Sunday, 2 March 2014

LBM Project 5- 'Contrasts, Contradictions and Juxtapositions' Week 2

Day 1-
More research

Day 2-
Today I had a chat with one of the tutors about my ideas; it was very helpful and enabled me to take my idea a bit further than it was before.
I had just discovered the artist Brooke Shaden and had fallen in love with her way of thinking so I listened to some lectures by her discussing the topic of creativity.

Photoshoot
The photoshoot went well, Luke was very cooperative with the whole standing-in-freezing-water thing and because I had done sketches beforehand I nailed the angles and got all shots I needed in not too much time.
I made sure to dry Luke off and clean him up afterwards, we then went back to my house and had coffee to warm up

Editing
I pulled an all-nighter to finish editing the image, this was probably the most complicated edit I have done so far.
During the editing process I came into a few problems with the posing; Luke’s legs were open when he stood in the water but his tied up legs were closed and his t-shirt was not correctly obeying gravity. I managed to overcome these problems using clone stamping and liquefy- but I must look out in future for little inconsistencies between the shots I get in order to save me time in post.

Day 3-
I am very pleased with the outcome of this image; it’s probably the first piece of work that I’ve been thoroughly excited about in my photography so far.
The response was very good in my final crit; everyone seemed very interested in what was going on in the image and Tom’s response was to stick with my current attitude of pushing myself further each time. I also got asked by Tom to use the image in the course as an exemplar piece of work!

I got a very good response on Facebook later from my friends, seems like I’m on the right track!

Final image: http://flic.kr/p/jhpbBt

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