For my series project, I wanted to take pictures that were similar to Steven McCurry's photo of the Afghan Girl. In my pictures, I used high contrast and tried to make the colors pop. I used the same posture as the Afghan Girl and translated that picture with many other models and backgrounds. I made the model point therir shoulders facing the side/diagonal of me and made them turn their face to face me. My goal was to get their eyes focused into the lense. The first two pictures were testing the posture and the color balance, but then I noticed that the background was distracting the model. In the next photos, I put the model in front of backgrounds with a lot of texture, so the viewer can focus more on the model than the background.
