Beauty Within|Maraki - Narrative Imagery Series

This series of images is named Beautiful Within- a demonstration of a young woman's natural beauty. True beauty isn't just skin deep. Young women need to learn to love themselves as a person inside and out, its not all about looks, their personality can shine through too.

Inner beauty is about a woman who believes in herself; who knows that she is capable of anything that she puts her mind to.  There is a beauty about a woman whose confidence comes from within, knowing who she is and what she stands for. that follows her own path, who isn't thrown off by obstacles along the way.There is a beauty about a woman whose confidence comes from within, knowing who she is and what she stands for.

Outlining their natural features with a side profile double exposed with flowers that represent them as a person, not as an object. Floriography otherwise known as the Language of Flowers is used to represent the subjects personality for example; the white Lupin represents happiness and purple is imagination.

Proposal:
I have decided to create a series of profile portrait images double exposed with flowers. The series will consist of up to 6 images, the subject for each portrait will be a young female lady, photographed in a silhouette profile position.
I have chosen to use a silhouetted figure as this will allow me to achieve my final image. I will overlay an image of flowers onto the portrait allowing only the underexposed area (the silhouette) to display this overlay image. This gives the appearance that the subject is filled with flowers. the flowers will be chosen after the subject/model gives me at least three words that best describe her (funny, romantic, innocent, beautiful). I will then research what flower or flowers represent these meaning using the Language of Flowers (see here)


Given to time-scale I had to complete this project I had to shoot digitally rather than using the analogue double exposure technique. It was more convenient for me to locate the flowers as I was able to use stock photos which were readily available on the web. I didnt fancy trailing around florists hunting for particular flowers and getting shouted at for taking photographs of their flowers and not buying any haha.

Shoot Plan:

Photographer   Leanne Tipton-Clark

Brief Description of shoot: Studio location (college) Light set up Silhouette. Subjects will be posed in profile head and shoulders portrait (their ‘good side’) as can be flipped in post editing. Ensure subjects’ hair is tied up to allow their feature to be dominant in final image. Elongate the neck, no smile etc….See lighting diagram below

Location: Colleagues studio

Date and Time: 02/02/2014 at 3pm

Date and Time of reshoot: N/A

Team Models, assistants etc: Myself (photographer), 3 models

Has the team been notified with all the relevant details? Yes

Equipment Required:
❏ 3 models along with their one word character description
❏ White paper backdrop
❏ 2 strobe lights, 2 X Background lights, 2 black reflector boards
❏ 1 large, 1 med, 2 small soft boxes
❏ Camera dslr
❏ Computer
❏ Photoshop cs6

Cost of shoot- i.e. film, make-up, props, processing etc: Petrol to collect and drop off models £5
Total cost of this shoot £5

Lighting Diagram

Post editing:

So, the shoot itself was successful, I had to change my shoot plan slightly as the models weren't available when the college studio was so I had to use another on the Sunday afternoon instead. 

The set up was the same as the diagram above but I removed the cards as I preferred light to hit the contours of the subjects face rather than the silhouette I originally planned.  The shoot took only 45 minutes from start to finish 😄

Post editing was rather simple. I asked each model to describe themselves in a word. I had funny, moody, imaginative for the first and sporty, caring and funny for the second model.  I researched the web using my favourite sites when referring to the language of flowers. http://thelanguageofflowers.com and http://www.languageofflowers.com

For my first subject, I selected imagination out of her character description words. The flowers that represent imagination are Lupin, so I searched the web and found a beautiful stock image to use.

Lupin image 

I then opened the profile portrait and Lupin image in photoshop.

Profile image

Placing the Lupin image over the profile image. I changed the blend mode to screen which then created a double exposure effect. I made several adjustments including layer masks, gradient and fill overlays and a hair brush tool to manipulate the direction of the hair flow. This is the first image I produced. 

1st final image 

I was happy with it until I uploaded to my iMac!!! I edited on a pc and obviously the monitor is skewiff! With the rubbish blending job aside, it seemed a tad too creamy due to the overlays and I wasn't too sure on the double exposure strength on the face area. I felt it needed to be brighter overall but still with a soft finish. I removed some of the hair to soften it up to have less of a medusa look and then reduced the opacity of the creamy layer and layer masked the areas I didn't want it to affect . I also layer masked the facial area on the flower layer to softly remove some of the print on the subjects face. 

This is the FINAL image. 

Final image 

I am very happy with it now. Much brighter but still soft. The subjects hair flows more natural and I like the way I've highlighted her face.

I chose a square 20x20 format as this is what I would want if it went to print. I would print with Giclee and I would also choose a thick Matt with a slight texture to give it more depth, something like the Elegance Velvet textured fine art paper would be perfect.

I am now in the process of editing the last two images of the series which I will update this blog with this week.

UPDATE:

Below are the final images for the series Beauty Within. I used the same techniques used in my first image. The only difference is that I sourced my own flower photographs which were captured in a local flower nursery. 

I have placed the images into a triptych template I designed in photoshop to display the full series.
I am very happy with the final images but would love to have more time to experiment with the double exposure effect. I want to achieve something similar to the effect I used with the Hyacinth image, focusing on merging a double exposure with a montage. This will allow the face/body to be emmersed in the flowers (double exposure) but allowing the flowers to take their own natural form as it flows through the hair (montage).

Overall I think my shoot was successful and I think this tryptich collage along with the following accompanying text would be more than suitable for submission to my chosen magazine.

My series of images is called Beauty Within. Unlike physical beauty, which grabs the spotlight for itself, inner beauty shines on everyone, catching them, holding them in its embrace, making them more beautiful too. Your looks don’t determine your beautyy, it’s the person inside who makes you beautiful.

Inner beauty is about a woman who believes in herself; who knows that she is capable of anything that she puts her mind to. There is a beauty in the strength & determination of a woman that follows her own path, who isn't thrown off by obstacles along the way. there is a beauty about a woman whose confidence comes from within, knowing who she is and what she stands for.

Double Exposure Digitally (in camera & photoshop)

For my final piece of work for the Unit 48 Narrative Imagery I have decided to create a series of narrative images. These images will consist of a profile silhouette portrait of several young ladies, double exposed with flowers/foliage.
The flowers will represent her personality by using the Language of Flowers, for more of an insight on how this works please see my post on The Language of Flowers.

Having researched the techniques and processes of analogue and digital double exposure I have decided to use the digital double exposure technique due to the tight schedule I am on for deadline. A few images that caught my eye whilst researching are featured below.

My favourite is the bottom image, I love the way the portrait is clean and you can clearly distinguish the background from the subject. I like the way the models features are still evident too as i have noticed in a lot of double exposed portraits that these features are lost.

There were various techniques that I tried and tested but a lot of them tended to over complicate to process. This is one of them click here

I found much simpler way, a happy accident almost. I have added an image of my first attempt at using this digital technique. I have included a step my step process to show you how simple it can be!

Step One: Open main silhouette image in photoshop. I used my own image, a beautiful silhouette of one of my beautiful maternity clients Sophie. I obviously used one without my logo on.

Step Two: I then placed the second image over the main image FILE>PLACE. In this case i used daisies, seeing as though I am using the language of flowers to describe each subject in the portrait. Daisies represent innocence. The unborn child is the purist of innocence so I thought these flowers would be perfect to represent the portrait. The other alternative was 50 red roses which represents unconditional love but I didn't think I could portray that well enough on this image.

http://www.fantom-xp.com/wp_28_~_White_daisies.html

Step Three:

Selecting the blend tool, change this to Screen and increase or reduce opacity accordingly:

Step Four: I then free transformed and moved the overlaying image (daisies) until it sat in the portrait nicely. COMMAND>FREE TRANSFORM

Step Five: Using the brush tool I selected the colour on the top layer (daisies) and with a large soft rounded brush, cleaned up any patches of flowers that were highlighted on the bottom layers white background. (Make sure that you select the bottom layer when brushing.) I then flattened the image. The final touch was to add a few adjustment layers and filters.

Step Six: Extend the canvas IMAGE > CANVAS SIZE

Change width to 16 and ensure that the colour is the foreground ( it will have been selected for the clean up brush step)

Step Six: Crop to desired size, I used 5 x 7.

Reference :

In Camera:

http://www.nikonians.org/forums/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=312&topic_id=4900&mesg_id=4904

http://www.digital-photography.com/nikon-d5100-pdf-reading-sample/taking-pictures/d12-multiple-exposure/

Inspiration for my narrative imagery.

I have been creating an inspiration board of my Pinterest account. The pins are for my final piece of work for the Unit 48 Narrative Imagery. I have pinned various images/links relating to silhouette portraits, double exposures and floriography.

Please click on the link here to see my findings.

Based on my initial research on Tim Walker and my love for fashion photography  I have decided to gather inspiration from several magazines such as Vogue, Harpers Bizarre and Tatler.

A series of images that caught my eye where these featured below:

Featured in the Vogue Australia magazine, the photographer decided to incorporate flowers into their shoot. Although this is a fashion shoot for the likes of Gucci and Ralph Lauren the flowers are the main attraction to me. They add femininity and colour to a dull palette.

This was when the light bulb popped above my head. I really wanted to create a series of Vogue styled portrait images of young ladies wearing elaborate floral headdresses. Rather than advertising cosmetics or clothing etc I wanted to use the flowers to narrate to the viewers the model/subjects character/personality.

I continued to research and came across a number of beautiful images:

Audrey Hepburn in 1960s Floral Bonnet
Photographer Howell Conant. Vogue

Vintage Vogue Floral Headdress

Vogue Gioiello 30th Anniversary Supplement September 2010.

I would LOVE to have the time and money to complete this shoot but at this moment in time it isn't possible. My deadline is in a few weeks and I simply do not have enough money to pay out for several large fresh ( or artificial) headpieces. So I review my research so far and another light bulb pops up! This last image celebrating 30th anniversary for Vogue is beautiful and takes headpieces to a whole new level. The flowers almost become her, a mask rather than a headdress.

I recently had a play around with Double Exposure techniques both digitally and in analogue see here
This featured a self portrait in the style of a Silhouetted Profile Portrait exposed along with an images of  a deck of cards spread out. I chose the hearts to represent my character, a warm friendly loving person, mother, daughter, sister, wife and friend. The queen of hearts being the centre of attention.

Analogue sandwiching technique.

So with this in mind I have decided to create a series of profile portrait images double exposed with flowers. The series will consist of up to 6 images, the subject for each portrait will be a young female lady, photographed in a silhouette profile position.
I have chosen to use a silhouetted figure as this will allow me to achieve my final image. I will overlay an image of flowers onto the portrait allowing only the underexposed area (the silhouette) to display this overlay image. This gives the appearance that the subject is filled with flowers. the flowers will be chosen after the subject/model gives me at least three words that best describe her (funny, romantic, innocent, beautiful). I will then research what flower or flowers represent these meaning using the Language of Flowers (see here)

I will name the series Beautiful Within- a demonstration of a young woman's natural beauty. I want to tell the viewers that beauty isn't just skin deep and that young women need to learn to love themselves as a person , that's its not all about looks, their personality can shine through too.
Outlining their natural features with a silhouetted profile double exposed with flowers that represent them as a person, not as an object.

Given to timescale I have to complete this project I will have to do this digitally. I think this will also be easier for me to locate the flowers as I will be able to use stock photos which are readily available on the web. I don't fancy trailing around florists hunting for particular flowers and getting shouted at for taking photographs of their flowers and not buying any haha.

So my next part of research is Digital Double exposure, I am aware that some cameras can do this including the canon 5d mark 3, I have the mark 2! Grrr! I will be researching the quickest techniques to achieve this effect via photoshop.

I will update my blog with another post with my findings so keep an eye out!

Lea x

FILM NOIR - Narrative Image experiment

This image was the result of a small task given in class. We formed a group of three and together had to create a narrative image to create a scene from a movie. Each group had to choose from the genres within narrative imagery, we chose Film Noir. With a little background research into to the film noir genre we chose our scene. A lot of the images involved spotlight style lighting or Rembrandt lighting with industrial backgrounds or dark backdrops where the light has simply fell off! I found a great background scene from deviant art for our scene, a disused warehouse. Given the light source I thought it would be a good idea to use silhouetted figures to create some mystery on the hidden identity of the characters. We set to task in the studio and used a single light set up with white backdrop to create a Silhouette. John was the victim in the chair, hands tied behind his back. Karl was the hit man with the gun, I was the big boss with umbrella? Why the umbrella I hear you ask? Why not? It does what we wanted it to do, it makes you question why? It's odd, an umbrella indoors, the sprinklers were due to come on any minute due to a fire in the next storage room, I needed to witness the execution to ensure his job was done before I left to safety. Oh and in case you were wondering where we got the gun, it was a cardboard cut out! (The joys of silhouettes, hides a multitude of sins hey.) each Silhouette was shot individually, it was only in post editing that they were all brought together. To see how the final piece was put together see below.

For a two hour mini task I think the result was quite impressive and very effective in narrating the film noir category. If I had more time I would add the sprinklers into the scene! Let me know your thoughts. Lea x

 Background; I created a levels adjustment layer to lift the darkness as the original image was very really dark and I wanted to highlight the light entering the room from the windows to enhance to silhouetted figures.

Silhouettes Layer was created by opening each individual silhouette portrait, I then used the Magic Wand Selection Tool and refined the edge with a 25 feather I then created a new layer with the selection and dragged this onto the background image. I used this same technique for all three silhouetted figures. I then used the free transform tool and the perspective and warp tool to correct the size of each subject to allow them to sit correctly within the background scene.

Shadow Layer was created quite easily. I simply duplicated each subjects silhouette onto a new layer then reduced the opacity and free transformed to flip and manipulate making sure I was aware of the light source from behind.

Smoke layer was created by opening a smoke texture as a new layer, I downloaded a series of textures from Deviant Art. I placed this as the top layer and changed it to Exclusion and reduced opacity to 53% to create the effect I desired.

The Language of Flowers- Floriography- An insight

Wiki: The language of flowers, sometimes called floriography, is a means of cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers. Meaning has been attributed to flowers for thousands of years, and some form of floriography has been practised in traditional cultures throughout Europe, Asia and the the Middle East. Plants and flowers are used as symbols in the Hebrew Bible--particularly of love and lovers in the Song of Songs, as an emblem for the Israelite people an the coming Messiah -- and of Jesus in the New Testament. In Western Culture, William Shakespeare ascribed emblematic meanings to flowers, especially in Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

Interest in floriography soared in Victorian England and the United States during the 19th century. Gifts of blooms, plants and specific floral arrangements were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian society. Armed with floral dictionaries , Victorians often exchanged small  "talking bouquets", called nosegays or tussie-mussies, which could be worm=n or carried as a fashion accessory.

Two very important aspects of Victorian Life was the language of flowers and the Pre-Raphaelite movement. These aspects merged into one in many beautiful pieces of artwork. Expressing emotion and meaning into their artwork as many people during that time could not read. The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rosetti and William Holman Hunt. The groups intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be mechanistic approach adopted by the Mannerist artists who followed Raphael and Michelangelo. ( Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood-wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

I have included below a few examples of pieces of art from the period in question and attempted to interpret what the artist was trying to tell the viewer through the language of flowers.

The Pre-Raphaelite paintings are known for their idealistic portrayal of women, their emphasis on nature and morality, and their use of literature and mythology. Flowers are highlighted in many of these painting. The Victorian era, when language of flowers was spoken by everyone.

Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Venus Verticordia 1863-8

 She hath the apple in her hand for thee, 

Yet almost in her heart would hold it back;

She muses, with her eyes upon the trach

Of that which in thy spirit they can see.

Haply, 'Behold, he is at peace', saith she;

'Alas! the apple for his lips,- the dart

That follows its brief sweetness to his heart,-

The wandering of his feet perpetually!'

A little space her glance is still and coy;

But if she give the fruit that works her spell,

Those eyes shall flame as for her Phrygian boy.

Then shall her birds strained throat the woe foretell,

And far seas moan as the single shell,

And through her dark grove strike the light of Troy.

Honeysuckle is used to create a barrier between Venus and her viewer: the flower itself represents bonds of love, generosity and devoted affection.

Pink/Red roses symbolise grace and admiration (pink) and love (red)

The other symbols/ signifiers within the image are butterflies, an apple, and an arrow pointing to the left breast. Her cascading red hair and full red lips could be a representation of her passion and femininity. The apple is closely linked to Eve as is Venus, so I think the apple is representing her innocence/virginity and she is offering it but also holding it closely to her chest. I think the arrow is a symbol of Venus ready to fall in love as it is pointing to her heart and is a symbol recognised with cupid, who by means of this arrow helps people to fall in love. I noticed that there is also a bird featured in the top right of the image. I think this along with the butterflies represents freedom and Venus virginity.

Sir John Everett Millais, Bt, Ophelia 1851-2

This images is of the drowning of Ophelia FROM Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Picking flowers on the river bank, Ophelia slips and falls into the river and drowns. Mad with grief after her fathers murder by Hamlet, her lover, she allows herself to drown and die.

The flowers she holds are symbolic: the poppy represents death, daisies represent innocence and pansies mean to love in vain.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lady Lilith 1866-8

Lady Lilith appears to be sat in her bedroom if you observe the objects in the background, however I doubt that this is the case as the image is also teaming with flowers so it may be in the gardens, noting the reflection of the candles confirms that it is not a window in the top left but a mirror so I would say the location was the garden.

Lady Lilith's self-absorbed gaze both parallels male voyeurism and reverses it. she seems completely satisfied with herself. 

Cold, white roses --  symbols of sterile passion are featured in the top right of the image and spread out across the line of her hair. If you look closely there are a few still pink, suggesting that the roses first 'blushed' when meeting Eve.

Poppies -- symbol of death or sleep and forgetfulness ( bottom right)

Foxgloves -- indicate sincerity ( under the mirror)



*This information will be heavily used in my final feature for Unit 48 in Narrative Imagery, since i have decided that I will be featuring a series of narrative images consisting of Victorian Silhouetted portraits double exposed with flowers to represent the subjects personality.

 Floriography click on this link to be directed to an excellent site for information on the Language of Flowers.

Please see my other posts within this blog. For related research and practice.

Narrative Image example by me!

The photography above has got to be, at this moment in time my favourite image. Why? Well first of all the subjects are my world, my two beautiful daughters.
I wanted to create a scene that wishes the viewer a happy Christmas but also included in the well wishes a little of the girls characters, or in this case alot!

Sarah is the eldest at 14 and Evie is 3 (and a half!). Their relationship is very loving and affectionate but most of the time turbulent with plenty of ups and downs. You wouldn't think there was a ten year age gap the way they bicker at times!
In order for me to capture this love hate (but mostly love) relationship I decided to do this particular scene.
Sarah is ALWAYS telling Evie to be quiet as she is quite a chatterbox and I thought the title of the Christmas carol SILENT NIGHT would be quite apt.
The main signified are the Christmas hats, the tinsel and tape. The hats tell the viewer its Christmas time along with the tinsel. The tinsel is also used to tie up Evie to keep her in one spot as she is very rebellious when it comes to doing what Sarah asks, I also used tinsel as it is alot softer visually than tape or rope haha. (also I think social services may have been in touch) The tape placed over Evies mouth to tell the viewer that it was Sarah telling the story as she wished for a silent night, hence why the tapE is on Evies mouth.  I also instructed the girls to pose in that manner, Sarah holding the tinsel with a big cheesy smile displays a message of "mission accomplished". Evie stood in a passive stance with a shcocked expression which also has a cheekiness to it thanks to the look in her eyes and again reaffirming the message by looking up to Sarah asaying "you win".

The colours chosen are symbolic christmas colours, red and green. I chose a high key light set up to enhance the subjects. I did not want any background distraction as the girls where the main and only subject. I used this image for christmas cards to my family and friends and found adding the text SILENT NIGHT was the finishing touch.

Sequential Narrative Imagery- including Duane Michael & mini storyboard task

Today we were introduced to Storyboard photography, otherwise known as Sequential Narrative Imagery. It's quite simple, unlike the artists such as Annie Leibovitz or Tim walker who use just one single image to tell the whole story, sequential narrative imagery in loves images displaying the beginning, middle and end of the story.  We looked at the inspiring work of Duane Michaels, his work involving sequence in a way that i have never come across with any other photographer I know. Duane was the first photographer to cross the boundary in the 1960's and introduce conceptual, narrative imagery to the world where documentary styled photography was the norm. As quoted by Michaels 

``American photography`s always dealt with going out and documenting the facade of a building. It`s very seldom dealt with the interior landscape. . . . my kind of photography has really been somewhat of a wolf in a hen house, in the sense that in America it hasn't been accepted that much. It is accepted now, but it`s a relatively new notion, to sit down and think about something and make it happen, rather than looking for it.``

Michaels work consisted of around 9-15 images, with various techniques such as double exposure and slow shutter speed and motion blur to create emotion to add to the story. He later went on to add handwritten headers for each image to ensure the viewers had an idea of the emotion or subject the image was trying to evoke.

My favourite sequence so far by Michaels is Things are Queer 1973, I love his surrealism and in this particular series I like the way the story comes full circle so there isn't really a beginning, middle or end even though it does tell a story, very clever and inspiring indeed!

Another example of sequential imagery was the work of Muybridge. His work is a great example of the basics of sequential narrative imagery, purely for scientific reason, he documented the bio mechanics of the human body and animals etc. 

muybridge: sequential images from single or different cameras; sensation or perception of the surface of the moving body.

We were given a small task to experiment with sequential narrative imagery in class. In threes we were given a name for our storyboard. We then had 15 minutes or so to go out as a team and shoot a storyboard. Our word was suspicion. 

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The storyboard images were taken with my iPhone camera and put together with a collage app. 

Clockwise from top left, image 1 shows a text asking can I talk, image 2 reveals the readers identity as me, image 3 shows another person looking at their phone also, image 4 reveals that we are both in the same room and that another colleague is also suspicious with the simultaneous message alerts from the both of us. The last image 4 is revealing the screen of the phone in image 4, an innocent bank alert text. As viewers we were led to believe that the persons in image 2 and 3 were texting each other and that the text in image 1 was from the person in image 3. Suspicion.

Given the time we had to create a story and photograph and present I thought our storyboard was effective and needed only a little explanation. I thought the title we had was quite difficult. For example a simple quick themed storyboard titled happy could include a series of images consisting of a head and shoulder portrait of someone with a straight face to a soft smile to a big cheesy grin.

This particular storyboard could have been more effective if we had more time but given that it was a half hour mini task we were happy with our results.

Tim Walker (Artists specialising in narrative imagery)

Tim Walker

Tim Walker is a British fashion photographer, his work has featured for over a decade month by month in Vogue. After graduating in 1994 he was a freelance photographic assistant. He then moved to New York to become Richard Avendons assistant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Avedon).

At the age of 25 he had his first fashion image featured in Vogue although his earlier work after returning to London was Portrait and Documentary.

In a recent video interview (see link below) Tim cant stress enough that a session plan is invaluable to his work! He spends days sometimes weeks or months planning a specific photo shoot, establishing what mood he wants to portray, what the image "smells" like!
He also likes to throw homages in the mix when making his shoots, replicating vintage photos by revered photographers.

Here is a link to an excellent video featuring Tim Walker, his interview I find particularly inspiring!

http://showstudio.com/project/in_fashion/tim_walker

Horst P. Horst otherwise known as Horst Bohrmann was a German American photographer, famous for his contribution to the fashion industry with his beautiful images. Edward Stechein was another well known photographer who used his painting background to create striking portraits, while Philip Halsman was a regular Dali cohort, who also used surrealism regularly in his fashion shoots.

Tim Walker Tales of the Unexpected

Horst P. Horst’s Dali Costumes

Tim Walkers Magical World

Horst P. Horst’s Dali Costumes

For eg. the image below which was featured in the Italian Vogue was inspired by a visit to the TATE, which was featuring some of the pre raphaelite Millais work.

Pre Raphaelite = red heads, language of flowers etc

Walker cast three people, the mood was Millais pre raphaelite, he merged all the elements together such as the red heads and the chiaroscuro, bonding the strong contrasts of the lights and dark.  

Simon Costin, Shona heath and Andy Hillman are his set designers and their work massively contributes towards creating the fantasy environments Walker achieves.

Edward Stechein’s Parasol

Tim Walker Fairy Time

MOTORBIKE IN BALLROOM
I think this image portrays characters at a ballroom dance, the balloons representing the girls /young women and the motorcycle representing the rebel guy character! Swoon!

GUINEVERE VAN SEENUS,
OXFORDSHIRE, UK, 2011
ITALIAN VOGUE
I think this image represents different stages of sleep and dreamland, the whole composition of the image is very similar to The Death of Sardanopolis by Delacroix, even the main light source comes from the same angle.
 The image is mid key and taken with narrow aperture of f16 or above on a tripod with a slow shutter speed. The models on the floor have movement created by this slow shutter speed, creating a ghostly or frozen in time look about them. i think each model was captured on their own and then four composite layers carefully placed on top of each other. The tiny tilt of the lampshades adds to the disarray and gives a sense of  aggressive energy around the bed area.

THE DRESS/LAMP TREE
NORTHUMBERLAND, ENGLAND, 2002

GUINEVERE VAN SEENUS,
OXFORDSHIRE, UK, 2011
ITALIAN VOGUE

http://timwalkerphotography.com/biography.php