Environmental piece

Location: Old Town, San Diego

Model: Ileana

For this shoot i wanted to show the inner self of the model, from my perspective. I feel like these pictures really show the model as she is. She wants to start modeling and so she throws herself out into the wilderness and is vulnerable to every little thing anyone is capable of saying about her and her integrity, which creates alot of insecurity within her mind. These feelings of insecurity may not always be on her face but it always seems to shine through. She definitely uses her sexuality to comes across as confident but it is usually very vulgar and makes the viewer feel like this 18 year old has lost all innocence. I manipulated all of these pictures in photoshop to create either more or less contrast to highlight the nature around the model. For the lighting i used the natural light around the environment, like the sun, when the sun was going down as well as my flash when we were in darker areas of the trees. These pictures work for me aswell as the model because i like the way she is shown and she likes having more pictures for her portfolio.