Photo-shoot

My favourite part of the design brief was seeing all my dress put together and planning a photo-shoot.  I used my cousin for the model and her garden which has lots of bare trees which I thought would fit into my photo-shoot theme.  At first I thought about using my dress and portraying it as ‘girly’, ‘angelic’ but then I thought how typical that would have been of me. So I then decided to contrast my dress with the darkness and have my photo-shoot at night. As the back of my dress is white leather and laser cut with the cuttings as white appliques at the front I thought this would stand out with a dark background. I also wanted it to rain but unfortunately, probably the one day of the year, the rain had decided to stop! I still used an umbrella in the shoot to give the rain effect but to also act as a shield. I used black lipstick and black eyeliner to add more contrast in comparison with the dress and had her hair back off her face to stop there from being any distractions when looking at the photographs, I wanted the model to look mysterious and edgy.

The first few shots were taken in front of a brick wall outside. I thought this would be a good idea as it is bare and just the model would be seen. Some of the shots looked really good but some of the shots had my own shadow in because of the light behind me. Also, that area lacked spacing so I couldn’t get the exact angle I wanted to get the full length of the dress in.

 

The next shots were taken in the garden. i thought about having the photo-shoot at the park or a forest but then I thought they all have trees so why not take advantage of the garden and use that, which I did. I thought it was good that the tree had no leaves as it fitted in perfectly with my photo-shoot theme; it was quite gothic and scary. Here there was no lighting only the flash from the camera so the dress stood out just how I wanted it. I used the umbrella just to give extra effect from the weather and I was really pleased with the shots.