Animal masks

Kayleigh McCallum

Kayleigh McCallum's collection of photographs called 'anti-fashion' use a lot of shadow and contrasting tones between the white mask and the surroundings. 

I really like the 'grunge' background as it looks

 distressed, adding to the freaky look of the photo. 

Some of the body positions are strange which looks very interesting, whereas this one is quite simple and natural, which also is very effective. 

Skeleton flower

For the continuous line drawing of a rose, I have now started to add some dusky tones to darken the pink tones.
I'm not a fan of tea stain, but I thought it was the most effective way to get this look I wanted.
It also will add more depth...

Hanna Lovinda

For my project in photography 'Body Parts' I want to look at de-facing people or disguising them. I first looked at using films in the dark room and manipulating them, by either covering up people's faces (like a mask), or using techniques such as the burn tool.

Now I want to look more into masks, or ways in which you could incorporate disguises with fashion photography.

The above photograph stood out to me because the people in the photographs are standing normally and acting as most people / friends do when huddling for a group photograph, (even though it is a married couple and the photographer Hanna Lovinda in the shot.) This, added with the weird animal masks makes a very unemotional, blank and stern kind of photograph, even though the people behind the masks are probably smiling.

I like this idea of taking away the faces of people because it adds an element of the unknown which adds a lot of interesting feautures to the photograph, because people always want to know what facial expressions people have. This is how we know how others are feeling.

I would like to experiment with this idea in my own project, but maybe add the element of fashion because I think it works quite well using pretty dresses/ clothes with weird and animalistic masks, as it adds juxtaposition. You can see this when you look at the bride in the photograph alone.

Photo taken from Hanna's blog

Mechanical Body Parts - Photographs

Cylinder head

A roll of brake pipes

Rubber seals 

Tool trolley

Jump leads

Jacks

Here are some photographs that I took whilst walking around my dad's garage. I liked looking more closely at things and seeing interesting shapes with the parts. 

The rustic and dirty look of the garage adds to the whole feel of the objects I photographed, as they are quite old and rusty. 

Typography photographers

Recording my flower

I also recorded my flower broach by photographing it on different backgrounds and in different lighting. 

I used my mobile to arrange my photographs, starting with merging two photographs together to look like one. I like how the colours change due to the different lighting in each room of my house. Plus the range of backgrounds give the photos another element of interest.

Here I put all the photographs I took together in a uniformed collage. I like how it looks symmetrical, even though it is not, and the different photographs compliment each other and create an overall evenly distributed range of tones.