Photo-shoot

Photo-shoot

These photographs have all been edited, using photoshop cs3. A couple shots show the curves and levels that were altered to try and achieve the desired overall feel of the image. Cold and harsh but magical and regal/powerful.

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As the theme is the Snow Queen, I wanted to have the crown feature in the book covers. I have already created the paper crown by this point but to experiment I went out and bought a plastic crown. I vacuum formed it (which is how the crown lost one of the stars) so I could then create an ice crown (see below)

Figures 1-5 were taken of the plastic crown after vacuum forming, a star broke off but this did not deter me. Photographed with two studio lights and the crown sat on top of an acrylic sheet to get a reflection.

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Setting up the photo-shoot for the ice crown was refreshing as it has been a while since I last used my own camera. Dealing with the melting ice was the biggest issue I faced as well as trying to use the manual focus lens as my wrist wasn't able to hold it up steadily for very long. Using a tripod solved this problem though. i struggled to always get the back drop dark enough with the lighting and white walls in the background.

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The aim for this section of the photo-shoot was to capture a more abstract approach with these images. I did crop these in the editing stage.

The strong contrast between the background and ice in the forefront is visually appealing and doesn’t allow for any colours to come into it. This is perfect for what I was aiming for though because the Ice Queen is cold and uncaring, the lack of colour helps to  visually create this.

The photograph in Figure 10 with the reflection showing, gives the viewer  more to look at, it adds an extra dimension of detail that is representative of the mirror (mentioned at the start of the snow queen story) and mirror shards which distorts the perspective of the person who has a shard in their eye or heart.

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The aim with these edits (figures 14-16) and original photographs was to try and show the glitter inside the ice. In person you could easily make it out but when it came to photographing, the camera was not able to capture it. The most successful shot is figure 15 because there is more sense of reflection and depth and the glitter is more obvious too.