Say what you want about the man and all the controversies around him, but you can't deny the man knows how to photograph people. He knows how to shine someone's personality through an image and using such a simple set up, he creates such a high energy image.
As part of my HND Photography course, we were required to do a fashion photography module. And as part of that we had to do 4 different shoots. My first shoot was about printed t-shirts, I used my band t-shirt collection, and I adopted Richardson's technique.
With a bit of help from ilovehatephoto.com and www.diyphotography.net, I worked out what I'd need for my shoot. The DIY Photography used very similar equipment to what the college had available to me. Both sites suggested a prime lens, however I used my kit lens instead as I wanted to use the zoom on it. I used my Nikon D5500 and I borrowed a Nikon SB-900 Flashgun from the college. I used the college studio's white wall as a background. The flashgun is attached to the camera and that is the most basic lighting set up ever. I set my camera to f/8 and had a shutter of 1/200sec.
As I mentioned in my previous post, I used my friend Weronika as a model. Whilst doing the shoot, I kept my Pinterest board open so we could see poses and how we could replicate the images, not only by Richardson but by Juergen Teller as well.
I really enjoyed doing this style of shoot and I am very keen to do a similar one again soon. Just need to find a model and a location and buy myself a flashgun first.
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