Fairytales Photoshoot

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For my fairytale photo shoot, I’d do Red Riding Hood. I have a black cape(I can look for a red one if that’s an issue) and take the photos upstate in my friends backyard. He lives in a woodsy area and he has a big pit bull I can use as my wolf. Dogs aren’t supper obedient so it might be easier to take separate photos of Red Riding Hood then some of the dog. But I will try and get the model and dog to pose together. 

Final Photo shoot plan

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2 Female subject, 1 male subjects

What your project will be (which nursery rhyme/fairy tale).
– Pandora’s Box (Myth)
– Ring Around the Rosie (Dark undertone) Black plague

Your are your plans to shoot this and tell the narrative over your 10 photo portfolio?

  1. Pandora’s Box (myth): I’m hoping to shoot a female model as Pandora the first woman created by the Gods in Greek mythology. Pandora was created to be the wife of Epimetheus, after his brother Prometheus gave the gift of fire to man. Pandora was the holder of a box that was said to carry all the world’s evils (illness, violence, hate, envy, etc). The legend says that her curiousity led her to open the box leaving only hope inside. I want to capture my subject carrying around a box, she’s trying her best to protect the box but she’s also very curious about it. She holds it up and looks at it in the sun, she gets distracted for a few moments and the box falls out of her hand. All the evils are released into the world (represented by colored powder), leaving pandora distraught. She’s left only with hope and she seals it back inside the box.

Ring Around the Rosie (Dark nursery rhyme):  i want to do this shoot in black and white, beginning with the focus on white flowers being held by female subject. She walks holding the flowers and a male subject is seen over her shoulder blurred in the background. As he gets closer he’s wearing a mask with a bird’s beak. She begins picking the petals off the flower dropping them on the ground. She seems to be hiding from the masked man, eventually he finds her. Female subject walks off with the masked man, leaving a now dead flower only the stem and the last few petals around it.

Stanley Kubrick Exhibit – Extra Credit

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Stanley Kubrick was a photographer turned filmmaker. He began taking pictures at an early age for Look Magazine, where he captured the highs and lows of his hometown, New York City, during the postwar era. A lot of his pictures look very spontaneous and (rightfully so) cinematic. His style may be considered an early ‘street photography’. I was mesmerized to see how well he was able to take the perfect candids. Most of his subjects seem completely unaware that there was a camera and even when he worked in series of portraits for celebrities, the pictures appear completely natural and unposed.  One thing that is consistent through all of Kubrick’s pictures (and is why he know best for) is his technique of capturing human emotion. He snapped moments at the perfect time which gave the audience a story and a understanding of what was going on.

Here are two favorites from the exhibition:

I like this picture because of the light behind the subjects. It helps them stand out and it also adds a cinematic feel to the picture overall.  I also love the man’s expression of happiness and the way he sneaky looks at the camera.

This was my absolute favorite picture from the exhibition (I even bought a print!). This is a bit different of what a Kubrick photo is like because the subject is looking directly at the camera but at the same time it gives the feel that the moment was spontaneous.