However Harry was kind enough to give me some images to mess around with.
I had contacted Merc previously regarding the project and they had sent me press releases and archived advertisements for the brand, Harry also contacted them (great minds think alike) and they were kind enough to loan us their clothing for the location shoot.
Baring both of these things in mind I decided to recreate an advert that they had sent me that was vintage from the 1960's. Not necessarily the same but I aimed to edit the image in a style that would make it plausible for it to have been taken at the time.
The image was taken in a dark area, using the flash as key light so I had to correct the lighting, exposure etc before attempting anything else, It began as :
and ended as
(photography credits: Harry Cunnew)
stray hairs = ARGGGH I pity any professional retoucher out there.
I love this shoot. I think a good job was done on styling, MU and it was well thought out in terms of our project.
We met today to try and arrange the actual creation of the book and our own personal deadline for this as a group is next Friday. EEK got so much to do.
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