With our Idea sorted Myself and Nina have decided to start shooting immediately so we have time to do as many reshoots as we possibly can. For the shoot we planned to have it as clean as possible with a combonation of very wide shots to play with negative space. as well as my favourite kind of shot, close ups. We didn't plan an actual shot list as this is just a preliminary shoot that we can play about in and get a feel for the kind of images we want. For lighting we used two beauty dishes and a soft box to create a light and bright smooth look to the skin. This is to give the images a more natural feeling in order to make it easier to potentially edit and so it equalises myself and nina in the space. We wanted to have a lot of skin showing in the images but as we have both are newly friends, its was kind of awkward to be topless in front of each other so we just wore white and nude colours.
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| Image from preliminary test shoot - Joe Palmer/Nina Sayuri |
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| Image from preliminary test shoot - Joe Palmer/Nina Sayuri |
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| Image from preliminary test shoot - Joe Palmer/Nina Sayuri |
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| Image from preliminary test shoot - Joe Palmer/Nina Sayuri |
The images shown above are four examples of the different kinds oc composition in which we tried in the test shoot of this project. As this shoot was mainly just a huge test, whether its with composition, props, outfits, work style, or any aspect of the shoot. I think it came out well. I think for the concept we have we will definitely need some tweaking in regards to prop use in order to properly convey our message to the audience. We chose to use flowers in this shoot as a way to represent heritage as the original plan was to have an english rose or poppy, in contrast to a mexican sunflower. This was the plan but on shoot day unfortunately lidl only has roses so we just got them, luckily this is just the first shoot and in future we can improve out our flower planning. In reflections I think the closer up shots, for example; the 3rd image, the most eye catching to me but that is mainly because I just generally prefer close ups to wider shots. In close up theres more detail and its a more specific look at an object or subject. In some cases Full body shots like the 2nd image I posted are necessary like in a fashion photography setting they're 'needed'. I find the 1st and 4th images could be a composition that we can build upon as they are similar to Sam Kweskins work (referenced in the last thing posted "Maps & Networks: Research") with the use of negative space and interesting angles (4th image) I do feel the shoot failed in the concept to audience portrayal as I don't feel like I get our message from any of the images, they mainly have a sort of natural in the unnatural feeling, with the minimal plant life vs the stark white background. Even with this I did some rough experiments to practice potential ways in which myself and Nina could edit future images.
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| Rough Edit - Shoot 1 |
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| Rough Edit - Shoot 1 |
As you can see, they're very rough, but it was just an idea around adding the flower symbol in through digital methods and see how that affects the image. I feel they definitely have different connotations to the previously above shown flower photographs. I find this becuase the direct eye contact draws the viewer in and sort of acts as an indicator of speech, The the flower motifs on the faces are obscuring the facial features along with the eyes, and in turns talking. this reflects the "conversation on culture" theme. The edits DEFINITELY need more work, but are just a start. I'd like to plan the next shoot in a way that leaves it open for editing.
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