Tuesday 8 February 2011

My Photography

I LOVE this photograph and i was given a lot of positive feedback all people for this photograph, because not only have i captured an innocent yet dark and slightly hanunting closed eye image, i composisted an open eye shot at the exact same length away from the camera as the closed eye image and the exact same part of my face. And the fact that i did something as little as lift an eyebrow and bring real warmth and and feeling into my eyes, made that image mysterious like i know something and everyone else wants to know what it is.

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This was a very hard shoot, not because of my model (my friend paige) but because it was the middle of winter (December 2009) and she was walking in water under a tunnel in a beautiful red and black maxi dress. Call me crazy but it not only tested how far she would go to help me, but it showed how far i was willing to go to make my vission of the hard on edgey fashion editorial photograph i wanted, and I got it.

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This was one of my earliest ever photographs i had taken as i was 15 when i took and edited this picture.
I basically wanted the idea of a girl from a night out getting in her shower fully clothed, i thought the clothing i chose and the fact she wore big black shades really gave the photo an edge and the water droplets look divine over the shades and almost like little tiny dimonds falling from the sky.

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My Photography; other fashion pieces


I wanted to create a strong effective editorial fashion image, with no particular story as i wanted to leave that decison to the viewers of the images..

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)


This photograph again i created in a storybook style, i used weak saturation but again strong use of contrast, and i used the storybook affect on all of this image too look more like a drawing than a photograph, that kind of illusion.

This is my favourite Alice In Wonderland Photograph i took and created. Simply because i love the contrast of the storybook background and the real life figure of the character, as if she had just got up and started walking around Wonderland. I used strong saturation and HDR which gave the background of the image the storybook look.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)


This photograph of mine is one of the favourites of other people that have seen it, and this image in particular is portraying a certain part in the story where alice just lands on the ground from falling underground. Except i stylized it to make it look more fantasy and dream like by using strong tinting of blue and saturation, with a strong use of filter effect that gives the pouring/falling illusion from her body and the cards, the cards are also slightly pixilated to give the blurred graphic effect. I find this image both beautiful if i do say so myself, exciting and captivatingly haunting.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)

This image i think looks the most professional and is the clearest as you can fully see the red paint and the contrast of the black and white background and figure with the colour block of just the red on its own as the only piece of colour really works nicely, and the look in her eyes is breathtaking.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)

This is one of the more abstract Alice In Wonderland images, with its own editorial fashion edge, and that is because i had the idea of using the famous "Drink Me" quotes from the book and the story in this photograph, and by playing a playing card in the cup i thought made the perfect effect and gave the image that spooky different edge. I used Intense contrast and blue tint to give it a fairytale night effect.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)

This is one of my three favourite images of my more fashion interpertations of Alice In Wonderland.. "In a bed of Cards" I Love this image as it is simple yet beautiful, and Ruby looks stunning.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)

This photograph is of funnily enough an ornament of a rabbit sat next to a toadstool with mushrooms and little creatures surounding it i found in my garden, with a little handle clock i have in my house placed ontop.
I felt it was a breakthrouhg at the time because the lighting went really dark as i had just got back from college so i was panicing i couldnt get a good enough shot, but the strength of my camera and the objects themselves projected really nicely on the images.
I used a Sepia effect and Adjustable Threshold in quite strongly in this image, to give it that dated look like their antique objects portrayed modernly and abstract like.

I shrunk this image and compositied onto one of the images in one of my final photographs in my college piece, but the detail on this image itself is so much better.

My Photography; Alice In Wonderland (college art pieces)


For my college art Unit 3 piece, i decided to do a photoboard of my own different photographs, using my own moderin interpertations of Alice In Wonderland, but in a kind of fantasy dream like quality. Again very abstract. In this image I used propper paint on my model (My best friend Ruby) and playing cards. Although these are not the finished photo's from my final piece (because they where created using Photoshop and compositing other images onto an image) these images are still displayed in my college art journal and these are the original edits. This image to me is very haunting as i used extreme boost of contrast in her eyes and darkened her lips and the red paint on her face and chest. I wanted this photo to portray not a story but a moment of shock.

My Photography; Abstract Portrait Shot *2


This is my second favourite image of my abstract fashion self-portraits, however for this image i decided to rotate it so its a landscape shot, and i really liked it portrayed upside down because i felt my eyes tell a story and almost express more of a story from this angle.


The simplicity of my facial expression i think makes my eyes more captivating, as on the other image they are close yet my mouth and hands are abstractly portrayed. Again i used strong contrast and HSL filter, which gave the image its dramatic edge.

My Photography; Abstract Portrait Shot *1

This particular image is one of my most recent photographs i have taken, and its a portrait of myself stylised in my own editorial fashion. I was feeling in a very creative mood and wanted to create a rather erie interesting photograph, nothing particulary inspired me for this image i just applied black liquid eyeliner, and black body jewels, and the rest was my own instinktive editing and i was and still am very proud of this shot. I used intense HSL filter in an advanced mode, however i faded it out ever so slightly because i diddnt want the image to look too edited so it would take away the detail and naturally skilled photography.


I took many before i achieved this image, but i loved my clawed hand positioning and and facial expression on this one so much it became my favourite, and i will forever continue creating more abstract fashion images like this one.