evaluation of heroes and villains

evaluation of heroes and villains

After completing this project i have found a new lease of confidence. I never realised how much fun you can have being in front of the camera and setting up the entire shoot i.e. lights, costume and even going as far as setting the focus and aperture on the camera. The only thing i didn't do was the makeup for the villain shoot as it was a pretty complicated job, but i am more than happy with the outcome of that shoot. I had a problem finding a wig that look like Jim Morrison's hair for the hero shoot, which meant it was quite late before i got the shoot done. But i don't feel as though i rushed it. Once  i got the prints made i had to decide on whether to frame the prints or not and i made the decision not to get them framed and to just have bulldog clips to hang them as this would set mine apart from other people and give them the relaxed style i wanted to achieve.  The camera i used was the Hasselblad with Phase one back and shot tethered, this was because of my hero shoot, i wanted to recreate Joel Brodsky's shot of Jim Morrison and i wanted to keep it as authentic and as close to the original as possible. So i kept the Hasselblad used it across all three shoots to try and keep the pictures as close to each other as possible. This was a bit restrictive, but the the Hasselblad is a very versatile camera and not really to complicated to use. Setting up before each shoot i chose to keep the lighting the same just changing sides, the style of lighting is Rembrandt lighting. So to conclude i really enjoyed this project it was a real change of pace being in front of the camera for a change.