Studio Lighting Assignment 1 - Fashion

For my portrait assignment I have decided to focus on fashion to portray. I am going to use the fashion brand 'AllSaints' to base my shoot on, this includes using there clothes on the models I use and I will also try to recreate similar photographs that AllSaints use to promote their campaigns/ products.
Some photographs that captured my attention are as follows...

I deliberately chose out the photographs from current and previous AllSaints look books in order to get some idea of how to set up the picture in terms of cropping, lighting, models, poses etc. Below is an interesting video which I found whilst researching, it gives a sneaky insight into how the photographs for the look books are taken. 




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsUnbdFbffg&feature=relmfu

I also intend to use one or two props to practise using props in the studio, getting the lighting right etc. Below are some examples of props that I have found.

I have chosen to use the following props...

I chose these two props because firstly the red chair is very old, approximately 200 years old, I think that it would fit in with the type of style that AllSaints has and also the hole in the middle of the backrest will allow the viewer to see the models clothing. The reason I like the step ladder is because there are many different positions that the model can adopt on the ladder during the shoot.

Model Poses

The poses that the models are taking are an important part of fashion shots, they can help to really sell the product/ style that the company are trying the sell. In my eyes, it is one of the fundamental parts of good portraiture. I really want to try some interesting and unique stances for the models, to try and give the photographs something different. Some examples of poses that I have seen through research are as follows. I am going to be using one of two props that I have mentioned earlier so the research images have been chosen in line with me idea of using props.

Final Images

Below are the final images from my studio fashion shoot. The shoot went really well and I am very pleased with my final outcomes however one thing that I did learn from this shoot is to be relaxed with your model to get more natural poses and better overall photographs from them.