Work Diary - Studio Contrast 2

Evaluation

During this second shoot of contrast in the studio, I wanted to take photos other than of people's faces. This time I took photos of model's shoes, hands and half of their faces to show contrast in different ways. I enjoyed this shoot because I had to seriously think about what I was taking photographs of, and whether it was obvious as to what each image represented. In this shoot we only used a white background, as we only had a choice of white, black and brown, and we thought white would be the best for this shoot as it was the brightest background and would emphasise the model's features in the photographs. 

This is my best image from the second contrast shoot as it is showing the contrast between genders, male and female, but without seeing their faces. Instead, I have used a male and a females hand, and placed them together so we are able to see the size difference between them, as well as the overall difference of what both of the hands look like. We can clearly see that the hand with it's palm facing away from the camera is a females hand, because her nails are painted and her hand is much smaller in comparison to the hand with it's palm facing the camera.

This is my worst photograph from this shoot. In theory, I really liked the concept of showing only half of both of the model's faces, but still being able to see that one is female and the other is male. However, the photo was produced blurry which meant that I didn't focus the camera properly, and now can't use it.

Progression

If i were to do another shoot of contrast, I would prepare myself with ideas before actually taking the photos. This is because, I always quickly run out of ideas whilst in the shoot, and then only produce a very little amount of photographs, of lots of similar ones. I also would like to use different coloured backgrounds that are a lot brighter, so I could show the contrast between bright colours and dark colours with in my images too. These are some of the contrast photographs that i have found on the internet which i aspire to achieve if i ever add to this topic: