Bibliography

Auxiliary Magazine, 2013. Nevermore (viewed 20/10/2015) Available from:http://auxiliarymagazine.com/fashion/2013/11/fashion-editorial-nevermore/

HUNGER TV, 2011. MYTHS, MONSTERS & LEGENDS: RANKIN & DAMIEN HIRST (VIEWED 20/10/2015) Available from; http://www.hungertv.com/art-culture/feature/myths-rankin-and-damien-hirst/

(Viewed 20/10/2015) Available from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scream

HIRST, RANKIN, 2011. Myths, Monsters and Legends. Rankin Photography.

Post Production

I shot all of Nicole's images in black and white but once saved they went back to colour. I edited my images afterwards on Camera Raw and changed these images back to black and white:

For Taylor's photos, I put them on the 'Sunlight' setting and then edited them to:

• Temperature: 5500
• Tint: +10
• Exposure: +0.15 
• Contrast: +10
• Highlights: +11
• Shadows: +19
• Whites: +5
• Blacks: -10
• Clarity: +10
• Vibrance: +10
• Saturation: +8

 

   

Moodboard

This is my mood board for my photoshoots. I chose mainly black and white images as I want my shoots to be quite dark, even the one that's in colour. The images that are in colour are very natural or have red in them. This is because the model for my colour shoot has reddish hair.

'Language' Mood Board

During this session we were told to create a mood board based on a random word. We got this word my closing our eyes and opening a dictionary. My word was 'Language' so i went through different magazines looking for images that I thought could represent this.

This is the mood board that I came up with first. I mainly used images that has text on the (some in different languages and some with unusual poses to reflect the idea of body language.

This was my final idea for the mood board. i removed some of the images as I preferred the ones using darker colours.

Final Shoots

For my final shoots, I decided to use Nicole and Taylor from my class as my models. I decided that I wanted a black backround for both of my shoots as I wanted the black and white one to be dark and felt that Taylor's hair stood out more with a black backround for my colour images:

I used silver reflectors and used black polyboards for both the shoots to help with contouring and shadows. Overall, I took about 200 photos for both shoots and had a lot that I liked but didn't get to use.

Practice Shoots

For these shoots we decided to practice on each other and try out different lighting techniques.

We tried out different poses using the different reflectors and trying out the polyboards as well. 

Ethics of Post Production

Retouching photographs has actually been happening since the 1860s. The terms 'airbrushing' comes from when people would actually use a brush to edit photographs. An example of some early retouching can be seen in George Hurrel's 1931 photograph of Joan Crawford:

Every image that we see is retouched even if this is just adjusting brightness and contrast. 

Some images that we see are extremely edited. An example of this is this image of Madonna before and after PhotoShop:

There have also been beauty advertisements that have bee banned due to over editing. An example of this is this Dior campaign, which was banned to to editing on the eyelashes and as said to lie about what the product being sold could actually do:

This campaign, by make-up brand Make-Up Forever, claims to have no retouching. Although there may not be a lot of editing, it's still very unlikely that the contrast and brightness hasn't been adjusted.

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