Evaluation of final image

This is my final image, which I have done for my project to take a portrait of contemporary youth.

The concept I have made behind this image was to show that the young, ages between the age of 18 to 25 years old, struggling to get into employment after having gone to university or finishing higher education.

I have used a number of elements to get this image right, are these are:

Using the letters in the foreground as a wall to block the subject to getting out of this problem of student debt when they finishing higher education.

With the logo of Student Finance being noticeable and in focus gives the connection to student debt and with the letter being half way up the face shows the sense of being blocked in by them.

I got the subject to wear there uniform, to get them into the character of how they feel when working in their dead end job. At first I was not to bothered about having the uniform in shot as all I wanted to for them to be in character.

I am happy how the subject is starting into the camera with a sense of worry and stress with in there eyes. I feel this is a key element to this portrait as the eyes draw you into the image and give it the true feeling of angry and a sense of the subject being unsettled with there situation. I also think that

The background I have selected shows the problem with the world today with all the cuts and job lose out there. I feel this complete and into link all of elements of the image together. I feel the background is well balances and bold to give the image a 3D effect.

I used nature lighting for this image for a number of reasons, The first being that I felt that it would test my skills on lighting to get the image well lit and to get the right exposer with in the image with out using flash lighting and to get out of the studio. The second reason is, because of time I felt that I would be rush in a studio location and I felt because of the time I had left to do the shooting I would be better off shooting at a slower pace than I would be with in a studio.

Overall I feel that this evaluation truly explains my image of contemporary youth and the image itself show cases all the elements which I wanted it to show. These elements were debt, worry and job loss I got these elements from a survey which I did as part of my project research.