Preparation

Before I decided to do another shoot, I wanted to ensure that it would be brought to life with the right materials so I started looking in children’s stores for face paints to experiment with and hopefully successfully symbolise the immaturity of adolescence. The facepaints were used to paint masks on each individual model, to portray their personality. Red symbolising seduction and power, blue for rebellion and beauty each pair of models had a similar matching mask, to suggest that each personality doesn't have to apply to one specific sex.

Finding a range of models from different nationalities was a key concept for the meaning of the shoot, as growing up in an expatriate background I was surrounded by different cultures and nationalities from a young age.

After shadowing professional photographers, I was capable of setting up a studio-esque environment, and by using a black background the editing stages would be made easier, as the black would act as a 'blank canvas' for the merging of galaxy photographs without the hindrance of editing a white background. I adjusted the light frequency to suit the surroundings, as the black would act differently to light than a white background and by using a Sekonic L-3J8 I was able to time the lights to flash in co-ordination to the camera, for which I used my Canon D550 with a 18-135mm lens.