Photoshoot

For this final shoot, I took photographs of my dad when he had arrived from the pharmacy which I hadn’t planned to do, however the outcomes were good. I think these photographs were important to include in the book because they are a big part of his life. I also took photographs of my dad and my brother interacting to show the male bond, which I had intended to do. At first they were both resilient, however after they agreed  to let me photograph them. I didn’t take many photographs as I could feel that they were uncomfortable with the situation.  Although I think I was able to capture their bond with the few photographs.

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I choose the best photographs from the photo shoot to include into my photo book. Before this I edited them by decreasing the brightness and increasing the contrast. I also experimented with different tones, I then added some more blue to some of the photographs which were a little bit yellow. I decided to put the photograph of my dad holding the pharmacy bag in black and white, because although it looked good in colour I thought that the black and white in this image could represent the thing that is holding him back (his illness) from working and doing the things that he wants. I tried to make the photographs of my dad playing football with my brother the same colour so that I could use them as a sequence in my book. I am happy with the overall outcome of the photographs below.

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