Aim-
For This shoot I intend to form the mood depression. I will do this through the importance of my editing. I aim for my photos for create the depression atmosphere but also holding the feminine aspect to it. This is my aim for this shoot because I hope to show how even though stereotypically it is females who suffer with depression and my subject is female, I still want to show how beauty can still be seen, even through the ugliness of depression.
These are 3 examples of my work which I believe went really well. This is because even though you can see how she is upset, the first and the last image still holds a strong aspect of it- she still appears to be powerful even through the depression. This was holds my aim because I supports how people can still appear strong but be depressed- I just put the two together. Normally, people just show the strong with other people and show the pain when they are alone. The first time I shot depression, I wrote on my mirror and took a photo of myself in a frame of words, although I wanted to shoot a different subject in the frame. My friend has a really nice vanity mirror which I wanted to use. This is because it shows the pain on the mirror through the words she is looking at. There is also another reflection on the other door of the mirror- showing her makeup through her crying. Although the way I positioned her shows her power. She is sat with her arms up, although she isn't leaning on them, she is looking down at the words- she is better than them.
These are three photos which I do not think went very well. The first image I intended for my subject to appear upset when looking in a circular mirror- My reason behind this was symbolic, her pain always goes in a circle, one day she may feel good but it will always good downhill and she will feel worse later on, her days follow this circle. With this concept in mind I wanted to place her in the middle of this- with her pain framing her. Although it didn't work as well as I had hoped and it turned out like this. Also, my subject thought I had already taken the image, thus making her pull this face, but it ended up with me taking it here. The second image; I intended to have a frame of her happy face held over her sad face- I was inspired by a photographer who used Polaroid images to do this, although I didn't have access to this so I used my phone. But this didn't work very well because it was all off, thus making me create this image through editing. My edited image turned out much better than this one and can be seen on my straight images for this shoot. The third image here was made to show the bullying aspect of depression, although I weren't able to capture her face and the phone at the same time which I believe takes away half of the mood.
What I am going to next;
As I only have one shoot less and I hope this to be a creepy shot, I intend to use this shoot to help me plan my exam shoot. I will hopefully bond the two factors of power and depression to form similar images. I also hope to shoot this around the same time because I believe the use of the room light, forming that orangey tone to it adds to the depression mood because it looks more realistic in comparison to a studio lighting.
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