, but also the loss of each other at the same time. One of my top favourite images would be the one where they're both looking into the mirror of themselves as if they have to have some sort of reassurance to remember themselves. My shoot also involved a lot of gentle touching with hands, hips and general places to show the attachment to the person you love/had loved.

(Photography and edits produced by Myself)

     When I was editing the shoot on Photoshop, I wanted to add a faded tint to the images to make them look vaguely vintage and I think this came across very successfully. If I could have done anything differently, I would have liked to have experimented with the photos such as collaging, burning, shredding and much more, similarly to what I did earlier in my project for research and experimentation. If I have time, then I may see if I can get around to doing those processes and experimentations. In addition to this, I had a friend take several recordings of the models and shoot during my time photographing them and I hope to make a quick fashion documentary representing this photo shoot to add even more perspective to my work and theme for my Final Major Project (FMP). Furthermore, I plan on going out of my sketchbook and creating a board of final images and the concept ideas I had going towards final designs and ideas for the shoot to show my journey and development coming towards this point of the project.

   The next stage of this project will be fully finalising the overall look of the final shoot photographs and then selecting a final 3 images to have as the official final images. This will make my work look more focused upon and have a professional approach as I don't want to confuse the viewers and their perspective with too many. From this, I expect these images to be shown within my exhibition space along with my 2 garments, sketchbooks and perhaps even my fashion documentary, depending on how well processed it is and how much time I have to work with it. It has come to my attention that there is practically no more time to work on anything in such a great detail and it is rather sad that we are coming to the end of an amazing year, but as a fashion student, I feel that I have drastically come out of my comfort zone since the start of this course and really challenged myself to get the best results for my FMP.