Objective
taking note of some of the things in thoms room was very insiteful as it gave me an idea of what thoms personal life showed, giving me ideas for aesthic componsets, his fasination with out dated technolgy, like his camcorder and cassete tapes. the make up he owned, the soft plushes and other nick naks.
Software
while we were shooting in thom’s room, he wanted to show me some of the software he used to create his music, like logic, a industry standard, I personally dont understand whats happening but looking at the waveforms and sampling technqiues was very intresting, along with the stong colors used made it very compelling to look at
fabric texture
looking around at thom’s place i noticed a lot of soft materials that provided some unique textures. one of thoms shirts showed a pattern of Japanese beckoning cats (Maneki-neko), they are often seen as charms meant to bring good luck to their owners.
thom will often waer skinny jeans and is a contrasting texture to what is seen in the top half of his appearnce. this similarity could be linked to his abrsive music
test shoots
before going into the stufio with thom i wanted to get comfortable taking photos with thom, and so that he was ok in from of the camera.
this allowed me to practice some shots with thom before heading into the studio so we wouldnt waste time when it came time as this was our first time shooting together
i captured a range of midshots and close up shots of thom, seeing what works and what we could improve on. often in my photos, thom would have his hair in his eyes and made it awkward to shoot portraits. meaning i could only really shoot one side of his face limiting the angles i could get. thankfully we had scheduled a shoot for the 17.02.20, thom organized a to get a haircut before our next meet up.
Alex's Photos & Thoughts 