Photo blog critique

Photo emulation project

The lighting in this picture I feel was the strong point I was able to follow the same technique as Roversi by using a direct light on the subjects body and face to highlight those areas in particular, to do so I used a bedroom lamp, this I feel did not hinder my photo in any way were as my first attempts at using both natural light ( which I have no control over) and then a strobe light ( which was to bright and didn’t highlight in the right areas) both failed. The contrast I created between the paleness of my subject and the darkness of her hair I feel added to idea of a high end ‘fashion’ images and in my own personal opinion added to the picture. My subject unlike Roversi’s subject was not displaying natural beauty as she had makeup on in particular around her eyes to emphasise them. This was my way of making the picture my own and not a complete replica of Roversi’s work. The reasoning behind my subject not wearing makeup was because I wanted to capture the shallowness and societal pressure on teenagers to always look perfect and even when striped down to bare skin we still feel the need to wear makeup as now it’s a part of who we are.
I did emulate the others aspects of the Roversi image, the focus point was my subjects eyes and also my model emulated Roversi’s as she too was stripped down to the real her.
The areas where improvement is needed, for example is the shadow of my subject its very clear and noticeable in particular around the subjects arm I could have found away to make sure there was no shadow in the image I feel this would have made it altogether a stronger image.