Scorched Earth Trials

The most well known fact about climate change is the heat and it will get hotter the worse it gets. I wanted to portray this with the impacts it will have on us as well as the environment.
With both i decided to show the extreme affects. People think the heat will be good don't think about the sweat and dealing with it in every day life.

I've worked with creating sweat before and knew that glycerin gives the best effect. You can also make droplets easier with it as it is a bit thicker.
 For the heat shoot I felt prepared and knew what products I would be using.


For the Scorched Earth one I had an idea in mind but didn't know if it would work exactly as I wanted so decided to test with a few materials.

My inspiration for this idea came from dried up earth itself. I really liked how you could see the texture and variation in colours. It also has such a matte effect to it.

I first thought about using bandages and ripping them up and dying them as they would give that effect of a cracked earth however it just didn't work and ended up looking like seaweed.

I then thought about using fullers earth as it gives that effect of matte cracked earth and was inspired by Alex Box and a look I believe to be the same product or similar.

I knew i wanted the colour to show through the crusty layer that would form on top but was unsure how to get this to work. My initial thought was to use a water based product underneath so it wouldn't move too much when the fullers earth was added on top.

The effected worked well but I didn't know how it would work on the neck without trying it.

It did work out fine. It took longer to dry and after moving my head round for a bit it started to flake off a lot so I would have to keep this in mind when i do the shoot as towards the end it won't look as good. I also had trouble blending it nicely up the neck so will have to play around and practice more so I can achieve my desired effect.

Oil Spill Shoot

The shoot went well. I booked the studio late incase there was a lot of mess. I thought ahead and brought tarpaulin so the oil would be easily contained. We made sure the had the lighting right before adding the oil.

One thing I didn't think about was the oil having a high shine and the lights showing in it. When we were taking pictures from above the light showed in the oil on the floor.  It took a while for us to re adjust the lights and think about angles.

Below is a few images from the shoot.