Lighting

With the artists that I've looked at they all use harsh lighting to create a more professional effect. It makes the photos look a better quality, and it also illuminates there features, and that's how most of the time fashion and portraiture photography always looks good. I tried to create the same effect, I set up a photo shoot, I made a black background with paper, but then photoshoped it so that it didn't look like paper. I kept changing the positions of the lights so that it created a different shadow and effect on the picture. I know that when I come to photographing my pictures for my final piece I need to use the lights to make a more professional look, I also prefer the finished look. I edited them by bringing out the colours, brighting up the photos, changing the contrast and the curve balance. With these photos I havn't really focused on the fashion side of my topic, it was easier to just focus on portraiture, just while I got used to the lights. But with my next shoot I'm going to do full body shots, capturing all aspects of my genre. I think that these photos look like the type of pictures you would see in a magazine for an interview or something like that.