Latest Plan for Next Shoot

Where I'm At With Panel 3

I love the look of the bottom line of photos. Used David Carson as an artist model. I played with focus, having Logan and the background in and out of focus. Also the layout of the photos mimic how Carson presents his photos.  

Im still unsure of the second line of photos, and potentially I might take them out. 

I plan to look at installation art and incorporate the blanket and the pegs, as I have used them throughout my folio. I want to show human presence without Logan physically being in the shots, similar to the ones in the first line on my panel 3. 

New Plan for Panel 3

Panel 1 and so far Panel 2

Latest Shoots, Another Look At Duane Michals

These are my latest photos looking at Duane Michals, these are for my panel one, replacing photos on there that were boring, I LOVE these photos, and are my favourite so far. I found inspiration from Duane Michals ''Fallen Angel Shoot.'' I liked the idea of having something drape over Logan, like this angel is draping over the person. 

Walead Beshty - Research

Walead Beshty is an London born photographer but is based in Los Angeles.

Beshty earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College, then went on to get a Master of Fine Arts at Yale. His first solo exhibition was in New York in 2004 which was successful.

I am looking at his work, ''The Phenomenogy of Shopping and Dead Malls'' which is situated at Contemporary Art Centre, Long Island City, NY. 

I really like how these are so weird and unusual and I think the concept of putting the body in awkward situations kind of fits in with the rest of my work. I want to try this with Logan but put him under the blanket, to still keep the dark theme coming through. I tried to take some like on my latest post, but I didn't like the look if them, so I am going to try it again using different lighting and in a different setting. 

Latest Shoot

This is my latest proof sheet, I'm not using these on my folio because they we're unsuccessful and I dont really like them. #fail

Worksheet

1. My work is about the struggle of being in a dark state of mind. The blanket represents the pain and pressure from society to be the best. I want to develop this further with Logan breaking about of the blanket, and showing him as an individual, with the blanket standing next to him, side by side they work, but one cannot try and take over another.

2. Duane Michals, Eileen Cowan, Bill Brandt, Walead Beshty.

3. Sequences for Duane Michals. Eileen Cowan for the strong black and white contrast. Bill Brandt with the close up of hands and face. Walead Beshty is for the photos that I have taken but not yet added to my blog.

4. Panel 1 - FINISHED.

5. Dont have enough photos to have extra, I will work on taking some more over the next week or two.

Latest Shoot + Proof Sheet

I re-took the latest photos, and I prefer these ones a lot. I've used Duane Michals and Kellp Nipper, also with references to David Hilliard and Eadweard Muybridge. These photos use sequences and stick to the high contrast and difference between the darker and lighter pictures.

Plan for Next Shoot

This is the plan for my next shoot, using Duane Michals and Kelly Nipper as artist models. I want to use sequences and series as a techinique in the photographs. I want this to be at the bottom of my panel 1. I've tried to take these before and it was becoming to hard to edit in photo shop, so I'm trying again. This was my first attempt, but I've struggled to take away the harsh lines.

Artist Model Research - Eileen Cowan

I've beginning to look into other ideas and explore other artist models as I need to develop my folio further. The artist models I've started to look at are Eileen Cowan.

I've started to look at Eileen Cowan, who uses close ups of human features with lots of negative space and very little negative space to show the contrast between light and dark. I've decided that I want to explore my ideas further with this because I think it works well with the mood of my concept.

I've taken some photos so far with lots of negative and dark space. I really like the creepyness of these photos and I think they work really well. In my next shoot I'm going to take similar photos again, but with closeups of the arms and hands, and possibly use Logan's face aswell. The closeups will show more positive space with more light and shadow effects.