Idea 2

Contact Sheets

This idea was recommended to me by Sam These contacts show the same location with different subjects being presented. These contact sheets do not show the edits done. The idea behind here is to get the same background to make sure that the work is consistent. The work shown here highlights the background is the same but off centre by a couple of degrees. The Flaw with this shoot is that I did not stand the subjects further away from the wall to enable me to have no depth of field with it having to be done in Photoshop. The other major flaw with this work is that I did not use a tripod which meant that I did not get an even background which meant it was out of place and it did not flow.

How does this idea link to Pieter Hugo?

This idea was meant to make the work look similar with a set distance away from the camera. Like the images that Pieter Hugo has produced. Unfortunately, the image came back with having a load of depth of field, so I had to edit the images in Photoshop by using select and mask and creating a new layer in order to blur the background. The problem with this was some of the shots came back looking like a ‘Do Not Do Drugs, this what you will see’ type of poster, which meant it did not work. The Link is that the work is similar to Rwanda as they are on similar backgrounds and set a distance away but the work is not even as it is not the same angle of view of the background from each image. I am not planning on taking this idea forward in the future.