The document provides information about three fashion photographers - Mert & Marcus, Nick Knight, and Steven Meisel. It summarizes some of their key stylistic traits and influences on the author's own photography ideas. Mert & Marcus use bold colors against neutral backgrounds and unusual poses like models lying down. Nick Knight creates blurred, tie-dye effects and uses dramatic lighting to highlight clothing silhouettes. Steven Meisel incorporates busy compositions with many details, contrasts in lighting and color, and on-location shoots to add drama. The author finds these photographers inspiring and plans to incorporate some of their techniques, like selective use of bright colors and interesting poses.

1. Photography IdeasFashion
Emily Monsey

2. Mind Map

3. Mert & Marcus
Bold, bright colour against neutral background
Unusual set up
All black & white- only selected some in colour
Monochrome- use of shadow
Models lying down- different from usual
Angle – looking up at the model

4. Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott are famous fashion designers and have done shoots
for a wide range of magazines and brands such as; Numéro, Pop Magazine, W
Magazine, Vogue Italia and Vogue U.S.A. They have worked with top brands like
Missoni, Roberto Cavalli, Louis Vuitton, Miu Miu, Kenzo and Giorgio Armani. This
work helped them to create an amazing portfolio of work and they are now
established in the fashion and photography industry. Their work varies as they
include many different styles of work in their images, however they do seem to
always include bright and bold colours as this has been shown in the work I have
personally looked at. In the images that colour has not been used they have enabled
light and shadows to add drama to the photograph, this is what makes all of their
photographs really interesting and is the reason they have grown in this industry. I
really like this photographer and it also fit in with a lot of the ideas I had in mind
for my own shoot, they have used a monochrome effect on the images and then
added colour to certain parts which I had already planned to do as I feel it adds
difference and makes the colour pop against the harsh and dull backdrop. They
have also included a variety of different angles as they have used a head on
approach and also done one of the camera looking up to the model which I had in
mind as I think It makes it look much more interesting. Looking at these
photographs has helped me as I really liked the idea of the different poses the
models were making and am thinking of using some for my work.

5. Nick Knight
Really unique and different – not many people would chose to do this
Blurred out background & use of
colour- gives tie dye effect
Completely highlights the dress- using the dress’ shape
Lots of colour- really different
and interesting
Only put light on the dress
showing silhouette of model

6. Nick Knight is a well known fashion photographer and was first known for his
photographs in his book ‘skinheads’, this helped develop his career and skills and
since then he has worked with a number of designers. Some of which include;
Christian Dior, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander, Levi Strauss, Lancôme and Alexander
McQueen. He then launched his own website in 2000 and has succeeded in his
career and is now among the best fashion photographers in the industry. I
particularly liked Knight’s photographs as they were so unique and different from
anything I have seen before. The ideas for the different shoots are very creative and
involve lots of studio work, bright lighting and dramatic and sometimes risky ideas
that make the images so interesting to look at and highlight the clothes at the same
time. It is hard to find any similarities within the images as they are all so unique
and have their own story to tell, one similarity is that they all make a bold
statement and stand out from many other fashion photography work. For example
there is one that has been shot with a model dressed in snake-skin clothes and
snake-skin shoes, she has then been covered with snakes making the image very
abstract as she blends in and can be hard to see. This has helped me as all of the
images are so complicated and interesting to look at, this has made me want to
include a fairly busy looking image with quite a lot to look at.

7. Steven Meisel
Dull lighting- highlights the dress &
head piece
Really abstract as the clothes
blend with the floor
Only focused on the colour red, makes it bold & stands out
Looks like it’s observationalactually posed/staged

8. Steven Meisel is a famous fashion photographer and started off working with ‘W’
and ‘Vogue’ but his ‘claim to fame’ was when he pictured Madonna for her book
titled ‘sex’ in 1992. Meisel is also known for the numerous models and fashion
personalities that he discovered, these include; Naomi Campbell, Coco Rocha,
Lara Stone, Kristy Turlington, Raquel Zimmerman and Linda Evangelista. He
now photographs all of the Italian Vogue covers in which he has made a close
friendship with the editor-in-chief. I really likes his images as I found them so
intriguing, detailed and extremely interesting to look at as he makes sure that all
of the photos appear to look busy as he has a lot going on that you can see. He has
done some more stripped back shoots at times and these are still not too passive
looking as the outfits are all very dramatic and take the focus of the image. I also
noticed a lot of contrast within the images as he has done some in black and
white, some are very dull colours and others a packed with bright colours and
patterns. Another thing that is very noticeable from looking at the images is that
the shoots are commonly shot in actual places instead of using a studio which
adds to the drama of the image and also helps to tell a story as each of his images
have lot going on in them. I am definitely going to use this as inspiration and as a
guide to my photographs as I really want mine to be interesting and have some of
the bright colours Meisel uses.