Responses to Julie de Waroquier

 

These are my responses in the style of Julie de Waroquier.
I used my little sister as the model as i felt a young girl would be most suitable for the image.
I like the fact that the location of the images has the wall in the background and the black cloth on the floor as I feel it breaks it up and gives the sense of danger, messiness and uncertainties - which relates back to the story of the three blind mice.
I think the posture of the model is very important to not only responding in the style of Julie de Waroquier as it is that what tells the story and states the feelings of the character.

I decided to do this photo as a close up and focus more on the portrait and the posture of the model. to say the model looks calm is an understatement to say the predicament they're hypothetically in.
I used the blind fold as the more traditional link to the nursery rhyme of three blind mice to bring a bit of obviousness to the photograph.
I like how the composition of the photograph means the model is in the centre but yet slightly off straight, it is almost like her body is at an angle and i purposely cut the told of the head and bottom of the legs to give a closer interpretation of the image and i fell it created a greater depth of detail. to achieve this i used a shallow depth of field - this ensured the background was out of focus and the foreground in focus.





For this image I have chosen two different theme effects, one black and white and one more colourful with darker edges. I achieved the darker edges by using a photo editing software to burn the edges of the photo.
I edited the same photo in different colours as I feel the black and white one is better because i feel it tells the story better and you can interpret it easily but the colour one responds to Julie de Waroquier more accurately.








I plan to possibly re-shoot these images as I feel that the background of the images take the impact away and makes the images lose there value. I would probably chose a background such as tree's or bushes or a more suitable background to complement that main subject of the photograph.


Re-shoot

These are the results from the re-shoot i did for my responses to Julie de Waroquier.
I am happier with the outcome of these compared to the other ones because they were flawed in so many ways including the background.
For the re-shoot I went on location to a local park/field to give me a clear and not distracting background. I feel it is them simple changes which have improved the photographs greatly. I then added a black and white filter as I felt it expressed the emotion more readily but I also did one in a colour filter to show the comparisons.