Evaluation ♥

For this brief my aim was to complete a set of 5-7 fashion shoot images interpreting the word home in whatever way that I wanted. I began by planning out general ideas that I related to the word home and then from this I thought of a starting point being ‘homeless’ and developed my ideas further. I researched into many different projects representing this idea and collected information as well as images and videos that showed a connection to homeless in diverse ways.
My final idea was to create fashion images with the intention to express how you don’t need to spend a lot of money to look good as I decided to have a budget of £5.00 on clothing that totalled this amount. I further developed my ideas by researching into different styles and ways to emphasise this idea of homeless and I thought it was necessary to experiment with the clothing items and hair/makeup styles so that I had some evidence of planning before shooting. This was a huge help for when shooting because I was organised with the different looks I wanted to show within my images. I have also explored different locations to see which would be the best for backdrops in my photographs and I decided on the location Banks after changing my ideas and gaining new ideas. Planning out sketches was also useful to me because I was able to see how I wanted my models positioned and posed in my photographs. Personally, I feel that my work is clearly laid out and it is easy to understand on my blog so I didn’t think it was necessary to explain everything in my evaluation as this would just be repeating explaining everything I have presented.
My final fashion shoots were a success and the weather was as I hoped it would be so this was an advantage when shooting my final images. I have chosen 5 images for my final that I felt were the strongest after developing and adjusting them slightly on Photoshop. I have included screen prints to show exactly what I have altered on my photographs for them to look this way.
Some problems occurred whilst planning out my work for this blog, unfortunately my original model Natalie wasn’t able to attend my final location shoots on the day that I had planned so I had to use another model, my friend Charlotte who was very eager to help out. I don’t think this was a major problem though as she was just as confident as Natalie for my experiments and I genuinely think Charlotte was a good choice for modelling in my final shoots. I also had some problems with the lighting as some of my images appeared slightly too dark but after using Photoshop to adjust this problem, I managed to improve the quality of them.
Overall, I am generally pleased with my outcome, although my final images don’t clearly show the idea homeless, I have explained my intentions and the reasons behind my fashion shoots. If I were to do this work again, I would experiment more with the lighting because I was unsure on the day of shooting and relied upon my assistant a lot when I should have been more organised with knowing this myself.