Week 8: Best and worst

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Weak images:

This image is hiding the model, although her body is in an unusual position, you can't really see the background of paint and goes against what i was trying to convey. Despite this, the paint makes her look battered and bruised and the subject looks almost defeated from the paint consuming her. If the background and the rest of her lower body (hands and arms) had been in the shot, it may have been one of my strongest.


This images is also quite weak like the image above as her body is in a distraught position, yet the background is lifeless and doesn't contribute anything to the image. To improve, if i changed the perspective to a low, looking up angle, i could have created much more raw and depth to my photograph.




Best Images:

This brings together the ideas from all the photographer i have researched over the past few weeks. The model is consumed and overwhelmed by paint, she shows emotions of worry and fear, she is clinging onto her body like she is scared and reserved, afraid of expressing her true emotions. It shed light on Ben Heine's work, Flesh and acrylic, while also linking to the work of Pollock and Draschen. She blends into the background, but you can clearly see that this is not something she wants.


Again this image portrays much of the emotions like above, yet her body language suggests she is forced and has given up, conforming to the stereotypes of society to please the overwhelming power, which in this case, is the paint. 




This image is a close up portrait and shows the paint slowly dripping, consuming the models face. This has correlation to the smoke shoot in the fact that the model is slowly being immersed in this overwhelming authority. The models face is sharp and in focus whilst the background and foreground has a shallow depth of field, encouraging the spectator to focus on the models face and the emotion that comes with it.


This is one of my favourite images, the model is screaming out, desperately trying to escape the restriction she is facing. By taking this image at a different perspective, you are almost an onlooker, watching at the sidelines of this subject falling to defeat.



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