-Still life

portrait

landscape

close up

-Environmental portrait

single portrait

-True detective

a single image with atleast 3 compositions

Mini Brief One: Advertising Still Life- Sport

(advertising an object)

Mini Brief Two: Environmental Portrait- Sport

(portrait of k in football)

Mini Brief Three: The True Detective                  

(double exposure, 3 comp) 1 studio image of friend and two other photos

Still life shoot plan

For my still life, I intend to use a football top. Football tops tend to include bright, distinctive colours that are also associated with the culture of the team. I want to use a Brazil top as its the same top I will get my model to wear in my environment project. 

Here is a small mood board some teams where they have advertised a shirt in a way where they are clear to see the team yet do not require a lot of deep thought about where they are positioned. 

For both my portrait and my landscape, I want to capture the top in motion. For my portrait, I want a minimal scene with the top in the centre and a background of green and yellow which relate to the colours of the kit. I will have to edit this well in order to create a complete and professional image.

My landscape is going to be slightly different, I intend to photoshop multiple composites together. I want to use a football as an extra prop in the photo as well as more composites of the top to create a busy yet vibrant, energetic image.

Here is a top I have previously shot. I want to use the process of shooting this in my next shoot as I believe it works well and is also an alternative method of advertising the top. I believe this will work well however in a studio environment there will be different challenges I will face. For example how will the top be thrown in mid air and what angle and composition I will use in order to capture the top with the backdrop included.

Here are some photos of close ups on football tops previously shot professionally. I believe there is not much scope in the potential of this as it needs to capture a crest or something that represents the tops team. My favourite is the photo on the left, I believe it is the least bland and they have used lighting well to create a better more effective photo while representing the team (Celtic).

Elliot Wilcox is a UK based photographer who's work is orientated around portraiture primarily within sports and music. I am a big fan of his work for his combination of portraiture and colour as well as his photos having a clear goal.

It was hard finding a photographer who would use similar techniques as what I plan to be doing when shooting however I believe Wilcox does this well. His photos, shot on a variety of formats, use portraiture in order to advertise something. For example, new sports tops or clothing as seen above. I will use themes used by Wilcox in my own work in order to achieve my goal. Colour will be a key element of this as I need to make the photos fun and appealing.

Here is my intended lighting diagram for my shoot. I will be using a combination of colours in the Brazil flag (yellow, blue, green) on the background to make the photo more vibrant as well as appealing. I will do this by adding different colour gels in front of the light in order to get my end result. I am using a snoot in order to get a harsher, more direct light on the shirt which will add contrast between the highlighted areas and shadows.

Here are some of my photos from my still life shoot. By layering some of these photos together, I can give the photo a more complete look with the top looking professional too. I am not happy with the outcome when shooting as there was dust all over the sensor which is going to be very long to edit out. 

Here is an example of the dust in the sensor, this is in every photo which is a massive hindrance to me because not only will I have to edit it out in one photo, but in many photos when I layer them together.

These are the raw, unedited photos from the PhaseOne camera I used. I am including these photos on here as reference to show the post production that had to be used. Each photo uses certain elements from other photos that were shot in the same shoot to get a more complete outcome.

Here are my final images for the still life shoot. I am content with the outcome of images however I believe they could be much better. The last photo (close up) I struggled with however the photo attached here is not the fully edited version as I had problems attaching it. As for the other two, I like them however believe they could be better outside of a studio. I believe incorporating themes of Brazil and its culture would further elevate and give the photos more of a personality. These photos had to be edited quite a lot to get the final product. For example, eliminating all of the thousands of dust specs, eliminating the hanger in the photos and colour grading the entirety of each image.

Francis is a photographer from South London. I found him through instagram a while ago and have strongly admired his work, he works with local brands as well as celebrities seen above. I love the first image as it is very conceptual however I believe still counts as environmental. From the instagram caption we are told it was shot with iPhone which shows the ability of phones today.

Having included him in a past project, I couldn't not include his environmental portraits that are shown in many of his projects. He likes to explore subcultures and areas that are not publicly shown off in the media and captures it in his own light. I have chosen the photos above as they include characters that help add to the location as well as the location adding an effect on them.

Spencer is a photographer born in Kent in 1978. His work stands out to me as he uses the environment that he is in to his advantage. Some photographers try to hide the background of their images as it can make them look messy however Murphys work embraces it. Similar to Cian Oba Smith, they both try to capture subcultures to tell a story and set a scene.

Here is my mood board/ inspiration for my shoot. Common themes across these are that they aim to capture the reality of sport in England as well as areas that are not filled with opportunity when it comes to playing in professional sporting environments. All of these photos combine warm, pastel colours with a focus primarily on one sole subject. Another thing these have in common is that they are all shot in an environment that seems natural to them. What I mean by this is that the setting and location can tell us a story too, in most of these images there is little to no cost and no state of the art equipment. This can tell us more information about the subject and area swell as match the narrative of the photo.

For my environmental portrait, I intend to use my teammate of my sports team, Kay. Kay is local to Greenwich which helps me with my location shoot and also happens to be one of my teammates I'm closest with. For this photo, I want to represent Brazils football top in an alternative way. As I am unable to book a flight to Rio, Charlton park will do just fine. I intend to get a portrait of Kay using a medium format film camera. This is because it has inspired me a lot to capture a range of different photos as well as because it is a camera I want to test out and potentially buy. Having walked through Charlton park before, I had pictured this photo of Kay in the foreground holding a football and in the background, goal frames and the city of London. I believe this tells us a story as it is near where Kay grew up and also represents the love for football in south London. I am using the Brazil top as it is a very common top to find among all teenagers and people who like football. As shown below, this is what Charlton Park looks like. Behind the camera you can see the sky line of Londons business district. A portrait of my model who is a local to London will capture him in his environment he has grown up in as well as showing that he has lived in the suburbs of London.

During my shoot, I had difficulty with the lighting and them getting to work. In the end, we had to countdown from 3 seconds in order to fire them. I believe taking a variety of photos and compositions helped with this shoot. In the end, I ended up using the second photo (the landscape) as my final image. This is because I believe it is much more of an environmental photo as thee is more in focus as well as the landscape crop having more space in it.

In terms of editing and colour grading, I am happy with the outcome of these photos. Each one is edited in a slightly different style as having one final photo allowed me to do this. As you can see with the before and after, my final photo (the landscape) was overexposed in the sky. Having a lack of shots where the flash fired, I had little to no potential to pick another photo where the highlights could be saved. Because of this, I had to photoshop in 3 different clouds from 3 of my own photos.