Plans For Shoot:
For this shoot I am going to take photographs of a McDonald's Big Mac Meal with a skulls to show how excessively eating junk food will lead to health problems and then death.
Research Influence:
She was a photographer that operated in Melbourne,Australia and has since moved into another industry. She has completed a photo series of skulls positioned with different objects.
Contact Sheet:
Images that need improvement:
DS7_3433.JPG:
I this image the light was in the wrong place and so the shadow of the box blots out some of the details at the bottom of the skull. This was an experiment into the composition of my images and I learnt from this and changed the lighting for different images later in this series.
DS7_3438.JPG:
I dislike the lighting in this image as I wanted deeper shadows and this image doesn't have any, this results in a change of tone. The lighter/blander the images the less severe the warning about junk food is.
My Best Images:
A03:
MY favorite image is the one of the skull taking a bite out of the burger as it implies that the former person died due to their love of McDonald's. My second favorite would be the last couple of images as it looks as though the person has been buried by the wrappers of junk food. The consumer has been consumed. I don't like the crumbs that have fallen off of the chips that are scattered around the bottom of the image as it distracts from the skull that is in the wreckage. On the other hand it does infer that the chaos was caused by an accident and not constructed by me.
A02:
For this shoot I used my Nikon DSLR with an 18-200mm lens and a tripod to keep the camera steady. When I went to take a shot, my pressing the shutter would move the camera and so blur the image. To remedy this I used a remote release which meant I wasn't moving the camera anymore and the images were coming out correctly. I was considering using a lower F-stop but that would've narrowed the field of focus and distracted from the whole image.
A01:
My initial idea was to recreate the images from my photographers research and then form some of my own ideas from that point. How I developed my ideas was to centre my images more around the skull than Sanchez does. This is because I feel the large amounts of wrappers and food waste distracts from the message I feel the images convey. This message is if you eat a large quantity of junk food it will cause you considerable harm.
Improving my best images:
Firstly I opened all the RAW files of my best images and edited them as soon as they opened in photoshop.
I raised the exposure to keep the image balanced as I lowered the Highlights, Shadows, Whites and Blacks. This maintained the finer details of the image. I then lowered the Vibrance and saturation so the image would looked drained of life and would consequently reflect my subject matter. I was considering converting the images to black and white, but I wanted the red packaging to retain some of it's colour so that the image would keep some of the depth of tone.
to further edit my images I wanted to apply a vignette to create an intense focus on the skull and the food.
To do this I used a Google filter, a free filter that has been downloaded off the Internet.
Once I clicked on the above dropdown menu I chose the filter I wanted to apply.
Here are my final images:
A04:
I feel I have created an appropriate response to the theme of Juxtaposition. I feel this because the skulls represent the consequences of eating unhealthy foods excessively. This is juxtaposition as skeletons are unable to eat, they have no digestive system.
Next time I'd like to further my theme of skulls and incorporate them into landscapes as I feel this would challenge my creativity and photoshop skills.
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