Portraits - Final Piece

Final Piece to the Portraits project, Shot by Joe Palmer

This is my final piece. Overall I think its one of the strongest images I've taken as it combines knowledge I've learnt from both Mads Pearch and Elesq (my chosen artists to research) and I think it conveys the message of individuality through differences very well.

I actually took this picture while I was talking to Ciara and Alice about what poses to do and just pressed the shutter as the camera was in my hands. When looking back at the pictures I realized that this was the most candid of all of them which is a really interesting contrast to have considering the very manufactured surroundings. I think this really cool and I defiantly like to practice with this in future shoots. I also really really love the faceless aspect of the image, faceless photography is something I love and I do it often but decided against it in this project for that reason. I just really enjoy the dehumanizing factor of it and can make an image much more impactful for me. Thats why I love this image because its a project focusing on identity and yet this image is very 'secret' and hides the identities of the subjects, but you can still see little trickles of who they are through small patches of light that have hit the face.

I also very much enjoy the colouring of this picture. I think Alice pose combined with the green colouring make a a almost snooty look, this is done through the mixture of the lax body language she has the the greens connotations of envy and jealousy. Whereas Ciara is much bluer but has these speckles of green, red, and purple on her making overall kinda somber but with this underlying passion.

Overall this Project as been amazing and I've really enjoyed it and being free to experiment how we like, It was a great start to the year and has re-introduced to me to photography well. I defiantly know that for the future I need to learn a bit more of my controls for the cameras as if I did know I might have been able to fix the problem I had in the final shoot. I think my Final piece is strong and I've had a great time trying to achieve it.