I think the first shoot outside didn't go well, I went outside to take some nice shots many times, trying to catch sunset, because I thought it would look very beautiful on the images. Unfortunately I haven't thought of taking an extra extended flash with me.... Therefore I have ended up with very dark and blurred images I don't necessarily like, but I decided to share it anyway, because I know what I have done wrong and I'm just learning from the experience and I know next time I'm going to use extra necessarily equipment. Within few days the weather was nice but was very cold outside and sometimes my camera got cold and the battery died very quickly, which made the shoot even more difficult. Therefore I tried very hard to do any shots out there, and make the images work at the end.
So here are some of the images from the outside.
As you can see, it's not what I have planned and mentioned in a previous post I did about how I would like the shoots to look like. I think its due to the location.
My subject were talking about what place reminds her of nice happy childhood times, and she pointed the River Dee for the place where she spent most of her childhood with her parents and friends. So I thought of taken the images over there and use props of her fitness equipment. She is doing personal training as well, so she can use the equipment for sure. Some of the shots went well, but as you can tell from the images that, I was struggling with the light, even though I had very good quality camera. Unfortunately I seems like I couldn't use it properly.
I choose only comple images that I have edited in lightroom and photoshop as well (for a better effort).
The next photoshoot I did was in a studio but with much more props than I have used on the previous photoshoot. I think this time the shoot went much better than the other one, which I tried to make work many time while not having extended flash.
This time I wanted presented my subject in a proper way she imagine. We worked together how the props is going to work, and if they going to work. Sometimes the light was awful because of my own fault, but sometimes the equipment just didn't work the way it should. So it took us many hours in the studio to figure out what's going to be the best pose, face, clothing and props etc.
All images you can find in my google photo album by clicking at the link below.
All Photos from Studio sessions
And all edited images you can find in here: Portriat Brief- Ready Edited Images
And all edited images you can find in here: Portriat Brief- Ready Edited Images
This google album shows all of the images I have taken in two days time. Of course just like in a every shoot, some images went very well and I didn't need to edit them too much but some of them are just right but I still decided to show them off just like the ones from previous shoots, because of the same reasons. I would like to show what went wrong what went well, what worked and what I should leave behind. As on the previous subject we used many fitness props but this time there are a lot of them, and we had plenty to choose from, and think what we can show on the images and telling the "story" about the images.
I have taken some examples of the images and poses I can use from the books I have been given my unviersity. ( Photography: A cultural History by Mary Warner Marien & Art and Photography by David Company. Those books gave me some sort of inspiration and samples of what my camera could do this time. I didn't read them books before I have done my very first shoot session ( which I should do ). And that's why I think it is very important ant to read books , and look at the even very old images from back in 19th century time because they given you a very good flavour of thinking. I got more ideas in my head after I have red them books.
The equipment that were used in them photoshoots were: small and big weights, jumping rope, boxing gloves, Yoga matt, sweating tower.
The Clothes that were used: 2 different sets of sports clothes. Light colours were essential as the background was black so I wanted something to stand out from the background, and something that could potentially work.
Unfortunately I did some samples of the images I wanted to print out, but decided to print it out later, but the day before the deadline, my pen drive got broken (somehow) and I have lost all my edited images I have chosen to be my final prints.
Therefore the only way I can show my final "Prints" is on here, and also there are not exact images I have edited before, purely because I just didn't have a time to do them all in a one go.
But I'd like to present you a collage of images I have tried to edit and present at the end.
As you can see all the images I have edited. The program I used this time was mainly lightroom but of course I had a go in a Photoshop CS5 as well ( mainly because I don't own a lighroom at home)
All images were taken by camera Canon EOS 7D- which is brilliant for any type of shoots.
At the end my pre-evaluation is that, the over all feedback from myself is: It went ok, but I should be more proffessional if comes about lighting and using the extended camera equipments. I would change the first session of the shoots outside, because they aren't too great but they have gave me even more inspiration than I had in my mind while I was taken them. I think next time I will try my best to do better shots so I won't have to spend so much time editing the images I would like to present as my final ones.
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