Stuart Hardman Photography

Spider-man shoot

2008-05-25T23:01:00.003Z

Not posted in a while... I did a photoshoot for Spider-man last week, but after a slight change in the direction of my work I decided to scrap my initial photos and re-shot the Spider-man photos.

The direction of my work is that I will now produce a series of superhero portraits which pay homage to the characters chosen. I will only use 1 image of each character with the intention of having the outcome of an exhibiton of large prints. The one's I will use so far are the most recently scanned Wolverine photo and the Catwoman picture of her looking at her reflection in the mirror, along with this newly shot Spider-man/Mary Jane image.

Wolverine comic book!

2008-05-15T15:59:00.002Z

Catwoman photos

2008-05-13T19:14:00.002Z

Been playing around with some images of catwoman today, using catwoman comics as a background...was just playing around but actually really like these...

New Wolverine photo.

2008-05-13T18:57:00.002Z

Today I scanned one of my negatives from the Wolverine shot to hopefully get a more in focus image to replace the 2nd wolverine photo, and worked on the image below. The image works so much better than the one before, though I still want to revisit this shoot to create better 3rd and 4th images.

2008-05-07T23:16:00.002Z

Saw this today which interested me alot as relates so much to my project. An exhibition at the Metz, created by Giorgio Armani entitled Superhero's: Fashion and Fantasy.
Would love to see it...maybe I can find the book!

http://www.metmuseum.org/special/superheroes/index.asp

Catwoman.

2008-05-07T22:55:00.004Z

Latest from the superhero shoot. This shoot was much more successful I think, with the mini-narrative showing the destruction of innocence, and the denial of anything "girly".

Wolverine.

2008-05-07T22:06:00.003Z

This is my first set of images for the superhero's project.
As explained in the brief, the images are to be created in to a magazine. One of each character against a white backdrop will work as the introduction page for there mini-narrative.
From a fashion angle, the clothes worked possibly a little too well, looking like a mimic of the character, i'm hoping that when part of the collection it will work better as having clothing suggestive of the character.
The first image works great for what I was aiming for, the model's exaggerated expressions work especially well.
The following images (which need editing) were to show Wolverine attaching his knives; looking back at them as he walks through the tunnel; and finally a double-page image suggesting he will attack the passer-by.
I'm happy with the intro image, yet feel I need to revsit this shoot to improve the standard of images for the mini-narrative, as I feel the images I made don't do this character justice.

New project - Superhero's

2008-05-07T21:53:00.000Z

Finally getting round to working on my blog, which I will be updating on a much regular basis from now on.
Working on a new project for term 3 of my 2nd year, in which I've decided to do something similar to my Disney shoot, but hopefully boosting production quality considerably.
My brief is as follows:

The project is to produce a series of fashion photographs based on popular superhero’s, with the market of a fashion magazine such as Dazed & Confused in mind.

Models will be dressed with everyday clothing, along with special props (such as masks) that will identify them as portraying a superhero. The superhero’s will be shot individually, and have one photo shoot together in order to create a front cover for a mini-magazine that I will produce.

Darker personality traits will be drawn out of what we know of the superheros, to depict a scenario where they are acting to a negative extreme suggested by their character. The character’s to be portrayed are Superman, Catwoman, Spiderman, Supergirl and Wolverine.

The work will be influenced firstly by comic books in which the characters come from; the extreme representations of scenarios from the work of David LaChapelle; and the darker themed scenarios often seem in the work of Annie Leibovitz.

Photographs will have varied settings for each photo shoot and some will require shooting people outside at night, as well as indoor scenarios. The work will be done using a medium format camera (most likely 5x4) to strengthen the quality of the images, and to give greater potential for the work to be used in other markets such as exhibitions or advertising.

Perfume Ad

2007-12-10T20:45:00.000Z

Along with a group of photographers, I created images to be used for a perfume advertisement.
Here's the first of these images, more to follow shortly...

Disney Fashion Shoot

2007-12-07T12:19:00.000Z

Latest fashion shoot based on Disney characters.
I took ideas of what the characters were about and applied these to the modern world.

Primo XS photoshoot #1

2007-07-01T18:54:00.000Z

First trial photoshoot for my mate, the artist Primo XS, an upcoming female rapper. Check out her music at www.myspace.com/primoxs
I've played around using font here, but could do with a graphic designer to create a logo.

Fashion shoot #1

2007-06-14T12:22:00.000Z

Photoshoot to be used in fashion exhibition for Chris Preston, Stafford.

Gay Pride, Birmingham 2007

2007-05-31T10:47:00.001Z

It may have been awful weather, but it sure didn't rain on anyone's parade!

Surveillance

2007-03-15T14:32:00.000Z

These set of images are based on the notion of 'big brother' and constant surveillance in public places which you may not be aware that you are being watched.

The Object

2006-12-10T13:08:00.000Z

In this series of still life photographs, I depicted goods people consume, but shown them either before or after consumation, creating a picture of an object that is different to the one the brain naturally thinks of, for example an egg cracked rather than whole or fried.