new projecttttt.

Starting research for my confirmatory stage project, portraits! feeling quite excited about this, got quite a few ideas, cant wait to see where it ends up!

sheepskin in the woods.

I wanted to do a male fashiony portrait shoot and my other half needed some pictures for his fashion blog.. two birds with one stone! I went in the woods with my digital Polaroid, edited them on Photoshop and this was the outcome. I like the slightly grungey feel to the images. Also, great place for a shoot!

To see the fashion blog, visit http://gowanclarke.blogspot.co.uk/

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sketchbook examples.

pierced composition.

Here I was exploring tattoos and piercings with portraiture. I used a Pentax K1000 film camera to capture theses images and then I sellotaped the film together in a specific sequence which gave slight lines through the image which added nicely to the feel of the piece. I tried to portray an insight of the character within the image, the tattooed and pierced person isn't in and shouldnt be put into one catagory.

marked faces.

Here I used a Pentax K1000 to capture images of the models face pressed against perspex. I used single lighting and I over exposed the images slighty to pick out the lighter parts of the image more. I then developed the film and scratched into it with a pin and sandpaper to suggest emotion on the outside. I like these images as they represent raw emotion, like the brains inside out. I feel emotion is the main factor in a good portait.

tattoos and piercings.

I was doing a body parts project and I went down the route of body adornment. Here I used a Pentax K100 film camera to take images of tattoos and piercings. I used just one light so it looks like I'm coming out of the dark to fit the stereotype of the type of people who have tattoos and piercings. I chose what parts of the body were seen to get the best composition visually. Because of the darkness, I feel it gives a sense of vulnerability to the pieces.

portraits.

Here I used a digital camera to capture these portraits. I used strip lighting with a white background to create lighter images and used a front view and a side view to tell more about the character. I feel each set of images has a persona, an inkling of  back story. These portraits, with the lighting, make the characters vulnerable and more susceptible to be read into.

emotion heads.

Here I experimented with portraiture and emotion through different medias. I used a digital camera to capture both images of the model and of the woodland scenery. I chose tree's that were leafless to portray darker and deeper emotion. Then I used Photoshop to merge the two together. I specifically used the head to merge with the scenery as it suggests emotions going through the head.

fashion portraiture collaboration.

My aim for these images was to introduce fashion into portraiture. I was doing a location project and thought I'd mix it up by putting people you wouldn't normally see in a certain location, within that location. I used a digital Polaroid camera to take these and used Photoshop to crisp up the colours. I like the kind of 'Alice in Wonderland' feel to these images, the vulnerable girl in the forest.

blurred portraiture.

For this set of images I experimented with a range of pop socks over the lens of the camera to see how it effected the end result, I found the best one and these were the finished images.  I liked the blur but the images were coming out too plain so I used red lipstick so the image had something to break up the plainness. I used Photoshop to make the colours more crisp. I chose to do this as I wanted to do a different take on portraiture. In my opinion emotion and feeling are the main focus in portraiture and with the face being blurred, the image is stripped back, the focus isn't on the facial features, but on the emotion being portrayed.