For my second final image, I have chosen this photo by Andres Serrano. The image is taken from his series of photographs 'The Morgue'. They investigate the idea of death and our relationship with it. I chose this particular image as I particularly liked the way in which the light interacts with the subject and their veil it is reminiscent of Italian baroque painting.
In order to create this shot I used a large overhead softbox set to F16, which was directly over the subject; placed lying down on a table. I did this to create a hard-ish glow over the subjects face. It was placed directly above the model to avoid any shadows being cast on the face. I used the black backdrop to mimic the same as Andres Serrano's.
The framing of the photo was taken crouching down directly in front of the subject, with the subjects chin marginally cropped out, encouraging my models facial expression to be kept to minimal and using the original image as reference. All images were taken on manual exposure, F16 and the shutter speed at 1/125.
During editing, I cropped the frame down slightly to ensure it was as close to the original images framing as I could effectively achieve. I also slightly straightened up the image on Lightroom, to create the same angle of the subject. I then experimented with adjusting the reds in the subjects skin and adding the slight affect of slight blur on Photoshop.
Over all I feel this was a successful echo, however, if I re did the image in the future I would ensure the cloth was evenly distributed and falls straight down as it does in the original image.
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