Samppa_fin
From inspiration to curvy shadows
I learned: keep room for improvisation, listen to the people who you are working with and trust your gut.
I had an inspiration from a portrait of Sigourney Weaver dressed in a mens suit and where she has her shadow cast on the wall. I liked the contrast and the image sticked with me for a quite some time.
When I was planning remake of the photo I wanted to make my version of it to have a really feminine shadow but have the clothes to give a hint of the Sigourney's portrait without being too obvious.
On the day of the shoot I only prepped my model Linda by telling her that I want to cast a feminine shadow of her on the wall. She asked if she could wear a dress she had just bought herself to compliment the shadow. I saw the dress and agreed.
As you can hopefully see together we created something totally different what I had in my mind.
Image is telling another story but it gave me a good lesson about creative process and working as a team with the model within it. Together we fine tuned the pose to tell the story we now wanted to tell and the shadow is now complimenting the model not the other way around.
Link to the portrait of Sigourney Weaver:
www.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/0...
From inspiration to curvy shadows
I learned: keep room for improvisation, listen to the people who you are working with and trust your gut.
I had an inspiration from a portrait of Sigourney Weaver dressed in a mens suit and where she has her shadow cast on the wall. I liked the contrast and the image sticked with me for a quite some time.
When I was planning remake of the photo I wanted to make my version of it to have a really feminine shadow but have the clothes to give a hint of the Sigourney's portrait without being too obvious.
On the day of the shoot I only prepped my model Linda by telling her that I want to cast a feminine shadow of her on the wall. She asked if she could wear a dress she had just bought herself to compliment the shadow. I saw the dress and agreed.
As you can hopefully see together we created something totally different what I had in my mind.
Image is telling another story but it gave me a good lesson about creative process and working as a team with the model within it. Together we fine tuned the pose to tell the story we now wanted to tell and the shadow is now complimenting the model not the other way around.
Link to the portrait of Sigourney Weaver:
www.distractify.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads//2014/0...