Fashion on Location

Model On Location 

In this workshop a former student, Talia White, who has gained publicity due to her fashion photography and has had her photographs printed in popular fashion magazines, such as Vogue, came to teach us for this workshop. The workshop was called Fashion on Location, Talia talked to us a bit beforehand about what she does and how she started doing this. Afterwards she took us out in 3 groups of 4-6. The first group photographed the model in a t shirt and flowing skirt in an area where there were flowers. The second group photographed the model in a dress whilst she was sitting on a bench. Finally the third group, which I was in, photographed her in jeans and a leather jacket whilst on stairs and in front of a cracked painted wall. Before this workshop I had thought briefly about a models clothing and scenery and that they should go together, but after this workshop I feel as though I'd feel more confident in the future about matching clothing and locations.

I narrowed down the photographs I took down to these four as I think they work well together as a series, with two being landscape and two being portraiture and each of them being different angles and poses and also for a pair having the same background. They also work because there's a range of full body shots, which shows off the clothing - what the shoot is about, and there's a close up head shot. The weather that day was overcast and not sunny at all, which works in my favour as the clouds act as a diffuser. All we used was one reflector which one person would hold as we were taking photographs. I think I was fairly confident in this workshop as we all talked with Talia and the Model whilst taking the photographs which didn't make the workshop awkward or uncomfortable and which led us to ask the model to do different poses and ask her to sit on the stairs, I am pleased with the photographs that I took. I think when I was taking the photographs I thought about them quite carefully, and took my time to get the composition that I wanted, instead taking loads without thinking about composition. 

I edited the photographs on Photoshop. I added actions when editing these photographs as our tutor was showing us how to edit the photographs in similar ways to make the photographs work as a series, using actions also helps with precision and timing as it is quicker to use actions then go through 5+ different stages on each and every photograph. I used the action Honeysuckle on all of the photographs but adjusted the opacity differently on each of them. I also used skin smoothing to remove any spots and blemishes and on the first photo I used the clone tool on the door in the background to remove a sign that wasn't very appealing. Overall I am happy with how this workshop was put together and went. I am also happy with the outcome of my photographs and think they work well as a series, which is what I was looking for.