LBM Project 6- 'Freedom and Liberty' Week 2

Day 1-

I found a really cool artist today called Katerina Plotnikova, she did some really magical images involving people levitating next to trees high in the sky. She inspired my first solid idea, I had a vision of creating some sort of village amongst the trees and that there would be someone leaping off the side to see what the ground below was like. Everyone in the village would be outraged that they dare go down to the forbidden ground below.

Day 2-

Today I refined my idea, instead of creating a village there would be people tied to a tree and one person would be cutting the rope and breaking free. Same concept but simplified a little.

I went round to my Grandad’s house and borrowed some old sheep shears to act as the implement the character would use to cut the rope- I felt I needed something like this as standard scissors would be much too small to draw attention in the photograph.

Shoot-

The shoot this week was quite last minute as one of my models had to cancel last minute leaving me with two shoots on Thursday- Ailsa in the early afternoon and Emily in the evening. I decided to start compositing the photos involving me and the background on Wednesday and Thursday morning so that I at least had some of the edit done. The shoots didn’t leave me much time in the day so I reluctantly had to pull another all-nighter. I just managed to finish it for the morning.

Day 3-

The image was well received and kept the attention of the people in my crit for a while, which means it was a success! One thing that Clive picked up on was the fact that you could clearly see where the inspiration came from, he challenged me to try and create images in future where you wouldn’t be able to trace the image back to the inspiration. Other than that he said to keep going the same way and challenging myself as I have been doing to get better.

After the crit I corrected a couple parts in the image that I had noticed on the print.

Final image: http://flic.kr/p/jEHeWD