First Collage

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Here is the college showing the identity of the creative, affectionate subject. I feel her identity comes across well through the photographs and I really like the photos that I have taken. I made the collage using Photoshop, adding the photos into 5 different layers, resizing them to fit in with each other and filling the background in black. However, after creating the college, I think that showing identity through more than one photo in a college looks a bit tacky and that is definately not something I want my final to look like.

Kept Photos

I really like the tight composition of the subject and the dog taking up most of the picture, I think it brings across the affection more this way by just focusing on them both, the warm colours which I really like also helps achieve this feeling and mood in the photo.

The composition is once again quite tight and I really like the rule of thirds composition here. The warm colours also bring out that affection feeling in the photo once again, which was the aim of the picture.
 

The shallow depth of field here really stands out and helps to give detail to the cup and the brushes nicely. I like how you can just about see the painting in the background, and the mixing dish behind the cup and brushes. The composition is nice also, with the brushes pointing out diagnolly across the unfocused space. This photo shows that the subject paints and gives the impression that she is a creative person.

Another photo showing the creative side of the subject's identity, showing a painting and a mixture of different paints and inks. I like the depth of field and how the foreground is out of focus and the background is in focus, it makes for an interesting looking photograph.

I have added the original photo of the subject's eye to the selected photographs for the collage, as it could also emphasise the creative aspect of her identity, aswell as adding another aspect to her identity, which is her unusual iris colour.

Shoot 2 - Contact Sheet

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With this subject I tried to establish her identity through photo's of her art posessions, relationship with her dog and cuddly toys. Through her painting and art items you can see that she is a creative person who can express herself through art. The cuddly toys and her close relationship with her dog you can see she is an affectionate person who really like animals and pets.

Kept Shots

Below are my kept shots from the shoot which I plan to use. I am thinking of creating a collage of images to sum up a subject's identity, using photos of the subject and their interests and belongings, taking inspiration from Nathalie Lecroc's paintings of people's bags and possessions.

I really like the composition and colours of this photo, I feel the slanted way the photo is taken gives it a bit of an edgy feel which is a good way to describe the subject's identity and the fact that he skateboards.

I like the depth of field in this photo, and the nice textures and colours on the wood of the skateboard decks. This is a good way to show that the subject has been involved in the skateboarding sport for a while as he has used quite a few skateboards, establishing his identity as a skateboarder.

Similar to the previous photograph, this shows that the subject has been through many shoes whilst skateboarding. It also shows that he is quite messy with the room in the background looking quite un-organised and the shoes all piled up on the floor. I like the rule of thirds composition here.

Here is a series of photos showing a skateboarding trick performed by the subject. This adds to his skateboarder identity by actually showing him doing a trick. I like this as it is a sequence and not a still photo like I would normally take.

Here is another photograph exploring the belongings of the subject. This shows that he is also musical and plays the guitar and the drums. You can see from this and the fact that he skateboards that he is quite a creative and care-free/wild person.

Shoot 1 - Contact Sheet

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 With this shoot I aimed to capture the subject and his interests. He is a skateboarder, so I tried to take photos of things skating related to establish to people his identity as a skater. He also plays music and is a band, so the photographs of the drum and guitar explain another part of his identity. I feel by viewing all of these photos together in some way, perhaps a collage, the viewer of the photographs would have some kind of idea of the subject's identity.

Inspiration - Nathalie Lecroc

 http://keepingslimandgettingstylish.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html

 http://www.onsitereview.ca/miscellanea/tag/material-culture?currentPage=2

 http://allthingsnice4life.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

 http://blog.iamlam.com.au/2010/07/

A series of paintings by Nathalie Lecroc called "Anthology de Sac" focuses on the contents of different women's handbags, revealing their identitys through their personal belongings. I think this is a really interesting way of showing somebody's identity as you are not focusing on the actual person but instead their belongings, which can say a lot about a person, but can also be misleading.

First Shots

 

I took this picture of a subject's eye because it is a unique colour of eye and she could be recognised for having this strange coloured iris, forming part of her identity. I really like this photograph as although you can only see part of the subject's face, you would know who the person was because of her eye colour.

 

 

Here is a cropped, close up shot of the eye. You can really see the nice colours and details of the iris here, I really like the sharpness and reflections also.