PROJECT: Contextual Studies.

Along with an essay set by the college we were asked to create a supporting image, inspired by the work of the photographer we talked about within the essay.

My photographer of choice was Zev Hoover of Fiddle Oak who I have posted about before and used as inspiration for my Scale project last year.
Though I loved that project, after reading through Zev's blog I found out more about his process, and specifically how he shoots in the same lighting as the background image, something we weren't allowed to do for the project last year.

So while creating my supporting image, I followed his process to some extent, using the same lighting, and though the image of the model wasn't on a blank studio background, I made sure it wasn't too busy and cutting her out from it wasn't as difficult as I had expected.

I'm very happy with how it has come out, I managed to match the focus quite well, and also create shadow that is hopefully believable.

I'm hoping to continue creating images like this, almost paralleling to the images on Fiddleoak, making mine more city based rather than nature, though I'd love to do some like that too!

INSPIRED: Fiddle Oak

This 14 year old boy is quickly becoming one of my favourite photographers!
As a part of this new module centered around digital skills, and post production, we have been set the task of creative a digital composite image playing around with scale.

So me, being me, and having recently just watched the film Epic (2013), my head immediately thought of tiny people, and how fitting that would be to this project.

While looking for inspiration, I came across Fiddleoak, also known as fourteen year old Zev Hoover.

His work is mostly based around 'little folk' and they are all created by him at home. As a fan of fantasy and the surreal his work is definitely top of my watch list and something I'm looking forward to having a go at myself. Click here to view his flickr page.

I also came across his blog, hosted on wordpress ( http://fiddleoak.wordpress.com ) which has posts explaining how each shot was created, which is definitely worth a look! The detail he puts in is amazing!