When I first started this project I wanted to take beautiful natural portraits of women inspired by the 'marilyn monroe' shoot. By the progression of the project I wanted to be more experimental and try different things. I then decided that I wanted to take more dynamic shots, maybe becoming disturbing. I now wanted to photograph people that symbolise their state of mind or telling a story. This relates to the exam theme as I wanted to photograph what people had inside their head, showed on the outside.
When I first started doing my research I an artist called 'Eve Arnolds'. Images like she took was now then image I wanted to take. I then grew an interest in other images and found an artist on pinterest called ''Inflarenzo Latif''. This artist looked at how people reacted to their environment. This had to be the turning point in the project and changed my whole way of thinking about how I wanted to excite the final piece. He was my main influence.
Using different experiments digitally and handmade in the darkroom I decided that simplicity was best. By over saturated my images on photoshop really brought out the colours and made my images more in your face, raunchy and inviting which is what I wanted to achieve. I then decided to make reversals in the darkroom as I thought this negative effect would add to the effect of edgy, dark and mysterious. I found that by doing the more complex experiments such has combination printing, photo batik, double exposures and handmade negatives, the simpler techniques were better for me.
Overall I like the exam theme as it changed my way of thinking about photography. I learnt different techniques and researched more diverse and modern photographers that have inspired me in the future. I really enjoyed going out and taking these photographs and editing them to really enhance the colours. Overall I think that I will be really pleased with the outcome of my final exam.
