Skin Shield Shoot Results

These are the images from my 'Skin Shield' shoot. I was overall really happy with all of the elements of this shoot have combined to produce an outcome that fits well with the theme of the article. Working with Cher on photography again, we really made the most of the location, using several different locations that I had decided upon in my test shoot to produce a wide variety of shots. As so many of the shots in this shoot were full length in order to fully utilise the city setting, I found two different outfits for this shoot and had a change in between. However, I feel like the second outfit of a dress styled with a crop top underneath is a little too '90's' despite this being the era I have drawn inspiration from here, therefore won't be including images of this look. A couple of small setbacks I faced with the makeup and hair were that my model had quite severe acne on her cheeks which was difficult to cover, which is fixable in post production but means that I have had to retouch these images quite heavily.  It was also an extremely windy day while shooting and I found it very difficult to control the models hair, having to fix it between almost every shot. Unfortunately, this was an element that I couldn't control, but luckily had allocated enough time for the shoot that this didn't become a massive problem.

I had always planned for this shoot to be black and white, however, Cher suggested that we shoot in colour as it produces a higher quality image and so I had the option of both should I need it. Looking at the images in colour, I almost went back on my original plan as I love the way that they look with the saturation slightly lowered, just to give them a cool tint. However, I made the decision to stick to my original idea, as all of my other shoots are in colour and I really love the dramatic, brutal effect that a monochrome palette has on the architecture in shot. This will be my longest editorial as I want it to be very visual, incorporating the shots of the buildings that I took at the Barbican too.

Overall I feel very pleased with these images, the model was beautiful and made taking great shots very easy and the setting effectively achieved the look I was going for and was a wonderful example of brutalist architecture. All of the images below are those that I have selected for the editorial, with the help and opinion of my peers.