Evaluation

                                                             Evaluation:

Throughout this project I have experimented with a vast amount of experimentation and different ways of shooting.  I feel I would have liked to have continued with the portraits and use of jewelerry rather than just still life images of necklaces but I think the images have turned out quite nice with the simple use of just natural light and a black piece of material.  I have used multiple edits in Picasa such as 1960's, lomo and black and white.

The portraits which I started out doing with this project which was a continuation from the last project as I felt I hadn't had enough time in the previous project to experiment further with lighting and poses in the studio.  After the Freeform project I continued shooting portraits in the studio but trying to add alot more glamour to them with extra amounts of jewels and make-up.  After shooting a few portrait shoots within the studio I had work experience for two weeks which set me back quite a bit.  I therefore decided to continue shooting something vintage by photographing still life images of the jewels used in the original photographs with my model in the studio.

I started off with pretty basic shots of the jewels just using window light and not really thinking about the backdrop or any sort of composition as I have never really been into still life photography and didn't really see the point in it.  I then started to research jewelerry advertisement images and they seemed to have good lighting and good composition.  So I started to think about composition, use of the frame with the necklace and the lighting and how the effected the images atmosphere.  Near the end I researched the use of a cute animal to grab the audiences attention and tried using my cat as a prop which didn't quite work the way I wanted as she wasn't a jaguar cub.   I then thought of adding wording into my images like the research I did where the advert speaks to the viewer and draws you in, but I felt this would cram up my images too much and that the wording has to clever and concise which with the project now at an end I felt I did not have enough time to do this.

I chose not to use any vintage editing software or processes for my finals as I felt that the images looked a little un-professional and tacquay edited to look vintage rather than just being vintage or photographing something that is looking vintage.  I chose the portraits to be in black and white because they have an atmospheric look and create a strong defined contrast between the three images.  I chose to create the images into a triptych as I felt they look stronger as a three rather than being stand alone images.

I aimed to experiment with some things which I didn't get around to in the end because of time constraints, but I feel that overall I enjoyed this project and will still continue to experiment with different ideas for portraits in the studio as I want to start getting more adventurous and produce more glamour/fashion photographs.