Original Image.

With this image, especially like the leading lines involved. I vividly remember one of Zavialov’s “Instant Moments” image, where a model sat in the centre of a bridge (which I believe was in the middle of a forest) and took an “Instant Moment” style image of her. With that particular image, the railing of the bridge had a leading line, carrying the whole way throughout the image - even throughout the Polaroid photograph. Due to the spontaneity of this shoot, it was the railing which caught my eye, as I was walking past, and I just couldn't ignore it because it reminded me of Zavialov’s beautiful image. I placed my model in the centre, similar to Zavialov’s, and took a Polaroid photograph, I then took many photographs with my iPhone because I wanted the railing to line up perfectly - so I left myself with many choices to choose my favourite one. I feel as if this leading line gives the path a mysterious atmosphere, yet at the same time the nature and the harmonious colours (of the blue and green) and create a sunny and happy mood.Both of these factors working together gives a very interesting look, which grasps the viewers attention and draws them into the image. I think that this was a very successful shoot, and it links well with my “The World Around Us” theme because, although my other shoots had natural components to make it pleasing, this was more of a man-made component (due to the railing) yet it still looks just as interesting and naturally beautiful, which I think is a strong message about "The World".

Final Image.

When taking this shoot, I was in a rush because I was on the way to my “Nancy Sea Shoot” and I didn't want to miss the ‘golden hour’ sunlight. Therefore, I didn’t have time to allow the Polaroid to fully develop, resulting in a lighter photo with far more noise than I would have liked. As a result, i took some ‘backup’ images of my model with my iPhone - planning to use Adobe Photoshop to edit them both together. This is precisely what I did, later on.

I opened Adobe Photoshop and removed the inner-frame of the Polaroid. This actually took quite a long time because I took the image at a slight angle so I couldn't just cut it all out with one large square like I did for the developments of my “Nancy Sea” image. I actually played around with a few images to go inside of the Polaroid frame, before settling on the one with the model’s back turned, with her face looking back at the camera. I chose this one because I thought it looked different to my original image and I wanted to ‘switch things up’ and experiment with a new pose. After combining both images, I opened Adobe Lightroom and made a few adjustments. I cropped the frame to 1x1 to replicate the Instagram-style frame, which Zavialov uses most commonly. I then made a few minor adjustments to make the blue and green colours more vibrant and prominent because I wanted these harmonious colours to stand out to make the image more pleasing. I then made final adjustments, such as removing the small ridge in the physical Polaroid and adjusting the very cold/reddish colour of my hand to make it more subtle - I finally added the Zavialov-style preset, which I created, to add texture and grain to replicate Zavialov’s style of texture on his images.