[PHOTOSHOOTS] Collaging + final outcome

For Oliver's ones, we printed the photos out and pasted on our tee designs. The process was really time consuming as the perspectives were really hard to get it right. We liked the textures a lot after printing them out and scanning them back in again. 

                           

I then pasted them back onto the original photo and it gave a really interesting layering effect. 

Made black and white version for the background. It gave a even bigger contrast and the teeshirt pops out more.

However, the collage still looked a bit empty. In order to add more textures to make the composition look richer, I then drew some random sketches on paper and scanned them in. I pasted them onto the collage and applied "multiply" effect to make it look like I actually drew on top of the collage. 

As for Brian, his photos looked kind of yellowish, we started off by tuning the colours into a lower temperature. We were kind of stuck for Brian's ones as we were already so drained by dealing with Print house's delay and dealing with the preparation work for the market, and our own individual products presentation. Therefore, we went simple for Brain's. 

I also did the same for Brian's photos. Cutting out his original photos and stuck on our tees with the right perspectives. 

Final collages

 

[PHOTOSHOOTS] Distance photoshoot photos (photobooth)

On the other hand, the Photo Booth photos from Brian and Oliver were sent over through email. The photos looked very interesting as all we did was telling them the concept that we wanted them to shoot for and asked. them to go wild and do whatever they want. We enjoyed looking at their pictures and began to manipulate them. As both of them are abroad, and we didn't have time send them our tees, we photoshopped put tees onto them and did some collage work. 

Original photos 

We told Brain we wanted the photos to be literally crazy. As he has a really crazy personality too, he nailed it. 

For Oliver, we told them our concept for Please Love Me. As they are an artist themselves, we trusted them. The pics turned out looking bomb too! We loved their cat and their eyed lamp!! So next step, we are going to start collaging. 

[PHOTOSHOOTS] Editing photos + final outcome

 First edit 

            

I tuned the photos a bit to get a more cleared look of the product itself. As we have yellow paint on white tee, we have to make the yellow pop out more with a high contrast and increased whites. As I personally like pictures to look a little darker than usual, I edited each of them one by one to get a less bright outcome.  

For Kemina's photos, I also tried editing them to make the tee design pop out more. Oppositely, I lowered the contrast of Kemina's ones. However, we found out that we we stick to our initial concept, having Kemina's ones bombard and Gillian's ones calming, the editing should switch. To get a more calming effect, Gillian's ones should have contrasts lowered instead. However, considering the fact that highering the contrast of Gil's ones and having a washed out effect for Kemina's ones would look best for the photos. Therefore, we gave up sticking to our concept when ti comes to editing and kind of switched them. 

Final outcome

After having a meeting with Sonja we thought that kemina's ones looked alright, but when it comes to posting on instagram having all photos cramped in the grid, the two photoshoot pictures do not look good with each other. Gillian's ones were obviously too dark. I then edited all the photos again and increased the exposure and lowered the blacks. 

We previewed all the outcomes on one screen to see if the tones go well with each other, after the second edit, they finally looked cohesive. We then posted them on our instagram.

[PHOTOSHOOTS] Shooting day with Gillian

We met Gillian at 2pm at a mall near my home. This time, we have a friend tagging along as we need someone to drive and we thought having someone who knows how to take decent photos would be good for us. We targeted the small goldfish pools and paid for a couple of slots for the shoot. We asked for permission and shoot some pictures with flash on. 

As we had no experience in this kind of shoots, this was a bit more challenging as we realised that a black tee does not absorb lights and it is difficult to take good pictures with the product being captured clearly. We took pictures fo the black tee for. around an hour and ended up asking Gillian to get change onto the white one. After changing into the white one, things got a lot more smoother.  We also went upstairs to these claw crane area. Took many pictures with the dolls reflected on the machine service, creating a messy and bombard feeling as we planned. 

We then bought some food at the mall as it is a really famous place with many street food. The process went on really well and really casual like having out with a bunch of friendly, wandering around eating food. It was exactly what we wanted the atmosphere to be. We then drove to the west Kowloon promenade for the second part fo the shoot. It rained and we kind of panicked for bit. But then it turned out the rain helped a lot in creating that lonely and tranquil feeling. Plus it was already nighttime, which makes the atmosphere even more deserted and empty. 

We ended the shoot there and had a lot of quality pics taken. We played around with different camera settings and angles and ended up getting unexpected results. We took most of the pictures with flash on as we did look at people's fashion photography work and we both liked pictured taken with flash more as it gives off a more street vibe. 

Same, Sonja did the first elimination and sent over the photos. I then organised them into folders and chose the ones that looked best to me. Here are some chosen ones.