FINAL RECREATION!

Okay so I've finally finished my final recreation, and I've got to say I'm so happy with it! I was worried at how it would turn out but it looks pretty similar to its original, so I'm happy :)

After all the initial planning I finally shot my photos last Monday, I'm glad i got it out the way asap as well because its given me time to really look through all the photos and edit them if needed.

Here's the original;

And here's my recreation :) !;

I'm really pleased with the final image! As you can see here, well hopefully you can't really tell but I've used a bed sheet to recreate the dress and that was what i was worrying about the most. I couldn't find a dress that draped as well as in the picture and I had to consider colour and material as well, so after looking EVERYWHERE I decided to go for a HUGE double bed sheet as I'd have loads of material to work with and  it was also the same colour, so I draped it around my model and pinned it into place.

Another obstacle was the white cloth. It doesn't look great in my recreation and if I were to do it again I would have probably spent more time on getting it right, because in the original image its shaped a lot different and it was hard to get it right, also the pose was so hard to recreate, the way the right arm/elbow was positioned and in relation to the white cloth just couldn't be done by any of us so I think the way it was painted the right arm was lengthened slightly, or well it was a very awkward pose so that was tricky.

The hair and makeup went very well indeed and I'm pleased with both, I also love the lighting and think our photographer did an amazing job with that! Ive had a closer look and also notice a safety pin on the bed sheet.. oops! Big mistake, the picture has already been edited so when i learn to actually use photo shop I'll be sure to edit that out!

All in all I'm really pleased with the result and think it went great :) ! I enjoyed this shoot more than the others because the other 2 we did felt a lot more amateur as they weren't done in a lighting studio like this one, but actually dressing the model and tweaking the hair and dress etc on set was a lot of fun and i loved working with a photographer, it gave me more of an insight into what styling would really be like in the real world :)