Photo Shoot Ideas Prep

As part of the fragrance project I am currently enduring I am putting together a brand and as part of this, next week my group and I will be conducting a photo shoot. As preparation for the shoot, todays lecture and seminar were focused around photo shoots and the pre, during and post production of them.

We looked at how images use..
Conceptual based ideas - art, film, performance.
Prop based ideas - 'flat lay', 'joke on scale', 'location stand-in', 'prop as placement'.
Humour based ideas - accessories, casting, make up.
Referencing based ideas - historical reference, cultural reference.
Humour based ideas - accessories, make up, casting.
Location based ideas - composition, montage, fake it.
Casting based ideas - real/anti beauty, anti-type, anti-gender, anti-solo.
Tech based ideas - photo technique, paper quality, print quality.
Lighting base ideas - projection, acetates, motion blur, white out, overlay, not light but dark.

I have chosen to focus on 6 of the above categories (Prop, Colour, Humour, Casting, Lighting, Colour and Styling) and by flicking through some magazines I have found some examples which demonstrate these approaches and have displayed some of my favourites below.

Prop based ideas