Artist model - David Hilliard

David Hilliard is a fine arts photographer that mainly works with panoramic photographs. He draws inspiration from his personal life and those around him for his subject matter. Many of the scenes are staged, evoking a performative quality, a middle ground between fact and fiction.

His work relates back to one of my artist models Edwaerd Muybridge. Buy he does it differently but taking photos of the same setting but looking at different aspects in his pictures.

I really like his work and I'm going to concentrate on his kind of style in my next photo shot.

Planning panel one layout and photo designs

This is what I am hoping panel one is going to look like, It might change later on in the year but this does look pretty good. Excuse my drawings, I am not the drawing people type haha. 

My first half of panel one is to be due by the end of the term which is coming up soon so I have a lot of work to do such as editing because thats going to take a really long time. My first photo is going to be one my model showing just her face, the one beside that I will be using Muybridge and using different shots with and black frame. The next one (below the first photo) is going to be the same as that but using just the models face but changing her facial features and the two beside that are going to show the  models body but using different body gestures. 

Blurring is going to be very important in most of this photos as well as using Muybridge in this panel. 

I am taking photos this week and will be uploaded on Monday. 

My planning for the week...

This weekend I am going to start by taking my first real shot. I feel as if my practice photos did not really relate back to my artist models and that's what I need to practice on. 

Eadweard Muybridge is what I will be focusing on when taking my photos. I am going to attempt to have my model move in different directions as seen in the image below. This photos will be in colour and the setting will be outside. I am planning on putting a black frame around these photos to make it look more interesting and MuyBridge does use this in his work too. Was thinking about making about four of these photos to full the first half of panel one.

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Keith Carter is my favourite artist model that I am using this year. I love the way he blur's out his photos, uses black and white and different tones. I was thinking of having my model just standing there but using her hands to cover her face, this would show what it would be like before violence has happened, a fear of being hit in the face.

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Using different camera angles is what I am planning on doing (an example of it above). A have found as awesome setting at the park that is down the road my where I live and the trees there would work in perfectly with my concept, being a fear of being at home.

I still have no idea how I am going to use captions in my work yet, But if I am to use it I would use it in the bottom half of panel one.

My first shot planning

After asking everyone I know, I have finally found a model which being my mum and has experience with modeling seeing her did it when she was my age so i thought that she would do perfect. I was also thinking of using myself or my brother in my work somehow by using shadows or maybe just the back of us, I don't really know how that's going to work yet. I also want to put make-up in my work and have came up with a lot of ideas how to use it such as having a black eye and using red lipstick as blood. All week I have been looking at the NZQA website looking for some ideas on how this could work and I came across someone from 2 years ago that did the same concept as me. She used make-up in her work to and it look awesome.

There will be a lot of lighting involved to to create shadows and I will be starting off in colour then later on go on to black and white. My first panel is going to be revolved around what its like before violence has happened.

Another thing I was thinking about last week was what captions I should use in some of my pictures. Thing like "You are not worth it" and "Why can't this be better" came first into my mind when thinking about violence.

This weekend I'm hoping to experiment taking photos of my mum and will probably edit them later on in the week, I will post them on my blog for you all to see.