m.A.A.d city - PhotoShoot

For the song m.A.A.d city I was planning to create pictures to go with the quotes...

'Cocaine laced in marijuana'

and 'Cocaine, weed nigga's been mixing this shit since the 80's'

As well as these quotes I also ended up adding in some more. The extra ones that I added are..

'Imagine if your first blunt had you foaming at the mouth'

'and they wonder why I rarely smoke now'

and also 'Where your grandma stay, huh, mu nigga? - This m.A.A.d city I run, my nigga'

I decided to add in these extra quotes to get the number of pictures up in by book. I felt that if I didn't do this I would find it hard to meet my target of 35 images.
Also because all these photos are from the same song they all tie in together. I won't have to do another photo-shoot to add these extra quotes they will just tie in nicely. 

I took pictures for this photoshoot on my digital camera, my camera phone and also on a disposable camera. Here are the contact sheets of all the images that I took for this shoot..

Camera Contact Sheet. 

With these pictures I feel that I experimented with the different layouts well. I tried to create the same scene multiple times in different ways so that from a distance they may look the same but when you look closely you can see that they are all different. 

Out of all the pictures that I took on my camera these are my favourite... 

I really like this picture I like the detail thats on the build and how you can clearly see the 'cocaine' that has been placed on top. I think that this picture would work really well with the quote..
'Cocaine laced in marijuana'

Although this image doesn't seem as relevant to the quotes as the rest of the pictures I really want to try and use it in my book. I don't know why but I like all the different colours and textures within this picture and also it's rarity. It's not very often you see a picture of an ashtray like this. Also I think it fits in with the grungy style theme too. 

I also really like this picture as you can see everything thats going on within it. You can see the 'laced joint' in the background, as well as some lined up cocaine and the credit cared used to do this. You can  also see the bag of weed and the grinder used for this, as well as an alcoholic drink and half a knuckle duster.
I think that all these items placed together set off a theme and a mood.

iPhone Contact Sheet. 

Out of the few pictures that I took on my camera phone these are my favourite... 

I really like how striking and eye catching this picture is. Straight away your eyes are drawn to looking straight at this bold image. The darkness of the knuckleduster against the light background really stands out. I also like the reflection of it in the mirror. 

I like the reflection in this image and how is has made 4 lines to appear as 8. I also really like how only the lines and the drink are in focus and all the background is blurred. 

I really like this picture and the detail thats on the grinder. I think that this picture would look really good cropped into a square so that there is non of the unfocused background in the background. 

Unfortunately I do not yet have any of the contact sheets from the pictures taken on my disposable camera. I will upload them as soon as I have them. 

To create these pictures I had to use multiple props these included; 

- A mirror ( as a table base)
- A cradler
- A grinder
- A knuckleduster
- A credit card
- A ashtray
- A glass of whiskey
- Kingsize rizla
- Salt ( the fake cocaine )
- Oregano ( the fake cannabis )
- And also a baggy

I do wish that I had also added a rolled up note of money either a £10 or £20 note. This would then look like it was being used to sniff the lines of 'cocaine' but this is something I know now for if I am ever likely to do a shoot like this again in the future.