fstopinertia – photography of angela marklew

One of my recent assignments for my workshop was to shoot a portrait of someone and incorporate a mode of transportation as a design element.  Let me tell you, I thought about every possible method of transportation and the only things that inspired me were things I had absolutely no access to (small airplanes, hot air balloons, etc).  Everything I did have access to (cars, bikes, skateboards) bored me to death.  I had NO ideas – this was a major problem.  So finally I decided to take the most basic method of transportation – the wheel – and use it to create shadows in the hopes of producing a very graphic black and white image.  Immediately after I shot, I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that I just didn’t get what I set out to do…however, after a few days I was completely happy with the result.

It’s a common practice of mine to let my images sit a few days after a shoot before I look at them – it gives my emotions from the shoot day a chance to dissipate, so I can look at the images with fresh eyes.
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My team and I recently got together to do a beauty editorial inspired by the hair and make up of the 1980’s.  My model, Alexandra, wasn’t even born until 1990 (which makes me feel old) – but she did an amazing job.

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A few weeks ago I decided to finally put a new (bigger) hard drive in my computer.  My computer had been running strangely and so it was decided that the best thing would be to reinstall everything from scratch.  This was no big deal since all my files are kept on external hard drives.  The only thing I was dreading was re-importing everything into Lightroom – luckily it went much smoother than I hoped for.  Not only that, but as I was going through all the folders to make sure my ratings etc had made it through the import, I got to re-visit old shoots.  In particular, a shoot from December 6th, 2007 caught my eye.  I decided to look at the images with fresh eyes and re-edit to see if my aesthetics had changed much.  I actually ended up choosing the same poses I chose the first time around (with an additional portrait thrown into the mix).  Then the fun part became retouching the old images with my current retouching aesthetic.  While the original retouched images from 2007 are still among my favourites, the newly retouched image has a completely different feel.  I’m really not sure if I even prefer one over the other.  What do you think?

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