Work Diary - Shoot 9

Evaluation:
The main objective behind this shoot was to get blank images of a plinth in which I could superimpose the images I took in an earlier model shoot in the studio. Thus re-creating the image taken by the photographer Bob Carlos Clark from his book 'The Dark Summer'. During this shoot I decided to use two lights sources. An on camera flash and a still light off to the side and high up. This created some interesting shadows on the plinth and also matched up with the lighting in the original model shoot. This then made combining the two images easier because there was less manipulation required to make it look like the model belonged in the image. The end resulting plinth photos were very interesting and I feel as if my own re-creation of the image was very close to the original image originally created by Bob Carlos Clark. Even though the model photo I have is not naked she is wearing black which does follow lots of his other work.

The model was shot in a studio using one Bowens Gemini 500 using a snoot to make quite a hard directional light. The camera was set to 1/125th second at f2.8 ISO640.  The plinth was shot at night using off camera flash and 2 Pocket Wizards with a flash gun. I tried to match the direction of the flash in both shoots so that when the images were montaged together they looked part of the same scene. For my image I decided to go with a different view point rather then do the exact same as Bob Carlos to add some level of variety to the image.

This image from the same evening was shot using off camera flash and 2 Pocket Wizards with a flash gun. The flash gun was set up using ETTL. The camera was set to 0.5 second at f2.8. I rested the camera on a grave stone to stop any movement.

Progression:
For my next shoot I have decided that I am going to do a 'Little Red Riding Hood' shoot. This will be mostly selective colour because I think that by having just the red in colour it will create an interesting image if everything else is black and white. I plan to take the inspiration of the images and change the context and the way in which they are shot and put it into a different environment. Also for my shoot I plan to go for a more atmospheric shot where as the below images are less subtle than the images I plan on doing. As I plan to do my images in a forest, my images will be landscape rather then portrait.  The images below are portraitures and I hope to alter this slightly by concentrating on landscapes.

Here we see a rather bloody version of red riding hood in which creates a sense of fear in the viewer of the image.  Whereas in theses image there is a rather obvious fear, I plan to get my fear from the atmosphere of not being able to see what is there leaving it to the mind to some how fill in the blanks with your own worst nightmares.

This image depicts a rather gothic image of red riding hood which make shows a rather interesting take on the typical story of red riding hood. This image brings in a form of religious link to the old masters by the mother and child but whereas the old masters images have a Christianity feel about them this image goes in the opposite direction and has a slightly more satanic feel of the image.