Rachel Graves
Rachel Graves' shoot is based on the link between the domination and exploitation of women, and the domination and exploitation of animals. Animals and women are objectified in similar ways, this is where I created the link between Graves' project and my own. My shoot is the effect of self-consciousness on your emotions. How society forces you to feel bad about yourself and how this can affect the way you feel. Graves' images are diptych therefore to link my images in I made my images diptych too. The subject of her images are different to mine as the makeup in the first image is to create an animal and her second is to wipe it all away. However to recreate them in my own way I did a full face of makeup in my first because to me this represents the mask worn to cover self-consciousness. In my second image the makeup is smudged to demonstrate both crying and removal of the makeup in order to demonstrate how the natural face can affect self esteem.
To take these images I used an automatic camera, this meant that I couldn't adjust the ISO, aperture or shutter speed. However the images had no noise and there was a shallow depth of field as the foreground/subject was in focus. On some of my images I used flash, this created a clearer and brighter image, however some had higher saturation/warmth which I didn't want in my images. The shoot didn't really work the way intended due to lack of natural light. When I took the images to edit them I cropped them all down to the same size and to create the diptych I added two images on to one canvas. On some images I increased the brightness and contrast, this slightly enhanced the images. My final edits are below.
To take these images I used an automatic camera, this meant that I couldn't adjust the ISO, aperture or shutter speed. However the images had no noise and there was a shallow depth of field as the foreground/subject was in focus. On some of my images I used flash, this created a clearer and brighter image, however some had higher saturation/warmth which I didn't want in my images. The shoot didn't really work the way intended due to lack of natural light. When I took the images to edit them I cropped them all down to the same size and to create the diptych I added two images on to one canvas. On some images I increased the brightness and contrast, this slightly enhanced the images. My final edits are below.
For my development edits I based my shoot on Caryn Drexl's image as she created an image at the centre of self-consciousness. I interpreted the image as squeezing in the fat with the tape measure in order to show the pressures women feel to have a small waist and a good figure. This relates to the shoot above as it is emotionally moving to look at the pressures women feel... to wear makeup, to lose weight. To any woman this is a factor in their lives that does effect their self-esteem which creates emotion.
To take my images I used flash with a faster shutter speed and a medium aperture so that the foreground is a lit still image and the background just isn't seen. This to me gives more focus on the subject of my image. It also closely replicates the artists image. To edit my image I darkened out the background more so that it was a completely plain black background whilst also enabling me to show a consistency between my images. I then went on to edit my images further by increasing the contrast and on some images increasing the brightness thus giving the shadows on the skin more effect as the 'rolls' stood out more.
To take my images I used flash with a faster shutter speed and a medium aperture so that the foreground is a lit still image and the background just isn't seen. This to me gives more focus on the subject of my image. It also closely replicates the artists image. To edit my image I darkened out the background more so that it was a completely plain black background whilst also enabling me to show a consistency between my images. I then went on to edit my images further by increasing the contrast and on some images increasing the brightness thus giving the shadows on the skin more effect as the 'rolls' stood out more.