Weight

These are some photographs I took based around weight. My original idea was to do long exposures of breathing to capture all the movements in the stomach, this was my attempt at it. I used a single Bowen's light with a soft box to the left of the frame, creating a thick shadow on the model's back. This highlights the detail on the model's body in the ribs and stomach.

I don't think the long exposure captured it well enough, although it was a good attempt, it can't be seen very clearly. The model moving made it blurrier rather than a long exposures, which put me off the idea. After that, I decided to photograph the model normally, and overlay the images on each other. I got the model to breath in as far as possible, and out as far as possible to create the biggest difference I could between the two states.

I massively prefer the overlapped version rather than the long exposures, it's a lot clearer rather than blurred. I did it on photoshop by overlaying the images, and making the top one a lower opacity so that the bottom photograph can be seen through it.

The intention with this work was to show the reality of a person's figure, and often how they see themselves. Although it's not the case with all of the people suffering from eating disorders or weight problems, a common mentality is seeing yourself a different size to what you are, motivating you to lose weight more, so I felt the work I produced was appropriate.