Structure and Attachment | Accessory Photoshoot

The Set Up

I decided to use the inside of a town house for my set up, white walls with various art pieces. Within this, I moved locations a few times. In this town house there was an over-sized green cupboard that reminded me so much of that image from my mood board, it related extremely well. As I had previously spray painted my accessory red I didn't need to do that much with it on the model. The other props I included in the shoot were some Parasols with Japanese characters on them, a kimono in a turquoise/green shade to compliment the red and various gold ornaments for a ledge above a fire place in a different room.

Looking back at my produced images I wish I had shot a few outside, in a concrete scene. This would have given an interesting contrast to the homely feel of my other images. Apart from that, i was happy with how the shoot turned out. 

Editing 

The editing of the images was inspired by both sections of the themes; the culture side was through gallery visits, but in particular, my personal culture. The art in my grandparents house is all Japanese and geisha inspired, much of it is traditional Japanese paintings on wood and parchment. This effect was almost sepia, muted colours with calligraphy. So on a few of my photo's I old-ified them, distressed the image, increased the noise, desaturated and added various layers and effects to produce this worn look. My other main inspirations were from photographers. Araki, a Japanese photographer was my first inspiration. These particular shots of his inspired some of my finals, the odd objects, bleak background, composition and red accent colour.

The next photographer was Juergen Teller, but in particular the still life collection and Celine editorials; the overexposed effects with saturated colours reminded me of the Geisha make up, and the look I tried to portray in both shoot and editing. 

The final influence was from Vivian Sassen, whose style is extremely contemporary, but in particular her Pop Magazine shoot. The surrealist nature drew the contemporary modern edge to my images.

With the planning of the shoot, I should have checked the weather in accordance with my day as then I would have been able to include some outside shots, unfortunately I shot my accessory on the day there were hurricane winds so going outside to shoot was impractical. However, I was still happy with the outcome, and with the edits. I feel they reflected my themes well and were strong finals.