My shots

I have selected these 6 shots to form my personal exhibition. Although I didn't shoot many more than 7/8 people I had a wide selection of shots as for each person I took 5-10 images to ensure correct exposure and focus.

The first shot I took was the one below of Gaz. This sparked the idea and I loved the shallow depth of field and the way you get drawn into his eyes and facial features. This was everything I wanted to achieve without ripping of the work of Martin Schoeller and I think it's been successful!

Shooting the images outside really paid off, the shots are all bright and quite pleasant. I personally really like the backgrounds! They don't distract from the subject at all, if anything I think they draw attention to the centre of the frame which is what I was hoping to achieve. Some of the background worked better than others. I much preferred the backgrounds that were 'busy' and had a lot to blur our. The ones with simpler backgrounds were not that effective.

This makes me believe that not shooting in the studio was the right move. Having the below images on a plain white background would not have been as successful in my opinion!

In the end I decided to stick with using all males in my final 6 shots. I felt this made them more effective as a set and having a semi broad age range has helped give the set some variation.

I'm really pleased with how the images turned out!