Things people liked:
- The underexposed lighting
- Black and white images
- Shadows created to cover face
- That it was unusual/interesting
- Good links to the key word
- Clean, neat, professional layout
- Sense of mystery, dark emotions, intense, unknown
- Varied colour images
- Pops of colour in images - contrasting
- How the images are placed makes you look around the outside first
- Shapes, angles, compositions, shots
- Idea of masking
- Idea of light meeting dark
Things to improve:
- Not just beauty shots! Need more variation
- Photograph own shadows, etc - not just found images
- Pull on emotional links more
- Play with more colours, more ideas of how to create shadows - branch ideas out
- Add text?
- Stick to a colour scheme?
- Be careful about even gaps in grid layout
- Consider how the eye is drawn around the moodboard
Thoughts:
It was a really useful, helpful activity being able to present and discuss my moodboard with my peers. They had a lot of great ideas and suggestions for me to consider and play around with, and I got the chance to express any of my concerns. I agree with all of the suggestions for improvement, and am excited to put them to use and see where I end up. I will next create a new refined and perfected moodboard; incorporating more colour pictures or perhaps selecting a colour scheme; varying my images from beauty shots to other images to own photos; playing with emotional links more, and so on.
In terms of my Pinterest board, my favourite image so far is this:
I love the creation of shadows, the black and white effect, and the natural hair and make-up. A nude/minimally clothed model is definitely something I want to use in my own shoot. I feel that adding clothing would detract from the focus of the image, and the nude effect instead adds to the sense of mystery further. I like the addition of stars in this image; it adds a juxtaposition - shadows are created by an object blocking light, so why are there stars (which produce light) amidst the shadows?
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