Final images Edited

I am really happy with my final images and how it carries inspiration from ballet, harajuku girls and the Indian colour festival. 

One thing that does bother me is that my images don't really show how I set up and lit my images as i have cut out my images and placed them on photographs taken from the Indian colour festival. I think this works really well but it would have been nice to see my lighting in action. I do think my model is well lit though as the colours of the lolly, wig, shoes and bow really stands out.

My Final lighting

Here is a diagram of the lighting that I decided to use. I used 1 soft box in the centre of my model and I used a honey comb light to light up the backdrop and get rid of any shadows that could occur. When looking back at my photographs I did feel that I could have maybe used another soft box just to brighten the image even more but using the brightness and contrast settings in photoshop soon enhanced the lighting I had already set up. I really like how the colours of the shoes and my models wig really light up when the light is shining on them.

Final Images unedited

Here are my un edited images for my final shoot. I am really happy with how my photographs have developed from the first shoot I did. 

The only thing that disappoints me in these photographs is the colour of the backdrop. From the beginning I really wanted to incorporate the colours of the indian colour festival, I am going to experiment with how I could fit this in and how maybe I could use the colours to replace my white backdrop.

Headshot

Previously I felt that to make my photo shoot more successful my model needed a pink wig to make her look more the part. I tried dying a pink wig that I already had but this turned out to be unsuccessful therefore I ended up buying a wig which I felt would look better.

In the previous shoots I focused a lot on the poses of the model and the ballet aspect more than the candy aspect. When I do the shoot again I would like to try doing more close ups of my model to show off the makeup of her candy lips and candy eye makeup as I personally think these are great features to my shoot. Therefore I need to try and experiment with placing the Ballet shoes somewhere different than the feet and as I will be doing a headshot a good centeral place for the shoes to be is in the hair.
I got this idea when looking at a photo of Harajuku girls.

Practising Lighting techniques

Here are 3 examples of trying out different lighting. The 3 images are all quite different and from these I hope to take inspiration for my final shoot.

1)

The first image reflects quite a bright flat lighting. For this I used 1 soft box and 1 white umbrella in each corner. I like this lighting but I think it is quite boring and it doesn't make any of the features in the photograph stand out.

2)

The second image I tried something completely different. I used 1 spot light on my model in the left hand corner. I really like this lighting and how it lights up my models outfit and leaves the rest in shadow. I don't think this lighting will fit with what I originally proposed to do as the lighting is very dim and creates a very dark gloomy look.

3)

For my third image I wanted to bring some more lightness to the atmosphere of the photograph so I switched on my soft box that was in the right hand corner and left the spot light on in the left corner. In this image I like how the colours are lit up and the image is on a whole alot brighter but I don't like how there is a shadow on the backdrop.

I think the spot light needs to not be directly on the model and should shine more on the backdrop to light that up as the backdrop looks too shadowy in this picture.

Examples of lighting

Here are a few examples of lighting that I like and that I want too include in my final shoot.
After doing my test shoot I noticed that alot of the photographs I had taken were very flat and they didn't look like I had put much effort into them.

All of these images are all well lit and I like the way the focus is immediately taken to the main thing which is the model. I like how the lighting is even and how it also doesn't create any shadows.

When in the studio lighting is so important and is something I need to understand how to control because images can look and feel extremely different through the use of different lights.
Lighting can often create a different mood to its audience when looking at photographs. In my shoot I want it too look fun and lively, therefore the colours I am using need to be highlighted.

Practice on Barbie

 When researching I noticed that a lot of candy fashion photo shoots all of the models wear a wig. 

After looking back at my photographs one thing that put me of my photographs was my models hair. It stuck out and took my attention away from the shoes. It also didn't go with the candy aspect as my models hair was brown.

I have decided for my final shoot for my model to wear a pink wig.

I really like this pink wig but the wig I have is blonde. I will experiment on how I can turn this wig pink.

Practice on Barbie first with blue food colouring.

Turning my wig pink.