Observations - Shoot One

Here I have tried to recreate in my own way John French's work, with this my younger model I wanted to make this light and feminine, as John French focused on accessories I tried to follow that into my own work, to also push the classical elegant style of the era I am focusing on. I feel I have captured the innocence of the model in these pictures, which is common to see in classical photography. I used low lighting with only one light directed at her face, my shutter speed was at 1/60" so my picture was clear but light so i could get shadows like John French and to make her features stand out like French's.

Also looking at John French's work I push the shadows with this shoot. I wanted to have my own take on his work and not to recreate as such, but my use of shadows has given me the opposite effect and instead of bringing out the features of the face it has hidden them. However I have managed to make my photographs high key shots which was my main aim to begin with. I used a slow shutter speed so that my images were soft I done this so that were it isn't so shaded the features and enhanced and detailed to make the images elegant and classically styled.