"A portrait is not a likeness. The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion. There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth." - Richard Avedon

Wednesday 31 March 2010

Evil Being

The following images are my five favourite from the shoot. I feel that this shoot went really well and I am really happy with how the images turned out. I am feeling more confident in the studio now and I think that this shows in the photos which I have taken. To see the rest of the shoot click here.
I feel that these images have a great eerie feel to them and I have definatly achieved what I originally set out to do. The model looks evil in these images, but not so much that it made her look ugly. I used black eyeliner and eyeshadow on the model around her eyes and on her cheek bones to make her look darker. In photoshop I then darkened the black make-up further as the light made it look a more brown colour than the dark black that I wanted to achieve. The only thing which I change on these images was the contrast and the saturation. First I desaturated the images to make the models skin to make her look more lifeless and I then increased the contrast too make the images darker as the studio light made the images look slightly lighter than I wanted.

Taken: 11th March 2010

Taken: 11th March 2010

Taken: 11th March 2010

Taken: 11th March 2010

Taken: 11th March 2010