SHOOT 3 - DIET

This shoot shows some of the dietary needs of the model. The purpose of this shoot was to emphasise how plain and boring some meals are for body builders. I used a naturally lit setting with white flooring (white plates and bowls if necessary) to highlight how simple to meals are. I feel the white background and natural lighting complements the colours that are focused on in the images - if there is much colour/saturation. For example, I edited the image of the can of tuna by decreasing the saturation to make it appear to look more dull and colourless as, to the bodybuilder; it's a dry, boring meal. However with the eggs and banana's I have increased the saturation, as this is the food the bodybuilder looks forward to and enjoys emphasising the colour and giving the impressions it's more noticeable and exciting.

I feel this shoot could have gone better. I feel I could have done something more such as record the model eating these foods or record him cooking the foods. Because I am very interested on the idea of recording the diet (a very important component of the lifestyle) I feel I will do another photoshoot including his diet.

Some of these photos however are very effective. By reducing saturation I feel this gives boring, tasteless, colourless idea of what the food might be like.

For example: Josh describes his meal of tuna and rice to be "boring, dry, time consuming to eat and bland. Not something I look forward to." Taking Josh's words into consideration, I used natural lighting and a plain white background when shooting these images. When editing these images I edited the offset to give a more dull and colourless image with little tone or contrast.

However for a meal such as eggs on a morning for a full heavy fat meal, I increased saturation as it's one Josh looks forward to too. Because it's a meal he looks forward to more I gave it more colour and exaggerated it.