Tenth shoot back at university (with artist research).

For this shoot, my tutor gave me the idea of shooting through paper because of how the images I had taken using the broken mirror in my previous shoot looked like it was a rip in paper. I decided that, alongside shooting this new idea, I would also take images using mirrors that were similar to what I was already doing so that if shooting through paper didn't work out I still had usable images.

Contact sheet from this shoot:


My images:


One thing that I know I would definitely improve next time is the lighting on the paper I have shot through - the lighting I have used has created a slight gradient which is not what I wanted, I wanted a block of colour. This was caused because of me not having as much time to set up the lighting as I thought I did - I had figured out how I wanted the background to look but the model came earlier than expected. When we got back to the studio, I set up the light for the paper and it seemed like it was fine when I took a test picture:


This is how the image turned out, so I thought it was fine to take my images, but I know for next time to make sure I have the lighting ready for when I shoot. I am overall really happy with the outcome of this shoot because this was my first attempt at doing something completely new and so I knew it would involve a lot of learning in the beginning. For the cut out shape, I drew around the mirror I had previously used because I wanted something to start with and then cut it out with a scalpel to give a really refined edge.


The images that I have achieved from this shoot reminded me of an artist I had seen before, called Scott Hazard. In these images from the project "Photo Constructs", Hazard has created "a space for the eyes to linger in each image" (Hazard, S) because of how the viewer's eye first sees one layer and then the next in which vision becomes tactile. Differently to Hazard, I have created my "layers" physically as I have cut out the shape for my portraits which work really well as it creates confusion to the viewer as it is not instantly clear that the image has been created by shooting through paper.


I created this edit really quickly on Photoshop to see what the image would look like if I had lit the paper evenly without the gradient and I think it works so much better. I did this by selecting the mirror portion of the image, invert selecting and filling in the paper part with one block of colour. One thing I do not like about this image is how I have lost the effect that the paper had as it gave it a slight blur between the paper and the model/background which looked interesting as it created the layers.

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