My plan for today's shoot is to look at two different contrasts; Firstly I am going to photograph a few peoples' faces against plain backgrounds, and then using two photoshop tutorials I am going to age my models gradually to show the contrast between young and old. This may even take the form of an animation, depending on how the shoot goes. Because I don't think it will take me too long, I am going to go to the town to photograph crowds of people, to show the natural contrasts between people and their appearances i.e. heights, gender, age, ethnicity etc.
Shoot Evaluation:
Because of the time needed to edit the first set of photos, I never got round to shooting my idea of contrasts within a social group. Instead, I did manage to completely shoot my ageing idea and nearly complete the editing - so I am happy with this aspect. I will perhaps take my social group idea and use it to shoot again on thusday.
Whilst shooting for my ageing technique, I feel like the results were good, but could be greatly improved. Firstly, I should have perhaps taken some more photos as not all of the images I captured were good enough for editing, and thus it limited my choice for the final product. Secondly, I feel like this would be greatly improved if I had shot the images in the studio - the images would have been a lot clearer and picked up more details to use in the editing stage, plus a plain background would have made selection around my models a lot easier.
As with the editing of my photos, initially I thought that process was going well - I managed to succesfully thin out my models' hair and sag the skin to make her look older, but I am struggling with the rest, and she doesn't look like she has aged as much as I wanted her to. The camera has not picked up enough details i.e. fine lines and slight wrinkles for me to duplicate and enhance, which is one of the biggest giveaways when it comes to ageing someone.
Development:
I would definitely like to conduct this shoot again after learning about the difficulties I have faced today. I would definitely consider shooting this in the studio to pick up on extra details, plus I would have to consider using a slightly older model i.e 25+ to make ageing easier. To also develop this idea I would also consider looking at generations as a theme for my topic. Instead of perhaps ageing one person, I could photograph different people of different ages and use this to create some sort of animation showing the transition between young and old.
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