LO2 Practice Photoshoot

Practice Photoshoot

In terms of what was a success in the photoshoot I would say the analysis and understanding of the photographic elements and a better grasp on ideas about which elements I will be using in my identity shoot. Also some of the photographs, as out of focus because I kept testing the different settings, in the end the camera was as follows; an aperture of F5.6 and a shutter of 3200. These camera settings were completely wrong as all the photographs were out of focus. The challenge was changing the camera settings and getting it to the right setting, need more time to plan the different settings out and more time to test the different settings. The planning didn't especially pay off because the camera settings were not decided before hand and therefore it was more difficult to decide upon the specifics. In terms of what I will change for the final identity shoot, I will plan the aperture/shutter speed/camera settings before hand and test them out, and I will also have planned out exactly where and what I want in my shoot, through recces and sketches. Another challenge of the photoshoot was the weather, it was heavily raining and very windy making it very hard to take the photographs and protect the camera as we had a short time in which we took the photograph and put the camera back in its case to protect it. In terms of what I would repeat in my final identity photoshoot would be the spontaneity of the photoshoot, even though in the final photoshoot everything will be planned out, in terms of the photographs appearance, I want them to seem really spontaneous and random as well as connoting the message. I feel that even though this practice photoshoot wasn't as successful as id hoped, this is a learning experience and I will learn from the mistakes I made this photoshoot.

As you can tell some of the photographs were in focus while some weren't in focus at all, this is because I forgot to turn Auto Focus on and therefore it was more difficult to achieve a focused image. The two above are good photographs, they capture the beauty of the sky and the contrast of the buildings.  The amount of light captured creates  nice washed out effect in the sky. The one on the right is a focused shot of some graffiti, the one on the right is my model stood in front of some more graffiti. This has given me some ideas and has influenced me to take some photographs of graffiti and incorporate that into my photography somehow, possibly through the city/buildings aspect of it rather than the landscape part of it, this will show even more contrast in the edited photographs.