Second Shoot

I kept the same idea for my second shoot but I was a lot more aware of how I wanted my photos to turn out. I was going to sake her to wear some bright lipstick but we were quite rushed and short on time to get it done, this was also bad for my trying to get the lighting how I wanted it. This second shoot was a lot more successful I made the facial expressions I want more known to the model    Sarah-Alyce and she looked a lot happier and did all the poses I wanted. In this second shoot the background was a lot lighter, this was unintended but it looked a lot better than in my first shoot.


I used the light meter to get the correct settings for my photo shoots so the photographs after this weren't as dark.

These are a few of my photographs from the second shoot, I kept the same outfit because I think it fit my chosen theme really well. I was a lot happier with the models facial expressions because it was a big part of how I want the photographs to look.

Although she was stood inform of the same background in the same clothes her facial expression changed the whole thing. She was serious in a few photographs but that was okay because I could just leave them out and not use them. The photos from the first and second are similar in a lot of ways but the differences that I made change them a lot. I think my theme was well known but even if it wasn'tYou

First Shoot

My plan was to get an 80's / 90's look, I wanted to mix them together to make it really original. The model we had was Sarah-Alyce and she is really photogenic, she's very versatile so she could look really good in any style which gave me confidence that mu idea would work out and look very different to other peoples photographs as we were all going to be using the same model.








To get the look I wanted I researched both 80's and 90's studio photography to get a good look at the styles. I really like the poses from more of the 80's style they were really happy and colourful. Although I preferred the clothing from the 90's photographs so I wanted to get those aspects mixed into one.

                     

These were a few of my images from the first shoot I personally really like these images but there are a lot of faults with them that I need to consider for my second shoot. The background in these images are a lot darker then I wanted it to look, I ended up with a vignette affect at the corners where it had darkened while I was taking images. I also asked the model at the beginning to look really happy and smile a lot but in most of the images she was pouting and looking very serious, I understand this is jet what she's used to and in the next shoot I will just make sure she is smiling more and fully doing what I asked.


From this first shoot this is my favorite image of them all, she looks kind of cocky and is doing one of the poses I really wanted her to do. Although you can see the soft boxes reflecting in the glasses she's wearing .

First Day At UCLAN

We all met up at the reception of the media factory building at UCLAN, we were then taken to the studio there. The studio is a lot more professional than the one we have at college and it was really good to know that we could use a lot more professional equipment for this assignment. Nicola, was there to over veiw everything and explain how to properly use all the equipment. The lights in the studio are all attached to the ceiling on moving rails, and you could drag them down and they were weighted so they stayed in place. After we were shown we were split into groups to use the light meters, they are a lot more precise. You are able to set it so it knows there's going to be a flash so you can get more precise readings then a light meter on a camera. The model has to hold it in front of their face with the shutter speed and ISO set, then when you take a picture it tells you the best apiture to use to get a really good exposure.

We then went to look around the dark rooms and we were shown how to use all the chemicals and how to process the film to make an actual picture. Outside of the dark rooms was where we were going to hold out final exhibition, we were shown how to use the spotlights and how to hang the frames on the wall using the hooks and hangings. This day showed me that for the future shoots we were going to be able to use a lot of professional equipment.