Update

I have a meeting with the first of my models tonight, I am going to write a set of questions to ask her about herself and from the answers decide on a location that fits in with her. I will try and organise a shoot for this week or next week depending when she is available.

Proposal

Proposal – Final Major Project

For my future career I plan to specialise in a form of portrait photography so I feel that it is important to use portraiture in this project. As I am already doing a studio project I felt that using locations with portraiture would be interesting and different to my studio project. I have looked at Jason Bell’s an Englishmen in New York photographs as his project was to take portraits of English people working and living in New York. What I particularly like about his work is that he tried to photograph the subject with something that related to the person work or character. I feel that you can connect with the subject as you know a little bit about them. Magazines also use this technique when photographing celebrities.

For my photographs I plan to use only ambient lighting with reflectors as I have only used either speed lights or studio lights when doing portraits in the past. I feel this will practice my knowledge of light and how to use it without being completely in control of it. I plan to shoot in the daytime and evening as this will challenge the lighting conditions.

I plan to keep the photographs quite natural with the way the model poses and dresses, I don’t want the photographs to look forced. I want to use the beauty of the locations to compliment the model without being distracting. I plan to use locations that relate to the person, similar to Jason Bell’s work, each shoot will take a lot of planning to find the right location with the right lighting. I plan to visit each possible location a few times to choose the best time of day for the light.

My final photographs will have different models and locations to keep variety within the project. I plan to present my photographs as mounted prints and possibly a book as well.

Final Major Project

I have created this blog to show the development of my Final Major Project