It's been a while

It's been a while since I posted anything on here, so here is a quick update of what has been happening. 

At university we got given a new brief where we have to write an essay about a photographer we like and how the technology has changed over the past 30 years.

I've chosen Annie Leibovitz, she is a very famous photographer and is well known for her unique and controversial portraits. I also have to try and re-create a image like hers.

  I'm thinking about creating an image like the one above of Miley Cyrus as it's quite natural.

Painting with Light

Well it's eventually got to the point where I needed to create a blog, so what better to talk about than hand in day?

We got set the project 'Painting with Light' a couple of weeks ago where we had to produce an advertisement for a product or brand campaign that used painting with light as an alternative technique. We could choose what we wanted to produce an advertisement for. 

My idea switched from cutlery to soup, what a jump eh?

For my cutlery idea I attempted to draw a fish to represent a meal rather than just putting a glow here and there, when I practised doing this it didn't work, shown in the image below.

 
So we can see the practice shoot didn't work, so I decided to change it to something simpler by having a bowl instead and including steam and waving a torch around in the background to create a lovely effect by using coloured tissue paper and a pink carrier bag. After some feedback about the image I was told that it looked as if it was an advertisement for soup and there were a few thing still wrong with the image.

My first shoot

After busy studio times, a lot of stressing and editing here is my final image that I handed in today advertising Heinz soup.

My final image