I am quite interested in fashion photography so I thought that I would try and find a student studying one of the courses in fashion. After asking a few people around the university I was lucky to find a girl that was studying fashion textiles, this course is were students actually make their own clothes completely.
I took some inspiration from a few different fashion photographers that mainly use black and white film. The photographers, which I looked at, were Albert Watson, Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, these were the three that stood out the most with their studio shots. The main thing that I took from looking at them was the way that they all used the lighting to create their images. I ended up using the butterfly light set up that Albert Watson had used in the images that I have used as my references. This is quite a flattering way to light female models/sitters so I thought that it would be appropriate to use.
With this image I wanted to create a story about how the student came to a finished piece of work, I got her to bring along her sketchbooks, lots of materials that she would use and some finished pieces. I also thought that using a material background rather than a standard studio colorama would add to the effect of a fashion textiles student making clothes. There was also a manikin in our studio that fashion textile students often use, so we decided to use that which, again emphasises the idea that this person makes clothes.
I am very pleased with the way this image has turned out, even though you wouldn't know exactly what this person does you would be able to tell that it was something to do with fashion and making clothes and that was what I wanted to show.
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