Beauty queen shoot 2

After doing more research i would like to go on to produce another shoot for this brief based on the beauty queen theme.

Where as i did the previous shoot in the studio creating simple studio portraits i would like to do this photo shoot on location, i would also like to use a different model for this second shoot to show a bit of variety. This idea came predominantly from my research on Melodie McDaniel, i liked the way she photographed the girls at there homes and how she photographed their personal belongings relating to the competitions, even in their homes they still performed to the camera in a similar way to the way they did on stage during a competition.

For this second shoot i would like to photograph my model in a similar way to the way McDaniel did, i will photograph the model in a relaxed home setting. I will also photograph some 'personal belongings' relating to beauty competitions. I think that this will make an interesting collection os images.

Ring flash

We did an induction with adam in another module with the ring flash, i really like the effect it had and when using it with the digital back i really liked the way our photograph looked. I had a look on google images for some images taken using a ring flash.

I particularly liked this portrait, i love the way the lighting looks as well as the way the photograph has been taken.

I am really interested in using the ring flash in my future work i think that its an aesthetic would work well within my images.

The clothes show live - Teen queen scouting stand

These photographs were just two snapshots that i took at the Clothes show live at the NEC in Birmingham on the 4th december. This is the stand for the Teen Queen competition i mentioned previously. Girls are scouted or can give their details if they want to enter, the girls are then later narrowed down to the final few who will take part. I wanted to take pictures here to try and see which kinds of girls were interested in entering, i also wanted to look at what kind of set up they had and how they were promoting it. I struggled to get close to the stand as it was very busy, and only managed to take a few pictures as you wernt supposed to photographs. The stand uses pastel colours such as pink and yellow and features the word princess, this i should imagine would entice girls to look at the stand.

The top image features a young girl looking straight on towards the camera, she looks quite young not much older than about 13 years old, she is quite fresh faced. She is filling out one of the forms to take part in the Teen Queen competition.

Teen queen

These images are taken from the Teen Queen website.

http://www.missteenqueenuk.com/

Teen queen is similar to Miss England, but is a competition for much younger girls to enter, the age range is for 13-19 years old. These photographs feature some of the girls involved in the competition, alot of them look very young. I have previously looked at the kind of women who are likely to take part in beauty competitions but after looking at some of pictures of much younger girls and even children taking part in competitions i was eager to look at what kinds of younger girls take part and what encourages them to do so.

Evaluation of mini lighting project

We worked together to create these different lighting set ups and just try them out to see how well they worked. Obviously some are alot stronger than other but i think that we all learnt something from doing this mini project in the studio.

There are a few of the techniques that we could perhaps use for future projects, and know we will be able to set them up and know what effect they create much easier than before.

Overall i feel that i have learnt a bit more about lighting, how it works and what different set ups can create in terms of different effects. I think that this was a very useful exercise for me do.

Set up 6

For this set up we used a diffuser to create a softer light on the model and to avoid some of the harsh shadows created in previous set ups. The light is even but i think its a bit under exposed.

Set up 5

For this set up we had a lamp shining on one side of her face, i don really like this set up, the lighting is a bit too harsh on one side of the face, we could perhaps of used a diffuser instead of a standard lamp. Im also not keen on the background shadows.