An assignment titled "Commercial Photographic Shoot Model" was set a for us a while ago by the college. The brief was to do a dual location shoot, incorporating male and female clothing in one internal and one external location.

Initially, we had to present a proposal of what we intended to do. I'd planned shoots of models wearing various headwear in different locations. Having in mind something that might look like a fashionable catalogue shoot, I also wanted a story element to the images.

However, I soon became uninterested in my plan. It was a fine plan, and ticked all the boxes for the brief. But I felt I was doing it purely for ticking those boxes, rather than try to make something interesting. Admittedly, I focused my attention on other assignments, such as creating my website and the Millennium Images assignment. Another student suggested I change my initial proposal to creating landscape images with clothing in them. At first I dismissed this, as we weren't really meant to change the plan. But quickly I felt strongly, that I should do what I wanted to do, rather than battle through.

I went back to thinking about clothing in landscapes and from there onto lost and found clothing. I also thought about stereotypical images of clothes being left on stairs or bedroom floors and began to have idea about clothing representing a male and female couple. I wrote a new plan, which included having the clothing in water, and progressed with the shoot.

Parts of the shoot were difficult, getting clothes to look right underwater was tricky and reflections proved to be problem. But I liked some of the images, a selection can be seen above. I don't think the images are very "commercial" they do however suit me more, even if they do need a little more work and the plan needs reassessing.