After the last photoshoot i did i had a tutorial with Eloise and the feedback i got from that was overall really helpful, an artist she had suggested was Photographer Solve Sundsbø. He is a Norwegian fashion photographer and filmmaker based in London and he uses different techniques in a lot of his imagery to create warped and distorted images. A popular technique he uses in order to distort his images is by using a slow shutter speed on his camera which will create a blur on the subject. Another feedback i had from Eloise on the last photoshoot was that the flowers i used as a prop are stereotypically a signifier for femininity and this isn’t what i wanted to represent so my plan was to reshoot this shoot using this new slow shutter speed technique, inspired by Solve Sundsbø and to also take out the prop of the flowers.
These are my finals from this second shoot. The process of this shoot was the same as the first, I used the same set up and lighting as the last time, using my ring light as the main lighting and then two lamps lighting the same pink silk backdrop. The difference this time was that I didn’t use props of flowers and I also experimented with slow shutter speed to create a different kind of distortion. I felt that in the first photoshoot I focused too much on distorting the models face and so with this photoshoot I definitely wanted to focus more on distorting the body to make it genderless, which is also why I styled the model in many different layers to take away from the gender. When I compare the final images to my inspiration images of Solve Sundsbo I do feel like they have worked and are exactly what I set out to achieve. However, I don’t think that they are my favourite and I feel like I need to continue experimenting and doing more shoots in order to get visuals I really love and really work. I would like to scan these in and distort them on the printer like I did with the first photoshoot just to see the kinds of outcomes I would get but I don’t think they will be as powerful due to the images being so blurry already.
