oh lord my awful posture and why are these images sideways?

here’s some phone shots from my first shoot.

My very sick photograms, grasping hope.

One of my most favourite printing methods <3

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Outfit turn out for final shoot

You might of noticed I haven’t n my blog for a while, I have been doing sketchbook work though. Ive reached a dry patch with the magazine and finding certain people in my group hard to work with. Our art director and photographer are taking over everything!! I feel like a lot of responsibility and leadership in the styling department is being taken away from me. Every styling idea I have gets shutdown and I just don’t know what to get the models to wear as neither art director nor photographer will allow me room to experiment, which defeats the purpose. We are creating a fashion magazine and fashion is an art, while art is subjective its still full of experimentation and risks. Why cant we take a risk and use clothing pieces that don’t fit our colour palette? people don’t wear the same colour everyday. Why cant we incorporate clothing items that are trendy? they are trendy for a reason. Another thing a struggle with is the perfectionist side of both the art director and the photographer, things don’t have to be perfect, we’re uni students for gods sake not a corporate publishing company. You don’t need to over edit photos to capture a beautiful image, you don’t need perfect looking models, a good photographer should be able to capture the beauty in anyone. Im so sick and tired of the direction our project is going, the photographer is allowed to come up with extremely over ambition and complex photoshoot ideas, or he uses the same concept over and over again. Yet I cant branch out in the styling, ive been seriously limited to what I can use, to the point the art director and photographer are trying to do the styling for me, without consulting me first. Or they want the models to style themselves. Because of this ive been dabbling in more of the photography side, as when it was announced our original photographer wouldn’t be coming back I asked if I could also take up that role and styling and photography are sisters, I did not receive an answer and our current photographer gave me a look of disapproval and blew his own trumpet about all the expensive equipment he has and how he’d be a better fit. A little classist but we’ll carry on. But as I havent had much to put in my sketchbook I decided that I should at least take some photos, which im extremely proud of. Im worried I will fail this module as I haven’t been allowed to actually fulfil my role, so if I fail at least I have some great photos for my portfolio that showcase the skills my group won’t let me use.

Today we did a styling workshop with Rachel. She spoke to us about styling and lighting and then set us loose in our magazine groups to go out and take photos.

I brought in some clothes I felt like would work for our workshop, as I am the stylist. Without naming names I do feel like I was a little bit ‘pushed out of the group’. Particular people didn’t want to hear my ideas, allow me to model, care to see the images I captured or even incorporate them when we showed the class what we did.

I won’t let this put me down as I am the stylist so I still have a role to play. Im going to keep sharing my ideas with my group to show that I do have talent and even though this isn’t my sort of thing I can still smash it.

anyway here is a screenshot of some photos I got as there’s too many for my to upload and also a screenshot of my styling board

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