Aims:

To work on my weak areas and produce images suitable for my portfolio, love magazine and I.D magazine

Research on both of these- experimental, weird and wonderful, story

Theme: Dark fairytale emotional, Romantic

Procedures:

3 photo shoots:

Studio
studio
location- constructed scene

I need to find models/hair and makeup artists, stylists

I have decided to look at fantasy and fairytale photography because I love the creativity involved. I also really enjoy it because it’s an escape from the real world and an easy way for me to run away to new world. I love the idea of fairy tale lands it seems to soften the hard times in life. I get so lost in the work of my favorite photographer, Tim walker. He has always inspired me to enhance my child like imagination rather than ignore it. 

 Tim Walker' Work

Tim walker, a Fashion photographer is a daydreamer and a fantasist. He seems to live in his own world which is what I love about him because I do too. His pictures tell stories created from a wonderful and seemingly child like imagination. 'Looking at Tim’s photographs is like following the white rabbit into a world where elephants are painted blue, horses are dusted lilac, paintings come to life and pretty girls with Thirties faces are transformed into marionettes or abandoned princesses' - Charlotte Sinclair 2008

Fairy Tale Inspired Fashion Sets:

Polyvore.com have taken fairy tales and assembled outfit sets out of them on their blog:

The Princess & the Frog:

Little Red Riding Hood

The Princess & the Pea:

Things that I need to improve on during this project are:

Studio lighting
working with people I don't know very well
post production
make up and styling

Fairy Tale

ou can't just walk outside and snap a picture of a fairy," says Andrea Kohler. "You need imagination to create one."

Kohler, along with digital photography students Katherine Turner, Stacy Olenoski, and Susanne Mugford, shot a photo series featuring Kohler as a fairy "with curls in my hair, gauzy wings, some glittery make-up, and a little bit of sparkle," she says. A detail from one of those images appears on the cover of this magazine. ------------------------->

Inspired by photographer Julia Margaret Cameron's angels and fairies, Kohler tried to create similar "lyrical" effects with her choices of materials, lighting, and color.

Her team used a Megavision Digital View camera, which captures three separate color shots — cyan, magenta, and yellow — with a five second interval between each, then combines them to create the final image. "So if I made the slightest movement between shots," explains Kohler, "you could see the individual color where the movement occurred.

"We liked the effect of the smears of color created by motion, so we moved the fairy wings and redraped the chiffon while the lens was open." The photographers also waved lace and chiffon scarves in front of the lens, creating a misty or filmy softness, adds Kohler.

The fairy series is unique, because the photographs were not digitally enhanced. "We wanted to create effects while taking the picture instead of afterwards," says Kohler, "so we let the creativity flow."

— Alison Balmat

I absolutely love this effect, i think its so magical and exciting! id love to create something as wonderful as this!