Our overall images consisted of autumnal leaves shrouding lingerie being raked to one side, a warm november bonfire and white wooden planks buried within cold crisp snow displaying our lingerie on top. I helped to form these ideas as we all had a light switch moment when discussing what to do and decided we wanted to stay away from a very predictable theme/trend. We wanted to link all of our images together in a way that was clever and quirky. Due to our WGSN theme being earthy we automatically linked this to the seasons and the way in which the earth changes weather. We then thought of the way seasons are divided up within the fashion industry; therefore our choices were either A/W or S/S. We felt that the earthy colours in WGSN really linked well to A/W and therefore felt that this would be an appropriate area to look at.
I provided numerous props for the final images ranging from the wooden planks which I painted white myself and some lingerie. I also provided all of the sticks/leaves which I collected off the floor and I bought the rake.
I feel that overall our final images worked very well. Initially we were worried about the rake image being too simplistic and that image found itself being our least favourite of the three. However, as we played around with editing it really came to life and found itself looking incredible. Therefore it was no longer a worry. Jess did the editing for the Autumnal image whereas I did the editing of the other two with some tweaks from Jess. I feel that my photoshop skills and illustrator skills have come leaps and bounds as I learned all sorts of new techniques such as creating fire within images, selective editing rather than editing the whole images colours and also how to adequately use the clone tool etc. I also learned how to remove backgrounds from images and how to make text be textured like part of the image. I really love how both the images came out and I'm proud of us as a group for this project.
All in all I feel that we have been very prepared this project, knowing exactly what we wanted from our shots. Despite having a few disagreements when it came down to editing I feel that we are all happy with the end result and our initial idea of having the images flow from warm to cool with the seasons has been a great success. Next time, if I was to change something it would be, perhaps, where we printed as I feel that the librarys printer often does not print the image as it actually seems which has been a problem for us meaning that we've had to re-print it numerous times. Next time I would try granthams first and see if the image actually prints like it is displayed on screen. Overall this was an incredibly enjoyable project with a great group of people.
-Rebecca Porritt
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