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Olivia as a Private Detective / Olivia fel Ditectif Preifat

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Note: I apologise if any of the Welsh language is spelt wrong as I’m using Google’s translate software.

 

Malthouse Lane, Croes-y-mwyalch, near Newport, Wales, United Kingdom.

Malthouse Land, Croes-y-mwyalch, ger Casnewydd, Cymru, Deyrnas Unedig.

 

On the morning of Wednesday 8th February 2023.

Ar fore dydd Mercher 8 Chwefror 2023.

 

 

About the photographs.

Am y ffotograffau.

 

This is Olivia, a model I found on the modelling website called ModelFolio. I booked her for a two-hours outdoor photo-shoot in the countryside outside of Newport (Welsh: Casnewydd). The photo-shoot was to be a three part theme which is 1) a fashion photo-shoot showcasing fur fashion, 2) a girls-and-cars themed photo-shoot, and finally 3) as part of a graphic design project. The above photo was carried out for the graphic design project.

 

Here, Olivia is pretending to be a fictional private detective, in a non-existence television show. The purpose of this photo-shoot is for me to create a DVD case cover design. I would prefer to do my own photo-shoots of models I book for my own graphic design projects, rather than to use someone else’s photos of real actresses, and come up with totally fictional studio name, titles, and story plot summary of my own.

 

After all, I’m not only a photographer, but also a graphic designer. I trained in graphic design at college, while I worked as an assistant for a professional photographer. This is just a graphic design project, mainly to keep up my skills and experience, and also to showcase my graphic design work.

 

I’ve designed the DVD case cover, and will display it in my Photostream at a later date.

 

In the above photo: Olivia plays the role of a fictional private detective, who would have been hired by a client to carry out an investigation. Her investigations would lead her to a farmland, and you can see her holding a map, as if to check and confirm the location. It is a proper Ordnance Survey map used as a prop. As the road was extremely less busy, barely a couple of cars would come by in an hour, not counting a tractor, so it was safer for her to walk in the middle of the road as seen in the photograph. I asked Olivia to act like as if she drove the Land Rover, parked there, got out and looking around, like as if tracking down someone or something.

 

The car behind her is a Land Rover Freelander, and is actually my own car, but for the fictional story, she would be the kind of person who would prefer a trusty vehicle that she had for years, and that this would be the kind of outfits she would likely to wear.

 

Olivia is wearing a winter outfit containing of a Size S black faux fur jacket with leopard patterns collar and cuffs from Leana London. The company is likely to have been a manufacturer or a retailer, but there is not much details about Leana, and the company may have closed down before the Internet became popular.

 

She is also wearing a white cowl neck jumper, the design of the cowl gives the illustration of wearing a scarf, along with black trousers, and white ankle height trainers.

 

The car behind her is a 2005 Land Rover Freelander four-wheel-drive.

 

It is a diesel 2.0L Td4 SE model with manual gearbox, and a BMW M47 engine. This is a 5-door compact SUV, and is considered to be an affordable and entry-level model in the Land Rover production range.

 

The tyres seen on this car are BF Goodrich T/A KO2 All Terrain tyres on steel wheels.

 

The first generation Freelander was built between 1997 to 2006, and the second generation from 2006 to 2015, when it was replaced by the Land Rover Discovery Sport.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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