So above you can see the differences between my edited and un-edited photos. I wanted them to look professionals so i didn't want to go over the top with anything. As you can see i dulled out the colour from the rake picture and added a slight vintagette border. i cooled the lighting but added a warmer tint to even out the white a little more as i think its an important think that we don't lose the aspect of it being white. I cropped to zoom it in and added a lot of contrast to separate the colours a bit more.I said in a previous post that i wasn't as keen on that specific photo but i'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out.  However i still might to to broaden my Photoshop skills by trying to edit around a few leaves. 

With the bonfire image which i still love, i centred it in frame as much as possible. I darkened the edges keeping almost a spotlight like feature in the centre. Although i darkened the image i think i made the colour a little more vibrant as i felt like it really made the image pop. I think the black centre bra still takes the attention but a lot less since i added a higher contrast to the image to separate the shadows a little more.

Everyone i have shown these images to so far have all said they loved the Snowy underwear one the best. I do love how realistic it comes across, a fear of mine was the fake snow looking too fake but im super happy with the outcome of them. Especially the dead chirps leaves under the snow it links it to the other two images more, almost showing a life cycle for leaves. I don't think there's anything about the edited snow picture i wish i could of changed, since i added contrast, and darken the shadows the white underwear stands out a lot more in comparison to before which was our only one worry so i am really happy with that image entirely. 

I'm really happy with my edited images but im still going to have a play around. I think i tried my best to capture ASOS's essence within the pictures as well as maintaining our theme.

-Jessica Flavell

Looking at the images above might not make much sense but i created a digital version of what i wanted our props/backgrounds to look like for each image so when we go to our shoot on the day we know how to set everything up. however i left out the underwear of these images as the placement of it will most likely move between shots.

The first we have leaves on the ground of the studio with someone holding a rake, we want the underwear in with the leaves but in a position that will make it still stand out. we wouldn't have any hands in the shot it would be closer up. Our second image i'm going to create a mini bonfire kind of scene, the underwear will be placed around/ on it. Our third image we have some white wood and fake snow, the underwear will be placed on the wood with the snow gently on and mostly around it, 

so that it symbolises winter. 

I wanted our images to show a progression from autumn to winter, i did this by visualising what i think of most in October, November and December but i wanted to stay away from the bigger holidays like Halloween and Christmas, and decided to just use bonfire as i thought the twigs is keeping in tune with our 'Earthed' WGSN trend as much as the fallen leaves and the snow. (Halloween and Christmas don't follow that trend which is why i left them out.) 

I'm hoping that these will be easy enough to re create on the day my only doubts are going to be with getting the mini bonfire to stand, and our best option being to try and fix it together prior to the shoot. 

The photos above are really just a guideline and a visual aid to help us set up, On the day of the shoot things may change to help the shoot along is something doesn't work out. Yet i feel i have created a quirky way to show the underwear and its something that would also fit into ASOS guidelines. 

- Jessica Flavell

To help us get inspired and start to pick out our underwear styles me and beckie hit the high-street to look for some pieces that we liked and that we might want to use in our photo shoot. We both really liked delicate underwear, that has less structure and is more dainty. We decided our target market was people around our own age, who keep up to date with fashion and loves a good product. were also looking into ASOS for our chosen magazine to use our images in. so taking ASOS in mind they're very quirky, and fun when their selling their products which is what were trying to portray in our shoot. 

With the delicate and pretty underwear styles were looking into its as if we are trying to show a certain innocence through a sensual product by linking it with nature and natural occurrences that aren't normally deemed 'sexy.' 

The shops i looked into were H&M, NewLook, Boux Avenue, and Victoria Secret. I wanted to see what they offered us to fit into our style. But so far I have bought underwear from Ann summers, Primark and TKMaxx for the shoot. (Pictures below) these pieces will be used in our Autumn style images, With them all being nudes, browns and tan's they're really earthy colours, I'm still looking for some green items to add to these. 

( post about ASOS following shortly.) 

When thinking about our photo shoot being split between Autumn and Winter we need a different feel of lighting for both seasons. With autumn I can imagine really warm lighting, making it look quite cosy and homely. I think we are thinking about using a light Grey back drop for the Autumn shoots, We don't want a busy over done background that distracts from the product we would be trying to sell. So for autumn I think a warmer lighting would be much more flattering. For the ideas we've got planned for our autumn shots a head on view would be our best option. 

With our Winter we're wanting to use a white backdrop, most of our winter ideas are going to be on the floor so we're wanting a direct birds eye view of the items, but some slightly 'from the side angles' could also be a possibility with this one. We are wanting a much colder vibe for these shots, cooler lighting to set that wintery vibe. 

-Jessica Flavell

-Jessica Flavell

After looking on WGSN we found that there were a few 'earthy tone' trends for A/W 17 that we really liked and wanted to use for our project. We thought that really delicate underwear, lace ect would look really photogenic in these colours. We were wanting to stay away from the blacks, whites and red colours that underwear is usually sold and advertised in. So we thought these warm autumn and wintry colours would be a perfect change up from that. 

Were mainly focusing on Khaki green colours, Browns and Navy blues for our shoot to complete out winter and autumn looks. 

-Jessica flavell

Initially, as a group we all got together and discussed an array of different options and which kind of route we wanted to take. We looked at other still life images and even comprised a paper collage and toyed with different ideas. In the end, we came to the conclusion that we wanted our main focus to be based around lingerie and underwear. Therefore we created this blog in order to show our thought processes throughout our project.


I personally created this collage using photoshop of a few different textures I liked and different examples of lingerie I thought looked great when photographed in a 'still life' sort of way. I like the use of white different textures like white painted wood, white painted bricks and peeling white surfaces. I feel like this could look good as a background for our shoot. We also looked at WGSN to establish up and coming trends and saw that there are quite a few earth tones used.

-Rebecca Porritt