Mufaro Jayaguru (photoshoot)

My portraits have been at the centre of my attention as I really feel it has taken me some time to look at them and to develop my ideas.

I used this model because of the contrast between the colour of his skin to the colour in his eye, this is to demonstrate the effect of judging people when you fist see them, I wanted my model to be comfortable in what I had put him in. I used a honey comb filter on my light, this was so the light wasn't too over powering over my my model, not taking focus so to speak. 

I started with a few images that I thought would but I wanted to different images that would contradict each other one open, one closed of i.e. hands over face.

This is part of the contact sheet I used for my final images the two images I used are both on this part of my contact sheet I wanted to show the other different poses I had my model do for me.

He was a very interesting and fun person to work with. He was open to ideas... apart for having to bend his knees down a bit to fit in the shot. 

This was taken on the app Negative Me. I wanted to see how the image would have come out but i think that it has come out well in an old broken way and I think that its creates a mood.

 This image I took on the app, this was very interesting as the green gives you that closed off feeling. the two fingers and =ring gives you a sense of dominance as if to say "I'm here, stand back".
The interesting patterns it has created this weird green contrasted image, but it slightly works.

This next images I again took on the app, and I feel that this one is more laid back and chilled. i had placed the images on top of a wood grain to get a new effect feel to it. its as it he was drawn on to the wood.

 This image is one of my final images for my assessment. I like this because of the tones i have manage to capture, his uses of position really bring out a different sense of character. I like this because of the half that is lit and the other half that has been black out, his simple clothes and the simple black shirt really made it useful to just capture your face, making it the fist thing you seen in this image.

This one is my favourite image, I feel such power and strength in this image. You cant help but look in his eyes. Wonder what he's thinking about. His calm face really made this shoot to be a really successful one, he really made it so easy to do, his facial features are so captivating and I wanted to show this in this image. 

This is an amazing image.

This imaged is just a collage of the images above a step by step of what i have got. I really enjoyed this shoot and that i think this is my strongest points.