#clean white

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clean white studio continued

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Clean White

Below are the images I liked most from my clean white shoot. This was my second studio shoot for the brief and it was more put together and planned compared to my first shoot, I was hoping for a third but there were some issues surrounding Covid-19 and now the lockdown, so for the time being I will be working with the images I liked most from my selection!

This first image is the one I liked the most in the way of “authentic”. As a bird watcher, Mark will often spend time looking up into the sky to watch, at this time of year, geese, flying. I really like this image but I feel I could have focused on his face a little bit more instead of the hands and equipment. I put the image through some basic optimisation but I forgot to sharpen the image! 

I like that in this image, you can see the equipment Mark would work with on a regular basis when bird watching, he’s carrying his scope and tripod in one hand and wearing his binoculars attached to a back strap to avoid hurting his neck. 

To me, this image fits the brief more for a “documentary styled” photo and is my strongest image for the brief. 

I like these two images because it is a different take for both of them. My initial thought process was that I wanted to capture an image of Mark looking through the scope, but I wanted the scope to be my focus while the background is blurred. I like this photo but I could have focused or turned the scope more to try and get a reflective highlight from my lights on the scope’s lens itself, after some feedback from my class and Mark himself, I feel this would have helped to make the scope stand out a lot more and would have looked a little nicer.

The second image my idea was to opposite the first: I wanted Mark to be in focus while the lens wasn’t. I liked the idea of showing how his face would respond to looking through the scope to watch the birds. I like this image a lot but I feel there is more I could have done to make it better.

The first image was one I liked while messing about with the HSL tool in Lightroom, I like to create some images where there is only one thing of colour within the image and I liked the idea of the scope being that colour focus. I also realise that I didn't get rid of all the colour but I'd forgotten to check the entire image to tirn it black and white!

The second is the one I liked for the brief, it was a different take on making the lens the focus and showing more in the background, showing more blurriness to the image. It isn’t my strongest image, I like it, I like the reflective aspects in the lens, but it’s not a strong image or close to a documentary styled image. So it won’t be used in my portfolio

The above image is a favourite of mine, I liked it more for the fun and creative side to it rather than the brief. I prefer the coloured image of this as the light reflections in the binoculars look a little green thanks to the lenses themselves, I liked how it looked and I thought it was pretty cool. I enjoy imagery where there are reflections like this and it almost looks like eyes within binoculars. This isn’t a documentary styled image it’s more of a creative attempt, I wanted to capture an image where the binoculars had the reflections of the studio lights I was working with, and I captured it rather well. 

So while this doesn’t fit my brief at all, I liked it too much to not upload it to my Tumblr.

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Clean white Shoot 2

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Nick Knight

Nicholas David Gordon "Nick" Knight, was born on the 24th of November, 1958 and is a British fashion photographer as well as being the founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. Knight was born in Hammersmith, in London.Knight studied photography at Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design and published his first book of photographs 'Skinhead' in 1982 when he was still a student at the school. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of portraits for magazine's fifth-anniversary issue. 

Karen Elson Sep 2008 

VOGUE UK September 2006│Gemma Ward

“Lady Gaga” 2009

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Clean White 

First proper attempt at taking photos for the clean white brief. I found that I was able to get the right exposure quite quickly, which really hand’t been the case the time before. The background was exposed to f/11 and the model to f/8, and I used a softboft directly in front of the sitter. 

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Clean White Practice

We tried to have some practice  with clean white before the real shoot, below is one of my edited images :

I like this images as a first attempt because it the whites are really white and there are deep blacks, however I do not like the pose of the model and is something I need to improve on next time. In addition to this the background it not uniformly light pure white  and there is a small error in the bottom right of them image, which I cannot have in my final. Next time I want to maybe add a key light to brighten the model. 

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Clean White Evaluation

For my clean white, I feel as though I executed the brief very well over all.

With regards to the technique, I feel it was very similar to the original, and I put a lot of work into studying the techniques of the original photographer in order to get my version looking as authentic as possible.

Technique-wise, I am very pleased with the lighting and composition overall, as the background is very evenly white, with absolutely no spill onto the subject, which gives the image a much more professional, high quality look. The composition is very good, I spent a great deal of time with my model and other classmates to ensure that it was as close as possible given the length of time that was spent in the studio. The only drawback I can see if I was to redo this shoot was I would rather the pose was a little more natural, but given that the original was taken as one of a series of natural portraits, and mine was a deliberate imitation, it is always going to look slightly more rehearsed.

In terms of my lighting and flagging, I am very pleased with the shadow which falls onto the arm, as I feel it helps with the crop. However, I would like if the shadow beneath the chin was a little thinner in order to show more of the neck as in the original photo, however I tried several positions of the light and this was the one which turned out closest, as other positions affected my catchlight badly. In future I will consider using a reflector to reduce this. One of my favourite aspects of the image was the tonal range, particularly the tones of silver and grey that appear through the hair that’s falling over her shoulder.

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