Fourth shoot back at uni (with artist research).

I was really interested in the following image by Paola Rojas and therefore wanted to experiment with filling in the mirror with the model's face. I didn't want to change the mirror I was using as I wanted to be consistent with my work, so I created my images in post production.


I also found the work of Thomas Flurschuetz really interesting as he uses different parts of his body to create really abstract portraits which look really unusual:


What I plan on doing for my project is focusing on specific aspects of a person's face in the mirror, but I am going to do this in post production as I feel like this will work better than using the other side of the mirror I am using because it will be too zoomed in and I would rather have the ability to choose how zoomed the subject is. I think this will really help to progress my work because I will be able to see whether using smaller mirrors or focusing on one aspect of the subject's face works.

Contact sheet from this shoot:



How I edited my images:


To create my images, I simply shot the model as I had in my first shoot, focusing purely on her face and then 'zoomed in' on Photoshop by creating a circular selection to focus on one particular part of her face. I did this because I wanted to test out the idea of using a smaller section but really like how the mirror looks so didn't want to change this by using a smaller mirror.

My images:


Here are the images that I feel are the most successful from this shoot, as they are very vibrant and also have achieved what I intended as I have focused on the features of the model. I am going to continue to shoot in this style as I think it is working very well and need to try develop this project - I think the use of bright colours works really well as they contrast and are eye-catching. These images also work very well as they look as though they have been captured in camera and not in the editing stage; this reflects the work by Rojas really well - I feel like they make the viewer question why I have focused on specific parts of the model and not other parts (this is something I am still experimenting with and am going to continue to do). This is a major improvement from the first shoot I did in this style as I have lit the model and background equally so that everything can be seen, whereas in my first shoot there was quite a lot of dark parts. Having the model look at herself rather than into the camera works really well because it represents the narcissistic society that we live in today; by focusing on specific parts of her face it cuts off lots of other parts which creates an obstruction for the viewer as they are not being shown everything. This is a really pivotal stage of my project, because I think the obstruction aspect is really interesting and is something I can develop into other interesting images.

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