Contact sheeting and further completing

My first shoot.

These are the contact shoots from my first shoot which I am pleased with for a first attempt. In the shoot I was constantly reminding myself of my vision for my star image and I put this forward into how I directed my model.

I mindfully chose the costume for my model to wear. I wanted him to symbolize the genre and of course I needed him to be wearing some chains because that is the magazine’s title.

In terms of body language I feel as if I had him in the correct stances and facial expressions to communicate not only the genre but the fashion movements and styles of the era I went going for, which is  90s hip and rap.

I really like this image because it gives the perfect  message of ‘I’m a rapper I’m too cool for you’ ‘I’m too busy taking this phone call when I organised this shoot’. This portrait captures my model as ‘exclusive’ and ego boosted and It contains nice colours but not too much colour. It holds some great visual integrity in that my model is holding a menacing and vicious facial expression but the colours are overtly bright. I like the juxtaposition and that fact he’s on the phone whilst making such a facial expression gives a sense that this ‘celebrity’ is in a state of delusion and that he thinks he is above everyone else.

In terms of lighting, I went for a high key lighting set up. This is because I wanted every action and expression was captured on camera. To give as strong of a message as possible.