Pesticide Shoot

PREPPING
This was the last shoot in the day with the same model we did 3 looks that day on him. I showed the model again my idea of what I wanted to achieve on my iPad with poses and the overall mood.

Inspiration from iPad. 

STRUGGLES
When I first added the paint and we started to shoot I realised there wasn't enough paint it just look like a few random spots of paint. it wasn't giving that spray effect I desired. I went in and added more paint and orange to give it more dimension. After that it looked 100x better.

Didn't look right wasn't enough paint

After I had added more paint.

Another big struggle I faced and it left me me feeling deflated at the end of the day was that the pesticide spray stick I had brought didn't spray out product. We did try to spray yellow paint out a water bottle to get the effect but it just didn't work. I was worried without the pesticide stick in one of the pictures you wouldn't understand what it was about.

It was obvious the spray wasn't coming from the pesticide spray stick each time we tried to do it this would happen or the camera could pick up the colour in the air. 

I went home that night not knowing what to do with my idea it didn't work. I spoke to my photographer and he said that they turned out great and I was being to hard on myself but it wasn't the original image I had in my mind. He told me to pick a few I liked and he would edit them and send them me. He told me not to look at the originals and to wait until I got the edited ones.

EDITED PICTURES

MY THOUGHTS
I was so surprised with the end result and what my photographer was able to do with the images. He said from what we spoke about he wanted to make the yellow bright and make it look a bit more toxic. He also darkened the background to make the overall effect pop more.

DO PEOPLE GET THE CONCEPT?
I showed the edited mages to a few people and asked them if they understood what it was about after explaining my book idea to them. They all gave answers such as harmful products, toxic and chemicals. The only picture people didn't really get was the one with the pesticide stick in it. Someone thought it was a microphone. I didn't want the wrong message being portrayed in my book. I didn't have time to reshoot and I really like the way the images turned out with out the stick in so decided to use them instead people understood it and it would be talked about in the preface of my book as well.

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WHERE TO GO FROM HERE - Discuss the other photoshoots I did on the same day with the inspiration I used.
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