Apr 14, 2019
Graded Unit
Tonight I arrived at a band practice to take the first set of shots for the graded unit. This is the first shot edited for the brief. So long as the rest of the shoots go as well I will have a lot to chose from.
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Graded Unit
Tonight I arrived at a band practice to take the first set of shots for the graded unit. This is the first shot edited for the brief. So long as the rest of the shoots go as well I will have a lot to chose from.
Group Portrait
While I was on location yesterday I managed to get the team I was working with to agree to create a group portrait. This was done at the end of the video shoot. I used the available light to set my shutter time and then used a speed-light with a small soft-box for a fill.
Something New
Below is an image for the Something New brief. The product is brand new to the market. The images will be used by the company for marketing. I have edited the photo initially on RAWand then in to Photoshop. In Photoshop I softened the edges of the sticker on the tine to make the line vanish. This was done with he clone tool.
Environmental Portrait pt2
As stated in my last blog I would be looking to extend this project in to a larger body of work. Today I went to the photographer, painter and artist Steven Allans home and created another set of images. Below is a small selection from today. I have used a ring light as a constant light source and the light coming in from the window. I set the ISO too 500 and shutter at 1/50th of a second at f4.
The final image is the one I will submit as my final for the folio 1 brief “Environmental Portrait”
Environmental Portrait
This is an environmental portrait of Adam. He is a music teacher at Glasgow Music studios. This is the 1st in a series of Environmental portraits I will be doing over the next two weeks. I have 2 more confirmed within the next few days. The environmental portrait was shot using a single speed light and small soft-box diffuser. The Aim of this type of portrait is to document an artist or person of interest in their working environment. It has been shot in landscape to allow space for the “gutter” in a magazine. The person is taking up 1/3rd to 1/2 of the image while providing space on another page for information to be placed. Where possible an item or group of items should take up the other portion of the image. These items should point to wha the person does. Normally when shooting I would shoot with a shutter of 1/125th to 250th of a sec but I these I opted for 1/80th of a sec to increase the ambient light. The room is quite dark. with only a small light stand to light the room. as can be seen in the image. Unfortunately this means there is not a lot of ambient light to work with.I could have shot at 200ISO or maybe 360 ISO to combat this. This would have meant less motion blur on the subjects face. However, it does catch Adams joyful nature perfectly. How relaxed demeanour is also easy to see. This shot was done during a change ver of classes he teaches. I might have the chance soon to go back and redo the shot implementing the changes I feel that are needed. This will mean being closer to the subject and letting the rest of the room take up the other portion of the image. I feel I have not quite got t he balance in the image fully correct.
MUA students Portraits
These photos where taken with a singe flash-gun and soft box. Amazing what can be done with just 1 flash and some natural light next to a window.
Brand Narrative
The above mood board shows the detailsI will be using in the team communication. The 4 areas shown above are meant to guid the team in the overall look and feel of the final image I will create on Friday 15/03/19. 10 am MUA and hair artist and model will arrive on set. Before They arrive I will have the lighting ready to go. The initial shots in the studio will be done on the Hasselblad with an 80mm lens. External shots will be done on a Canon DSLR. I will use 70-200mm lens. General inspiration is Erwin Blumenfeld. Styling Inspiration, shows simple head shots with the object in the first image exaggerated and shot as a separate image that has been photoshopped and placed on top. In the second image the item is being held by the model. If I do this I will also need to include another image over the top as per the first photo. Make-up, I am looking for a matte finish on the models skin as I do not want the make-up to be reflective of the lights. Lips and eye’s should have a bold finish. Bright red lipstick and around the eyes I want to have bold and dramatic/theatrical colours. Approach, I will start in the studio and get the shots I need in there. I will then move from studio to external. This will be weather dependant.
Something Old
The above image was created during a day in the studios. I went through various sets on the day of the shoot. Below is the various sets I experimented with. I started off with using a table with some material placed over it and the machine sat on top of this. I used a gobo light to create additional interest in the image. I had one large soft box to my right and above. I had to use a long shutter so I could introduce the ambient light in to the image. I progressed this on to using two large flags and a light betweens them so the light had to bounce off both before lighting up the object. I swapped the sides of the flags from white to black to see what affect that would have in the image. In the afternoon I changed the set over to just the object on its own. Sitting on a white box With the back-ground being lite from both sides to give a clean white. I used a large soft box directly over the object and moved it to the front to introduce a bit more light. My next step was to use a reflector below the object to bounce light up from under it. In the final set up of the day I moved on to painting the object with light. I started off with a studio light on the front. It was gate so I was only putting light directly on the front. I used both the flash and the constant light from the studio light while the rest of the image was created using a torch. This however meant that any marks on the back-drop showed up. The studio light was then used to light up the back-ground in an attempt to clean up the back-ground. This gave fantastic colours but it didn’t remove the marks that are a distraction in an otherwise great set of images. I was unable to clean up the back-drop affectively so, I won't be using the images for the final submission. The image at above is my final submission. It came from the 2nd set of the day. I love the images from all the sets on the day but I feel the qualities are undeniable. The warm tones in the image are due to the longer shutter time used. the ambient light helps to create a warm tone in the final image.