Digital SLR camera details

This is the camera i am using for all of my shoots within school and on location. It i small and compact, great to use for this unit.

post production development

Here is my post production of some of  my final 8 images, i changed many different things to have the outcome which i did.

Evaluation

My intention with these photographs was to recreate with my interpretations a similar look and feel to my photos like the original films still images. I wanted to achieve a high professional style of photographs alike the film and in some parts of my studio lighting shoot i did feel like i may have achieved this however on my location shoot i wasn't as professionally equipped. Now this process of adjusting them in Adobe Lightroom is over i think that now my location shoot came out a lot better. Comparing these to magazine images there are very, very different.

  

Fashion photography there is normally  either a plain background or a very busy one. In both of these photos, the model is the main focus and they are both black and white. My photograph has a busy background with leaves and branches, my models arm is in the back ground which looks odd and makes the photo less professional. In fashion photography many professionals would use a medium format camera which gives a larger digital file size and much finer detail. I was using a 35mm equivalent Digital SLR camera which produces a smaller digital file size unlike what a professional photographer would use. Also they would shoot with RAW files whereas i used JPEG straight away allowing less quality in the photo and they would have someone else do their hair and make up whereas i did this all alone. I did however use professional lighting and a back drop in my studio shoot.  I didn't use lights on my location shoot as i thought natural lighting would suit the theme better, professionals would use lighting outdoors too. I worked from a brief  just like a professional working for a client. I also produced thumbnails and contact sheets just as a professional might do for the client to see before finally selecting the images to be used. Finally i worked in Lightroom to retouch the images just as any professional fashion image would be.

Location shoot- Marie Antoinette (4 of my final 8)

For my location shoot i tested out more types of colours such as black and white and making certain parts of images brighter such as the flowers, being moire pink in the first photograph so they stood out more, i also gave the whole of the image a more rosy glow to fit the aura of the time and her persona in parts of the film. In the second photo i brightened up the dress to make the model stand out among the flowers and leaves, her expression in this one is more serious to compliment and contrast with the first which is more up beat.  i added a heavy grain effect to make it look like one of the famous paintings outside of the films context. For the last one of my 8 i added a black and white effect to change up my range and so the facial features are particular focused on other than the details of the dress or background. These are the rest of the final 8 images.

Risk assessment for location shoot

Studio photos- Marie Antoinette (4 of my final 8 )

These are the photos that I took in my time in the studio with the professional lights and back drop. I changed a few aspects of each photograph in Lightroom to improve them with different effects such as brightening and darkening parts, cropping, highlighting, sharpening and also focusing of specific parts of each photo. I have chosen these four in my top 8 photographs from both the studio shoot and location shoot. In my eyes they represented the characters of Marie Antoinette in the film that i based my shoots on. Most of these photos have had colour correction applied so they look more stylised and older alike the paintings or still images within the film. These are 4 of my final 8

Contact sheet of location shoot-