This shoot was inspired by Chantal Gallant's keyhole photography where she has a keyhole outline around her images to make it seem like the viewer is looking through at the image through a keyhole. I liked the idea of looking through a keyhole so I decided to look at the meanings behind a keyhole in general, from my research, I found that a keyhole usually represents new beginnings and security but what I was inspired by was the quote 'you have the key to my heart'. From this I did a shoot based on things that I like and what represents myself as a person such as, my family/friends, animals, things I like collecting and jewellery that I constantly have on me.
In order to get the 'looking through the keyhole' effect, I physically cut out a keyhole shape on black paper so that I can use it to place in front of the camera. It would've been easier to edit a keyhole shape onto the image without the hassle of trying to keep the paper straight and framing the subjects within the keyhole at the same time. Also, since the cut out was just paper, the light would shine through which would make the cutout grey instead of black how I wanted it therefore, I had to edit it in Photoshop in order to make it black. Despite this, I think I achieved some good shots with the paper cut out which I have shown below, but it would've been easier to initially edit a keyhole shape on top of my images so if I were to re-shoot I would do that instead.
In order to get the 'looking through the keyhole' effect, I physically cut out a keyhole shape on black paper so that I can use it to place in front of the camera. It would've been easier to edit a keyhole shape onto the image without the hassle of trying to keep the paper straight and framing the subjects within the keyhole at the same time. Also, since the cut out was just paper, the light would shine through which would make the cutout grey instead of black how I wanted it therefore, I had to edit it in Photoshop in order to make it black. Despite this, I think I achieved some good shots with the paper cut out which I have shown below, but it would've been easier to initially edit a keyhole shape on top of my images so if I were to re-shoot I would do that instead.
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The photo above shows a small part of all the images that I took for my keyhole shoot. I tend to take at least 5 images per subject, this is to ensure that I have enough material to work with and I wanted to try out different angles and framing. Additionally, in order to get the 'looking through the keyhole' effect I held the cut out keyhole in front of the camera, I had a lot of bad shots due to this fact since I had to hold up the camera in one hand and the keyhole in the other whilst trying frame the shot perfectly which was quite difficult.