Throughout the six week assignment i have photographed a theme of zombies on various locations,I have been able to photograph zombies through the use of special effects make up. My ideas have developed through the assignment, at first i was a bit sceptical on how i was going to shoot zombies in both rural and urban locations,my initial idea was to shoot in the studio as super impose on to rural and urban locations and also turn the models into zombies through the use of digital manipulation but i did not get the outcome i had intended for. Through the collaboration with Hair and Media students i realised i was able to shoot all in camera on location there for getting the instant results i required.
Initially for my studio shoot i used the following equipment:
Bowen's lighting
Nikon D3100
Flash sync adaptor
Apple Mac image manipulation software (Photoshop cs6)
I used the following techniques to achieve the end results:
After trying to manipulate using photoshop and not getting the desired results i wanted to shoot everything in camera,this meant playing to my strengths collaborating with other groups i.e Hair and media a technique i believe is very sucseful and i aim to use these conextions for future shoots.
For location shoot with Flo and Lanna i used the following equipment:
Nikon D3100
Make up - L3 BSDC learners.
Adobe Photoshop (CS6 and Elements 10)
I am very happy with the overall outcome of these images shot within Burton town centre, i did not use flash within any images, We went to twelve different locations around burton that were both easy acsess but also out of the way for most people, to reduce the amount of people in the shots, see image 1 as you can see there is a lot of unnessasery colour and people within the frame, so if you look at image 2 you can see that i used the blur tool on photoshop to blur the background as well as desaturating the image to draw all the attention towards flo.
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The initial problems were that i was unable to get the desired outcomes using digital manipulation, the way i got around this was to go back to the drawing board and shoot everything on location in camera, leaving digital manipulation to a minimum. The main success to the problem solving, was to approach the people with more knowledge in the area of special effects, such as make up and media design. The walking dead series have greatly influenced my work, as they have shot on location both rural and urban. Also the zombie walk in Paris 2013 have too influenced, with looking at the zombie walk it gave me the great idea to shoot at night when the lights are a lot darker, meaning the images would be a lot creepier and scarier.
I am extremely pleased with my final pieces of work I think it looks a lot different to other submissions, I would defiantly shoot the theme of zombies again as I have many more ideas that I was not able to shoot. I would change minor little details like the location used, maybe go to a busier city or town and change the depth of field in camera so that I have a narrow depth of field and just isolating the models with the people in the background just going about their daily lives. Collaborating with other people is defiantly playing to my strengths I will be using this skill in further shoots as it has opened up many new doors.
