Work Diary - Shoot 5

Evaluation:
This shoot was again inspired by Bob Carlos Clarke. The set up for the shoot was much like the previous shoot but this time the model was wrapped up in bandages which I died black to give the feel I wanted.  I shot these in the studio on a black background and will also be doing a church shoot at night of gravestones that I will then comp together. I don't know how it will work until the next shoot at a church but that is what I am working towards. My cousin Charlie was the model who my mum helped me get ready. I shot this at home in quite low light. The light was placed low to give a bit of shadow on the black background. I gave all the images grainy background with lots of contrast after the shoot. The inspiration for this shoot was Bob Carlos Clarke but with my photos I have slightly changed the atmosphere of the photos to become different to that of Bob Carlos Clarke. This has been done by having a lighter bandage then Bob Carlos Clarke and having a black background as opposed to his white background. For my image it creates a contrast between the background and the model allowing for a more Gothic and dark feel to my image.

So this was done in the studio on a dark textured background. I also cut out the face on this shot and made a duplicate layer on the image behind and then moved it around until I got the kind of concave empty looking face. Again I am doing all my work in black and white as this really suits the theme of horror, Gothic, creepy that I am going for.
I used a single Bowens Gemini Studio light for this shot but only used the modeling light. The exposure was 1/125th at f2.8 ISO640 I increased the clarity and contrast in Lightroom to give the final feel I wanted.

This is the image which I will do a cut out and then place on a grave stone plinth. But I have not done that shoot yet. I have again made the image grainy and added some contrast and clarity to give the feeling I want. Again with this one I repeated what i did above by getting the concave empty look in the face which I think works very well on a physiological level.
I used a single Bowens Gemini Studio light for this shot but only used the modeling light. The exposure was 1/125th at f2.8 ISO640 I increased the clarity and contrast in Lightroom to give the final feel I wanted.

Progression:

For my next shoot I plan to go to a place called Minsen chapel. I discovered this on a site which I have previously spoken about called 28 days later. While looking at photos that other people had posted it came to my mind that this would make a perfect shoot for some rather eerie photos. It looked like one of the scenes from one of Christopher McKenneys photos. I plan to go there at dusk and attempt to get some rather eerie photos with the natural light and some off camera lighting.

Here we see an image where someone has taken the photo at the sam time as I plan to. You can tell this because of the shade of the sky is still light. This goes to show that they have then decided that they are going to later in some form of editing program they are going to edit the photo to seem darker then it actually is. The method they have used is done by changing the image into black and white and then changing the colours in the image to be lighter or darker.

Here in this image we see an exact photo I would like to try and get but at a later time in the day when it is darker. I think that if I were to use a flash it would give me some interesting shadows from the tree.