Summer Essay Book Balogna

Summer Essay Book Cover

Location: School Studio

Model: Justin

      For This assignment, i needed to execute a photograph that ran parallel to the summer essay we were all assigned to write. Although the essay i wrote spoke of an image that consisted of Vaclav Havel, who was the president of Czechoslovakia with a mirror he saw himself in, aswell as his wife Olga strolling through a courtyard just outside the window. Obviously this was no easy task, so i pulled away the main points of my image and had a model, with a mirror he saw himself in which represented the theme of the novel i read, self-realization. 

      I really liked the mirror i borrowed from our schools drama/theatre department. It is wooden, free-standing, and very dusty and fit good with the concept of my picture. I had my model wear a cardigan and a long sleeve shirt-all will neutral/dark colors. i wanted his presence as well as the mirror to be the focus points, not his clothes. I used two hot lights, one on either side of the model. I also had stephanie aswell as lexi hold the black sheet behind me so that the reflection in the mirror was the model and black behind him, not the red couch and k-arts supplies that was in the studio. This shoot was successful and actually didnt take long at all. i was satisfied with the outcome.