Week 18 Gaia underwater fashion

This week i finished my Gaia project, Overall I am very happy with my final outcomes, for my ability I feel they have come out better than I thought they would.

I found it extremely hard to get access to a pool to shoot in, I got no responses from my emails, and people I knew with pools didn’t have them working over the winter months. It was proving near on impossible to find somewhere and I really started to panic as the deadline was creeping up. I decided then to phone around loads of hotels in my local area hoping someone would let me shoot in their pool, after many no’s finally someone said yes, and I was actually taken back and then didn’t know quite what to say. I got a few more details together and called the manager back and arranged a day where the pool would be at its quietest.

The pool itself was perfect, for starters it was empty, painted blue with no tiles (much easier for post production) and the roof was all glass so the light was fantastic.

To push my idea even further and to link it back to the original Gaia theory, I wanted to make it look as though my model was swimming in a flooded street. I took some photographs of houses and high-rise flats. Online Photoshop tutorials are really helpful and so I used some to help me to make my images look underwater.

The camera I used was not totally ideal for this project, but I still feel I got some pretty good images from it. I would definitely like to take this idea further, the manager of the hotel was really nice and helpful and so I feel she would allow me access again. I am going to try and produce a personal project with hiring out casing for my Slr camera.