Blogging

I have enjoyed using a blog for this project as it has meant that the development and documentation hasn't been so hard to get finished as little bits could be added whenevere, I do however miss being able to add things in between earlier posts- some things I didn't think about till after and wanted to add in eg clothing and location images.

Its been more fun to blog as well it has also meant that it class mates can review your work and see what you have done. This has been useful to me as some of my work I was unsure about and could send a link to friends for oppinions.

Evaluation

Evaluation

Home

When I first read the brief for this project I instantly thought the opposite; look at ‘homeless’. I wanted to look at different aspects of homelessness from locations to clothing styles. To research the clothing I observed people on the street to see the kinds of clothing the homeless wear. I also looked online for how homelessness has influenced fashion. I looked at film influences specifically Zoolander as it took homelessness into fashion. I found that a small number of celebrities have been wearing 90s inspired grunge fashion. I also took some inspiration from the boho look as it is very similar to grunge it is just more feminine.

I joined ‘model mayhem’ to contact professional models and stylists. I got in contact with a model, Kate Smith, who thought my idea for the project sounded interesting and wanted to work with me. Along with contacting a model I messaged a stylist who is a second year at UCLan, she was quite busy but agreed to help if she had time. My flat mate does styling and said that she would happily look over my outfits and help with some ideas.

I had clear ideas of what I wanted my images to look like. Originally I wanted to shoot only on location in grungy dark, damp places. However due to unreliable weather I decided that I would try a shoot in the studio as I had more control over the environment. I thought that I could construct a scene using boxes and low light to imitate an outdoor location. However the lighting got changed and the images didn't come out as well as I had hopped. Thankfully I did this shoot before the holidays which meant I had enough time to shoot again. Unfortunately the stylist was busy for the second shoot, I spoke to her the day before the shoot and showed her the the clothing I had, she created some outfits for me; my flat mate also helped telling me what styles will soon be seen on the high street.

The second shoot worked a lot better. In this shoot I was fighting against lighting as I wanted to use natural light and street lights. I wanted to use this light as it would intensify the grungy look. I struggled getting the settings on the camera to work and create bright enough images. Originally I was going to shoot this shoot on film however my model failed to get back to me so I had to arrange it last minute. This meant that I wouldn't have had time to send off the film and get it developed. The camera I had intended to use was also quite temperamental.

I feel that I developed my work to use influences from my research and show the homeless look in different ways. I looked at outdoor rough areas where a homeless person may shelter, I took influences from clothing a homeless person may wear and used clothing which would be warm yet stylish and grungy.

Sorted!

I went to Boots to get my images printed as I knew they would be of a high quality. I would have got them printed at uni however I couldn't afford it. The Boots prints look really good as the paper is very glossy. Some look a lot darker than the originals, I cant afford and don't have time to reprint the images. I feel the images look good enough and I am prepared to hand them in with the quality that they are.

Print Problems

I went to Granthams to get my images printed, however the man serving didn't under stand what I asked and I forgot to mention that I wanted the images glossy - I was to focused on remebering to ask if they could print on A3 but leave enough of a border that the image was 12inches at the longest edge. As can be seen in the image the paper quality was rubbish, also one image was printed badly and didn't have a white boarder at all along one side.

Finals

Final Images

I feel that my final images don't work work so well as a set yet they work at portraying my ideas and how I have developed my idea and left the original idea behind.
I tried to not over edit my images in some images I airbrushed the models skin, I also desaturated some and intensified the contrast. In some i adjusted the colours to make the lighting seem different to what it was originally.

I plan to get my final images printed tomorrow, I am going to get them printed in Granthams, I have printed work there before (not for photography). Last time I had worked printed there I found it had printed quite dark however that work was of a different quality.

Shoot Two Edits