Intro

This is the project that I intend to submit for AoP Student awards. I initial idea was to shoot a series of portraits of everyday women in a way that would make them feel good about themselves, the point being that you don’t need to be a real model to be beautiful and feel good about yourself. At first I was excited about this idea but I began to struggle with it as I found it hard to find women that were happy for me to photograph and when I did manage to take photographs I wasn’t happy with what I got and I don’t think that I really achieved what I set out to do.
My new plan for the project is ‘Nature is Beauty’. This was something I came across by accident when I was lacking inspiration and decided to just shoot for myself and no other reason. I found that photographing plants and editing them in a stylised way created something really commercial.
To continue with this idea I intend to explore various things. I don’t want to just shoot any kind of plant I want to photograph plants that have a quality about them such as especially beautiful or interesting.
I want to try shooting both outdoors and indoors in the mini studio and using a high quality camera.