I decided to do my own fashion shoot with my brother and sister as the models, I used differnt garments and differnt settigns to create a few Fashion Photos of my own ...
Sunday 7 August 2011
Inspired
After Researching Marilyn Minter's work I decided to do some experiments of my own, using exagerated makeup, an elegant model and a little water
Fashion photography is traditionaly used to model something or someone, such as in magazines, fashion photography is used to display garments. Or in other ways such as promoting a band, music artist or celebrity. I am very interested in Fashion photography due to the beauty of the photos and the creative concepts. But i know that every photo should has a meaning or story behind it. 
Marilyn Minter's work is always high contrasted and presents the skin and lips in extreme detail. I wanted to take a few of my own and add the elemnt of high contrast to exagerate skin texture and colour. Also in some of Minter's work is the use of water droplets and beads. i di my own experiments. (Top Left) is a high contrasted image of an awkwardly positioned girl Monday 1 August 2011
My First Attempt At Fashion Photography
I have never attempted to take on fashion photography as I always thought you needed an amazing camera and the perfect scene or studio, However i discovered a photographer named "Marilyn Minter" who is not known as a fashion photographer but her unique style of work caught my eye.
What i like about Minters work is the layering of different media. All of her work is focused on one simple image which is then layered using differnt style sof media to create a final image. She is seen as an Artist but she usually works in the media of photography and develops further to create her final pieces of work.
Her photographs and works often include sexuality and erotic imagery such as the focus on tender lips and the seductive eyes. She begins her process by staging photo shoots, with film. She uses conventional darkroom processes and does not crop or digitally manipulate her photographs. Her paintings, on the other hand, are made by combining negatives in photoshop to make a whole new image. This new image is then turned into paintings created through the layering of enamel paint on aluminum. Minter and her assistants work directly from this newly created digital image. The last layer is applied with fingertips to create a modeling or softening of the paintbrush lines. I find the long process and development interesting as one clean photo can be expanded into a complex piece of art.
What i like about Minters work is the layering of different media. All of her work is focused on one simple image which is then layered using differnt style sof media to create a final image. She is seen as an Artist but she usually works in the media of photography and develops further to create her final pieces of work.
Her photographs and works often include sexuality and erotic imagery such as the focus on tender lips and the seductive eyes. She begins her process by staging photo shoots, with film. She uses conventional darkroom processes and does not crop or digitally manipulate her photographs. Her paintings, on the other hand, are made by combining negatives in photoshop to make a whole new image. This new image is then turned into paintings created through the layering of enamel paint on aluminum. Minter and her assistants work directly from this newly created digital image. The last layer is applied with fingertips to create a modeling or softening of the paintbrush lines. I find the long process and development interesting as one clean photo can be expanded into a complex piece of art.
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