The Shoot

On Monday my friend was coming over to let me take photographs of her in the umbrellas and wellies. I had cut the waits band off a pair of my brothers basketball shorts, then I also clipped off the fabric part of the umbrella and cut it at the point large enough so it would fit around her waist. I then cut up another umbrella but made the hole smaller just to fit around her neck. When I first tried to get the fabric off the umbrella I made it really difficult for myself by trying to clip every wire, I wanted some to still be on the fabric to give it volume while on the model. However my abilities to do such a thing were non existent and thus I had to find a different approach, this approach turned out to be much simpler and less time consuming. I just ripped it off basically.

Detaching the wires with wire cutters

Cutting off the top to make a nice circle in the middle of the material

Ripping off the fabric from the wires 

The waist band of the shorts being used for the waist band of my skirt (All images authors own) 

I had timed the shoot right with the sunset, so the lighting was directly on my model which helps the photos come out a lot sharper. I did not focus to much on the background because my plan is to cut her out of the photos kind of like a paper doll. However looking back I wish I had done a photo shoot where the background and whole setting was nice so I could have a combination of nice cut outs and just photographs.

I also wish I had styled my model in more colours. The publication I chose generally is very bright, they use a lot of pastel, brighter, funner colours than the ones I used.