derek.fernandez
Immanence of Sentiment
This one has grown on me – I think this might be the one I submit for the student exhibition. . . Maybe.
This one was taken in a candid moment with Bianca, reinforcing the fact that it pays to be attentive at all times! I’d planned for a movement shot with this one, Bianca would lift up the mask and draw it to her face – the flowing black cloth would swirl around and look cool and menacing/have form. In reality, it looked like a weird kind of snake! We tried everything, but couldn’t get it to have any form! I did have an inkling of this problem before I went into the shoot, and was going to bring a coat hanger to place under the mask, but I forgot to bring it! I’ve got a few exposures, though, so I might just merge a few of them together in photoshop around the mask, see if that looks any good – probably not, though! Haha
I’m glad this one came out though! Another go at symbolism for me – fairly general and amateurish but I like the idea (something I’ve always thought about, but found was expressed VERY eloquently in Infinite Jest): the mask represents cynicism, the face we wear of internal emptiness. Unemotional because society and culture has deemed this cool. The doll (cringingly obvious, I know) represents a time when naivety was not frowned upon – when we were our most human. I also picked that dress – it’s a black and white print of flowers – showing media/mass society’s impact on nature – in this case, human nature. I also chose it because it would sharpen up very nice, indeed. =) AND it looks hot! =D Could’ve done with a belt, but I ran out of funds.
Lighting – I wanted a lot of light for this one, to capture the movement (not to be, unfortunately) - so I had the key light as that giant softbox camera right, and fill from the square softbox camera left (turned down a bit). I needed enough light on the background to separate the black cloth, but I didn’t want high key – the background was white rolled paper. It looks pretty plain now, without that movement to help, though. Oh well.
Large here: www.flickr.com/photos/40246713@N03/4170998115/sizes/l/
Immanence of Sentiment
This one has grown on me – I think this might be the one I submit for the student exhibition. . . Maybe.
This one was taken in a candid moment with Bianca, reinforcing the fact that it pays to be attentive at all times! I’d planned for a movement shot with this one, Bianca would lift up the mask and draw it to her face – the flowing black cloth would swirl around and look cool and menacing/have form. In reality, it looked like a weird kind of snake! We tried everything, but couldn’t get it to have any form! I did have an inkling of this problem before I went into the shoot, and was going to bring a coat hanger to place under the mask, but I forgot to bring it! I’ve got a few exposures, though, so I might just merge a few of them together in photoshop around the mask, see if that looks any good – probably not, though! Haha
I’m glad this one came out though! Another go at symbolism for me – fairly general and amateurish but I like the idea (something I’ve always thought about, but found was expressed VERY eloquently in Infinite Jest): the mask represents cynicism, the face we wear of internal emptiness. Unemotional because society and culture has deemed this cool. The doll (cringingly obvious, I know) represents a time when naivety was not frowned upon – when we were our most human. I also picked that dress – it’s a black and white print of flowers – showing media/mass society’s impact on nature – in this case, human nature. I also chose it because it would sharpen up very nice, indeed. =) AND it looks hot! =D Could’ve done with a belt, but I ran out of funds.
Lighting – I wanted a lot of light for this one, to capture the movement (not to be, unfortunately) - so I had the key light as that giant softbox camera right, and fill from the square softbox camera left (turned down a bit). I needed enough light on the background to separate the black cloth, but I didn’t want high key – the background was white rolled paper. It looks pretty plain now, without that movement to help, though. Oh well.
Large here: www.flickr.com/photos/40246713@N03/4170998115/sizes/l/