Studio set up-
I wanted to use the technique of multiple flash within this shoot to portray the emotions behind beauty and the serious effects that societies idea of beauty has on people. To do this I used a black backdrop because I wanted the overall feel from the photos to be dark and slightly depressing, another aspect I used to achieve this feel is only using one light box. The one light box was placed towards the right hand side of the images and created shadowing and darkness, whilst still lighting the photo enough to see the different positions the model was captured in.
camera set up-
For this shoot I used a Nikon D300S with a 28.0-70.0 mm f/2.8 lens. I set the exposure to 2.5 secs, f/8 and ISO 200. All of these setting helped with the use of the technique of multiple flash to show my theme for this shoot.
Photoshop-
I kept the editing stages to this shoot rather simple due to the fact that showing physical beauty wasn't my intention, however to show the effects of beauty and having an obsession with beauty was. Therefore I started off by adjusting the curves and levels of the image. Then I changed the saturation to the image, I did this by selecting the image tab on the top bar, then selecting adjustments and saturation. I turned the saturation down so that the images had less colour in them. I experimented with the percentages I changed each image to because I wanted to try and show different emotions and degree of influence because for some people the pressure of obtaining beauty is bigger than others.
I am happy with how the images look and feel that exploring into the effects of beauty as well as physical beauty itself was enlightening and could possibly open the door to new shoot ideas for the future.
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