Shoot 2 - Straight Images

Shoot 2 - Contact Sheet

Shoot 2 - Work Record

For this shoot I plan to photograph my friends dancing in the studio. I think this will make a good subject to photograph. As they are creating a lot off detailed movements I feel that these will make interesting photographs and because of the techniques that I learnt in the previous shot I feel that I can make this a success. I hope that I am able to recreate the photos from the last shoot but also learn from my mistakes. 

When taking these photographs I felt very rushed as I only had about half an hour with the girls and I also had to set the studio up as it was occupied before I was using it. I feel that the shoot went well and I was able to capture some good images and therefore I feel that the shoot was worth will completing.

Below is a picture that I like 



I like this picture because I like how  I managed to capture all of the important movements within the routine. It took me a while to get the right to camera  on to the right
 setting however once I had done this it worked really well and really showed off all the key movements in the routine that they had created. I also like this picture because I worked hard on the editing in order to really show off the dance and the clear movements from one move to the other. 

Below is a picture that didn't work so well. 

This is one of the picture that worked well however I had the light on to bright and the picture came out over exposed. It didn't work as well as some of the other images I had created due to the fact that light was on the wrong setting. I tried playing around with the photograph on photoshop however it didn't work well at all. I also feel that the flash's weren't in the right places and I feel like they didn't capture the right movements. 

Progress 

When I next do a shoot like this I will make sure I check the settings of the camera and the light before I get the models into the studio and make sure that everything is correct and ready when they arrive because nothing was ready when they arrived and I felt very underprepared. I would now like to take my topic in a different direction and in my next shoot plan to photograph the dilution of food dye in water

Shoot 1 - Straight Images

Shoot 1 - Contact Sheet

Shoot 1 - Work Record

For this shoot I will practise different techniques that could be useful throughout my project and therefore could influence the way in which I choose to take my project.  I have chosen to start out with simple movements so that I am able to work on the techniques and make sure that this is going to work before I launch into bigger more complex shoots. By the end of the shoot I hope to have created some good images that show off the techniques that I have learnt and I hope to know exactly what I am doing before going into my next shoot so that I can capture the right images. 

During the shoot I was able to capture some very clear images. I feel that it was a good idea to complete this shoot as I feel that if I hadn't done this shoot I would struggle when trying to do it in the next shoot. I feel that even though I was using this shoot as a test shoot it worked well as I was able to create some very good images considering that I was learning about the camera settings.

Below is one photo from the shoot that I like

I think this photograph really shows the passing of time well as you can see the movement of the girl as time goes past. I like that you can clearly see all of her movements within the photograph and you can clearly see that time is passing during the photograph. I really liked the use of slow sync in the photograph which involved me flashing the light throughout the long exposure shot of the photograph. 

Below is a picture from the shoot that I don't like

This photograph is over exposed because I was trying to photograph it using the natural light but after taking this photograph I realised I would need to use the studio lights in order  to make the whole photograph clearer and mean that you can see the people in the photographs. 

Progression 

I would like to do another shoot using these techniques. I would like to use these techniques on more interesting things like dancers and sports players to really help show the passing of time.  I would also like to create more of the gifs that I have created from this shoot and therefore means that I can portray the passing of time through moving pictures.