Second Photo Shoot Contact Sheet

As I planned I knew that I would have to perform a second photo shoot so therefore I took the same timing structure, location and lighting from before but this time I wouldn't use props to create a sense of variety. I asked my model to stick to conventions by wearing the typical artist attire of all black but to not wear a plain t-shirt and trousers as this is very conventional, instead I asked her to wear black dungarees with black tights and the same black creepers to ensure there was a link between the two but this isn't vital as her shoes cannot be seen in the first images. I also had to change the poses, for the double page spread I wanted to convey a very relaxed and open tone to create the honest ambience that I wanted my reader to experience so I asked my artist to sit down on the floor to appear toned down and to create an equal between the artist and reader. So I experimented with poses where her legs were crossed and holding herself up with her arms, although I wanted to avoid conveying my artist as too relaxed, such as lying down on her side, due to this contradicting the persona of the front cover image thus removing the tone of honesty away from my magazine. When I met my artist she had dyed her hair pink, I had not allowed or expected this change to happen so I went ahead with the planned shoot, although I did add some medium shots just in case that the variety was too much, but this might mean having to reshoot for different front cover and contents image if my focus group pick up on such a wide variety. Another option is that I could try and recreate the brown hair on Photoshop or vice versa. Another person was present at the shoot and I experimented with the fact of someone 'styling' the artist to give another sense of honesty through the 'behind the scenes' images but I felt that these didn't work so I feel I will probably leave it out. I also had to place weights on the white screen to prevent it from rolling back which can sometimes be visible but I will crop them out of the final piece.