For Zeus’ representation I decided that a Plasma ball could be quite interesting as it hold electricity and creates a sort of lightning bolt effect. I also love how it is in a sphere as Zeus’ is the God of the skies. I asked my boyfriend to Vape around the setup to create a cloudy effect, which I loved! I believe that it is a very interesting atmosphere.
I noticed that the aesthetic is very commercial like which, after talking to my tutor, made me realise that this is possibly something I would like to go into after University. I like to play with styling and colours, I feel it is the best way to be imaginative and creative within my photographic practice, and I can make it whatever I need it to be, I have full control over the set which makes me feel more in charge of my practice.
To get the lighting correct for this photoshoot, I had to find a large cardboard box and places black curtains inside and on the outside to stop any reflections going into the ball, although sometimes they look quite cool. I found it quite difficult to get the lighting on the ball and on the vapour to be matching, as the ball cannot have any reflections, it was very difficult to use flash however the ball already has lights within it, but the vapour did not, so I had to play around with where to place my flash so that it projected light onto the vapour but not onto the Plasma ball.
It was fun to play around, but I feel this does not necessarily prove my capability when it comes to stylizing, so after speaking with Kellie (one of my tutors), I think I would like to create more Tableaux based images, similar to Dominic Davies. As this way I can play around with symbolism and my imagination. I can also show off more commercial style photography and still have that fiction/ fantasy element to the images. I would also like to print the very big, as the Gods are very large in character and appearance.
We also discussed maybe focusing on 3 or 4 Gods rather than the full 12, which I believe would be a lot more practical as this way I can put more full attention into making 3 incredible photographs rather than attempting to make 12 passable images. I will go for either 3 or 4 as these are factors of 12 and this way i will still bring in the mathematical aspect of things.
