Hope Louise Sacree Photography

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Photo Shoot Four - Risk Assessment

Equipment List 

Camera Canon 450D

Standard Lens 

Ladder

Flash Head Canon 430EX-II

Props 

Scarf 

Fur Coat 

Location Planning 

Finally I have decided I don’t need to just create death scenes. So next I am going to d something more subtle, but I could still invent a scene and a character. Sticking with the interesting and “birds eye view” angles I am going to do a night scene outside. I have decided to do it at night time because I liked the uses of flash in my other shots and want to revisit it.  This photo shot is going to have a more real life feel to it, unlike the others as I wanted them to look staged. 

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Photo Shoot Three - Risk Assessment 

Equipment List 

Camera Canon 450D

Standard Lens

Ladder

Props 

Shoes 

Vintage Dress

Picnic Rug 

Picnic Basket 

Champagne 

Champagne Glass

Location Planning    I am going back to my first shoot a little bit because I have decided that my sets of pictures are creating characters. I am going to add more props to the images so there is a story in the picture, which the viewer will try to work out. However, instead of just placing random objects in the frame I am going to create a scene, again sticking with the vintage theme. This time it is going to be outside in the day time so I won't need flash. My aim is to make a vintage picnic, using fancy, old cutlery and dressing my model in a vintage style dress. 

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Photo Shoot Two - Risk Assessment 

Equipment List

Camera Canon 450D

Standard Lens

Ring Flash

Ladder

On Camera Flash

Props  

Fake Blood 

Long Dress

Bath (with water) 

Location Planning 

For my second shoot I am keeping with the vintage theme but making it more simple. Taking out a lot of props because the pervious images looked to busy and you weren't sure where to look. However, I really enjoyed to 'birds eye view' angle so it is defiantly something I am going to stick with.  When looking at early crime photos the ladder that the detective was standing on was often in the framing. So I am going to experiment with this and see if it works for my images. 

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Photo Shoot One - Risk Assessment

Equipment List  

Camera Canon 450D

Standard Lens 

Ladder

Ring Flash 

On Camera Flash 

Props 

Fake Blood

Knife 

Wedding Dress

Cards 

High Heel Shoes 

Location Planning 

For my first shoot I am going to take it from "birds eye view" just like many of the photographers I am looking at have done, for example Weegee. It is going to be taken in a my bedroom because the dark brown, wooden flooring will be perfect for the old fashion, murder mystery feeling I am going for. I want it to look staged over, over the top and theatrical, like an original Agatha Christie movie. 

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Gallery Layout, Colour Insight 

One  I like this layout because the scale is so big that I image when the views walk in they wont be able to look away. I chose to do my most simple image in this way so there wasn't to much to look at because it could become to overwhelming.

Two  I thought next I could present them next to each other, showing a set of different deaths and having the same angle in the photo which brings them all together nicely.

Three Lastly I thought about presenting one models story. I thought it was a god idea to used this shoot because she is alive so there are many different places and angles I could use to show and uncover parts of her story.

I place these against a brick wall instead of a gallery wall like the others. I did this because it matches the colours and the scene in this photo shoot.I imagine them in a big empty warehouse with just these hanging around the walls, one single spotlight above each one, representing the street lights the shine one her. This then brings the viewer into the story and makes them feel apart of it. 

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Large Format

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Large Format

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Final Echo Two 

Lighting Quality - Hard Number Of Lights - 3 Lighting Type - Flash Directionally - 2 strip lights at the side of the subject, beauty dish above subject, over the camera Exposure - F8

Camera  Type - Canon 5D Lens - Standard  Point Of View - Low Aperture (DOF) - F11 Shutter Movement - 1/125 Exposure - Spot On

Mise en Scene  Size Of Subject - Big  Position Of Subject - Central  Pose Orientation Of Object To Camera - Direct To Camera  Horizon - Straight  Background - Dark Grey  Focus - Subject

For my final echo I used two strip lights with egg crates one either side of my model. These where used to get the glow around the side of the body, especially on the shoulders. I also put a beauty dish high right of the camera to create the shadow on the left hand side of his face and under the chin. I placed a reflector behind him on the right and side so there was a brighter glow on the right hand side of his face. At first I tried with a black back drop but that was far to dark so I changed to a grey.  Next I took the photography into lightroom, making it back and white and cropping it to the right framing. Playing around with the contrast, I masked different parts of the image so I could match the original as much as possible. I also added some "grain" and moved up the "clarity" slightly. 

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Canon EOS Lenses 

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Lenses  Wide Angle -

Wide angle capture more of the background as it is a lower focal length

The most common focal lengths are 24mm and 28mm

Wide angle lenses can focus on the foreground and background simultaneously

Wide angle lenses are most often used for Landscape photography 

Macro -

Marco lenses are used to photograph objects close up

They have a short focal length, allowing the photographer to fill the frame with the subject 

They help you get right up close to the subject without distorting it

Telephoto -

Telephoto is the opposite of wide angle 

Most commonly known for making object in the distance appear closer

70mm and 300mm are typical focal length 

It is most commonly known for sports and wildlife photography

Standard -

A standard lens show most accurately what the human eye can see

Their angle of view is around 50-55 degrees diagonally 

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Large Format - Toy Town 

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Exercise 5A - Different Focal Lengths 

Photo 1: 20mm Photo 2: 24mm Photo 3: 35mm Photo 4: 70mm Photo 5: 105mm Photo 6: 200mm

As you can see from this exercise, the DOF becomes dramatically shallower and the focal length increases, causing the background behind the subject to become blurred. Showing that the perspective of the foreground can be altered but adjusting the focal length on the lens. 

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Exercise 5B - Moving Position 

During this task the photographer moved back whilst changed the focal length from 20mm, 24mm, 50mm, 100mm and 200mm, so the main subject stays the same size in the viewfinder each time.  This particular technique is useful when playing around with the perspective of what is surrounding the main objects. By looking at these images you can clearly see that the further the photographer moves away the larger the scale of I, Hope (left) gets. 

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Medium Format - Exercise One  

The first image is a standard photo, no movement to the camera, For the second image we chose to use a front swing to give a vertical band of focus down the image. 

These images were both technically successful with the correct exposure, focus and the entire frame is within the image circle. 

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Martin Schoeller

Martin Schoeller, born March 12, 1968 is a New York-based photographer. He has a style of photography where is takes really close up “hyper-detailed” award winning portraits. He has done many well know and respects people, actors and actresses, but also continues to do unknown people as well. His shots normally all contain similar lighting, backdrop and tone throughout the image.  

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Robert Mapplethorpe Vogue - "He loved to take pictures of real identities, including the fetish and the sexual side of them. His life was all about glamour and beauty but never in a corny way." 

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Yousuf Karsh 

Karsh photographed some of the most influential people of the 20th century such as Nelson Mandela, Einstein and even The Queen. In the bottom two images there is a great story to go along with them:

“Churchill was in a bad mood to begin with because he didn’t realise the portrait had been scheduled. He told Karsh, rather grumpily, that he had two minutes. Karsh got Churchill in the chair and asked him to take the cigar out of his mouth, but Churchill refused. On the ruse of taking a light meter reading, he walked up to Churchill and said, “Forgive me, Sir,” yanked out the cigar, and snapped the shutter just as Churchill grimaced. His nerve, rather than angering Churchill further, actually impressed him. The story goes that Churchill smiled at him and said, ‘You may take another one.’’

In most of his photographs he uses studio lighting because he was able to change the mood of a photograph by the drop of a hat. One of his trick was to light the hands separately so the lighting didn't fade away from the image meaning every detail was there adding more depth to his pictures.