Fairytale Photoshoot

Chloe approached me last week and asked if I would be able to do a photoshoot of her for her fairytale project as she wanted photos of herself as these fairytale stories to then create her paintings from. I was very excited to be able to do the photography for her as I really liked her ideas and I love portrait photography so this defiantly interested me. She told me in more detail about the themes and she wanted portraits of her as Little Red Riding Hood, Little Mermaid and Alice in Wonderland. She told me about some of the props she was going to source for this such as playing cards for Alice and Fur for Red Riding hood so I had a look online just top get some ideas myself about the kind of thing she wanted. These are what I looked at for inspiration:

I defiantly prefer the more dramatic serious approach to these kind of portraits as it is much more meaningful and intense. This is what I want to try and help chloe achieve. I also spoke to her about lighting and she wants it to be dramatic with shadows but not too much contrast. This led me to plan to use two lights with soft boxes on. One of either side of her but one set to flash brighter to still give her some drama. However I did also want to try one point lighting but I felt like this would give too much contrast which she didn't want. We conducted her photoshoot on Friday 23rd February in the university studios. I managed to get the lighting dramatic but not too contrasted with two lights attached to soft boxes as I said but I had one slightly more powerful and closer than the other. The main challenge was trying to make Chloe feel comfortable in front of the camera but I achieved this by chatting to her and encouraging her to change the way she posed etc to also get a nice variety. I captured a lot of different images for her to have a variety to choose from for each character but here are the favourites so far from this shoot currently unedited but she will edit them as needed when she chooses which to paint:

I am happy with how these images turned out and this has been a very fun side photography project to work on. I would be more than happy to complete more portraits for her project if she needs any.