The commission tests and finals

When I had my tutorial with Steffi it was discussed that the backup shoot (above) didn't work as well as my idea of cutting up the images and using the newspaper to suggest the idea of recycling clothes. So I did another two shoots on Monday, one on location and the other in a studio. The backup shoot was an idea to show that you are able to recycle other peoples clothes from charity shops, but it was a bit too literal and simple.

I wanted to keep the shoots quite similar in respect to the clothing and poses, I made sure that all the clothes were from high street stores such as Primark, TK Max etc as these are the stores that thrive on selling fast throwaway fashion.

I have decided that I would like to print the studio shots rather than the location as they do not work as well. If a better location had been found then this may have been used instead.


Test strips

Final test strip for this image, colour is balanced on the skin tones.

The test strip on the left is slightly too red so I had to make some small adjustments to colour correct the image.

I may have dodged the image above a little too much, as you can see very distinctive lines on the edges of the print.


Here are the three images that I printed in the colour darkroom that I will be using as my finals. I still need to cut parts out from the images and put the newspaper in like the tests I had done with some of my digital images.