Location Fashion Shoot

 

These are my four favourite from my location fashion shoot. When researching fashion shoots I noticed that a lot of the time photos are slightly over exposed and depending on the situation I think it can work , so using lightroom I tweaked the exposure and contrast to create light photographs. I chose to have a plain brick background for the shoot because I think that draws you more towards the clothing rather than being distracted from the surroundings. 

I used my Canon 600D with natural lighting because I thought that would go best with the style of clothing and I think it suits the overall feel of the image. Learning how to do professional looking portrait shots in the studio has helped me consider the lighting conditions even more when I'm shooting outside too.

Head Shots 2

 These photographs are from a studio shoot I did with Chloe. They are a follow up from the headshots I did in my previous post. I had difficulty uploading the last photograph's of Ryan because they were corrupted during the upload so I decided to do another shoot for the experience. I used a similar set up as the last head shots I did. I used a plain white backdrop with two lights however sometimes I turned one light off and only used one but kept them both on either side of model.

I always look online , especially on pinterest, for inspiration before I do shoots. I have several boards on pinterest dedicated to photography that I often look at and add to to help me know what I want out of the shoot. I used pinterest to help inspire these photographs by searching headshots and studio photography.

I edited these images on Ribbet.com and also on Lightroom too. I usually use lightroom for editing the exposure and contrasts and then I used Ribbet to add different effects and filters. I'm happy with the final outcome from this shoot. I really like the side profile images that I took.

Edited Head Shots

 These are my edited photograph's from my shoot with Ryan in the studio. I edited these images on Ribbet.com.

Headshots

We were given a brief to produce 10 headshot images that need to be taken in a studio, however we couldn't photograph anyone in our class so I photographed Ryan. I have previously taken headshots before with a home studio set up but I knew it would be fun to experiment in the college studio using the lights and backdrops.

I spent time researching different style of headhots on pinterest , here is the board that I created for it : http://uk.pinterest.com/ellaruthmcquoid/headshot-photography/

Here are my UNEDITED photograph's from my head shot session.

Whilst I was uploading my images to the computer they corrupted and these were the only images that uploaded. I was really disappointed because I was so pleased with how my images turned out from the shoot however I am going to re shoot but using Chloe as a model instead. I'm going to edit these images and then upload them again in another blog post.

Beauty in the equipment

Today in college we were photographing photography equipment. I focused taking images of traditional cameras and film, I also asked several people in class if I could photograph them holding the equipment too. I'm really pleased with how some of my images turned out!

I was playing around with different camera angles and photographing in different ways from other people in the class, for example the last image above was taken looking at the mirror in the Nikon film camera so you can see my lens through the reflection , I used manual focus to focus on my lens rather than the Nikon camera and film, i like the effect it gives, it blurs out a lot of the photo but you can also see what it is and what brand camera too.

The middle photo I took whilst Sharrah was taking an image without her knowing until after I showed her the photograph. 

Some of my favourites from todays session:

 This is one of my favourite photographs from this session, I edited a colour version and a black and white version.

From these past few sessions I have discovered my love for product photography!