Work Diary - Shoot 12

Evaluation

Carl Kleiner, again, inspired this shoot of mine. I didn't capture many straight images, because they are all photo manipulations. However, I believe the 3 images that I did create are effective interpretations of this photographers work. I used his macaroon piece as inspiration, along with his Ritz piece. In shoot 2 of this project, I used his Ritz piece as inspiration for one of my M&M photographs, which is something that I wanted to develop further with real people and different items of confectionery. I used Danielle, and made her hold her fingers up either side of her head so I could add in the Starbursts, as if they were jumping from each finger of hers, creating a regular pattern with the colours. I was also pleased with the outcome of the photograph I used to add two individual images from my exam into the frame of her glasses. This is creative and unique because it suggests that all Danielle can see is sweets, as her mind is currently being taken over by sugar. I thought the surreal element of this shoot was successful and concludes the themes in my pattern project sufficiently, as I have explored various methods of creating patterns in photography along with developing successful outcomes; such as this one.

For this piece, I used the macaroon shot of Kleiners as inspiration. The man in that photograph holds his hand out, whilst a photoshopped tower of macaroons float up from his palm in a small but neat and eye catching pattern. I used Danielle's finger for this, having her hold it up tall and straight whilst she was looking at it, where I then added in my own photoshopped tower of Liquorice Allsorts floating up and out of the frame in a random pattern. As I have used the advertising theme often in  my work, I thought this was also extremely appropriate, I have displayed nearly every assortment of this candy that you can find when purchasing this packet of sweets. I like the touch of colour that these sweets provide to the composition, as everything else is extremely unsaturated and quite cold. The pink, blue, orange and yellow additions make this piece pop, and also provide a focal point for the audience, similar to the effect that a selective colour print technique can give.