Photo Workshop

We carried out a photo workshop to test out lighting and shots that we could possibly use for our ancillary tasks.


Before the workshop
Before the workshop we had an idea of how we wished our shots and images to be but didn't really know how we would carry these out in order to get the results we had in mind,


After the workshop
After the workshop I now know that the use of a solid colour background, in our case black, this makes it easier to edit when it comes to editing, this makes it easier to extract the image from the background if this is needed.
Also using a reflected light rather than a key light straight onto the person or object is what we need to think about using as it is not as harsh and makes the photo fit in with the noir theme we are hoping to achieve.
The use of multiple light points is another thing we are going to use when conducting our photo shoot for our ancillary tasks as this give an image more depth through shadows, this defines the image better and makes it easier on the eye.

These are some of the images we produced at the workshop, from the beginning to the end in chronological order.

  To begin with we composed a mid shot, we found the image was too dark although the use of shadows were not too bad and wanted this kind of effect.

The second image we took we changed to a close up as this is the kind of shot we wish to use on our poster, we attempted to brighten up the image using the ISO, We made the film speed higher from 800 to 320, we saw that this was too bright and eliminated the facial features.

 The aim of the third shot was to have the image darker so we brought the LED light in which we were using to create shadow further away from the subject this did help but the image was still too bright and was not what we intended.

The fourth image is clearer and lighting was getting better. This enables all of the subjects features to be shown and created shadow on background. Although the background was too focused and too bright this will make it harder in the editing stage to extract the image from the background.











Finally at the end of the shoot we managed to gain a shadow effect on the face.