Siobhan Morton

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HND1 ‘TRANSIT’ EXHIBITION QUESTIONS

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WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR EXHIBITION QUESTIONS

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Transition Exhibition Questions

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DOCUMENTARY PHOTOBOOK

after selecting my images I proceeded to edit them. I enhanced the contrast and clarity in RAW and then changed to black and white. I then used the burn tool to create vignette around each image as this emphasised the focal point. And I also cropped a few of them.

I choose Blurb to make my photobook. This website was very easy to use and will use with my next opportunity to do so. 

thanks so much to the Strathclyde Warriors Cheerleading Team for the opportunity to photograph them and hope to shoot more in the future!

soz for the long post. It was being annoying...typical

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DOCUMENTARY CONTACT SHEETS

sooooooooooooooo... this brief really kicked me. After preparing to do the club culture idea, I chickened out last minuet. I felt as though I would have been awkward to as I am a bit scaredy cat and didn’t want to go out at 4am myself and photography drunk people myself. I also didn’t think it would fit my idea as I didn’t want to disrupt what was going on around me and the way the public were but felt as though they would change the way they acted when they saw a camera.

after that, i still had no idea what i wanted to do and time was running out...very quickly. Fortunately my friend asked me if i could take photos of their cheerleading team practising at strathclyde uni. as time was running out, i decided to make this shoot my idea. it worked out in my favour as i got really good shots and was able to get my friend in her cheerleading outfit.

this was definitely one of the project i wasn’t looking forward to. I hit a wall and couldn't get any ideas down!

although this wasn't as planned as i would have hoped, sometimes you ned to just take the chances you get and it could work out in your favour!

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FIRST DOCUMENTARY IDEA

here is my powerpoint for my first documentary idea

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FINAL ADVERTISING METAPHOR

Here is my final print for advertising metaphor. For editing, I just clone stamped out the lines of where the metallic card met and also make the background black. Used curves and layers to make the milk more white.

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ADVERTISING METAPHOR CONTACT SHEETS

I found this shoot really difficult at first as I was using blue metallic card. I wanted to try blue to add some colour to my image and through it would bring some contrast against the glasses full of white milk. but I then realised it wasn't capturing the reflection as well as I hoped. I also didn’t buy enough card and could see the edges of the paper in the frame.

I went to Paper Chase to buy more metallic card and came across a silver/mirror effect type of card and decided ti try that out instead.

During shooting I had to be aware of any kind of surroundings that would effect my set up. I then ended up putting flats all around which made the card turn black and decided that this looked best.

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METAPHOR IDEA

I wasn’t really happy with my original idea as i didn’t believe it was symbolising a metaphor as much as I wanted. 

As my idea behind tropicana was health, I decided to keep the same theme and tried to think of other drinks that were good for your health. I can across this link and gave me a lot of information on how milk is very important for growing teeth and bones.

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FIRST METAPHOR IDEA

This is my powerpoint for my first idea for metaphor

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BRAND EDITING AND RETOUCHING

After trying out differently angles, I decided to use one of the images that may not have shown the most definition in the muscles but gave a the illusion of strength and was a nicer portrait out of the set.

As this image is suppose to advertising a makeup brand, the skin has to be flawless. I searched on youtube a few ways of retouching skin without loosing texture and decided to go with this tutorial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbK0QjMvt2w

I then added the brand name and embossed it to make it much punchier.

I then also chanced it to black and white as the makeup stood out much more!

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ADVERTISING BRAND CONTACT SHEETS

Here are the contact sheets from the shoot. The MUA was great and captured how I wanted the makeup to be. I ran out of time to buy a dress that was suitable for the shoot but lucky the model brought a few of her own. I tired all different angles and thought that the side lighting worked well as it showed off the definition in the arms.

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BRAND RESEARCH

I had been in touch with a female professional body builder who was interested in the shoot but then bailed last minuet!...cant trust nobody.

I then found another model who wasn’t a body builder but was still toned and fit.

I then researched how the muscles on the body moved and what was the best angles to the most definition out of the muscles on camera.

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RESEARCH AND IDEA 

As I am a fan of anything makeup, I decided to to base my Brand Idea on MAC Cosmetics.

In 2013, M.A.C release a collection called ‘Strength’ which was to promote woman confidence and to not sky away from being FEIRCE!

This campaign turned a few heads as the model is not someone you would usually see as one of their mac model poster girls. The body builder was used to convey the word ‘Strength’ but still adding the femininity of the overall portrait.

As I am for all things that represent inner strength and woman, I was very intrigued by this type of brand campaign and wanted to try my own execution of the image.

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FIRST IDEA

I had the idea of doing Tropicana as my Brand but ended up going with something different and something I actually care about as a product/brand.

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ADVERTISING BRAND RESEARCH

Some research on Advertising Brand campaigns from major brands that are worldwide

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EDITING FANTASY FASHION IMAGE

As everyone is aware, I HATE Photoshop. I am awful at it and think if I ever become a rich and famous photographer, I will be that person that has perfect images straight from camera and maybe light retouching if anything…wishful thinking eh? I’ll just pay someone to edit my photo, easy.

I think this is the most editing I have done to an image in my life. I cut out my model and placed her into the background image and matched up the lighting to make the image more believable. To add to the fantasy topic, I also added fairy dust to make image more magical. I did have mist/fog running through the image but thought that was too much!