2nd Shot Results

This shoot did not turn out like I wanted it to or how I expected it to. The results are interesting and although they do show the colours that I was expecting the makeup/facepaint that I used on the model could not be seen very well and so that aspect of the shoot did not turn out too well. The images are also not all of a fantastic quality, I had hoped that the water would be clear but the pool cover had been left off for a long time so there was a lot of drt in the water. I also encountered the issue that the water was way too cold for me or the model to be able to stay in the water for more that a few minutes even though it was incredibly sunny.

I would have preferred to have organised this shoot at a different time of day as well as midday but due to time constraints for the pool owner and my model this could not be helped. This did help however because although the light was not fantastic for shooting above the water I really needed the very bright and direct sunshine for the underwater photographs. Because this was one of the first attempts to use the case for my digital camera under water I was not very experienced in using it, I needed to borrow some small dumbbells to weigh the case down so it could sink with me, because of this it was difficult to handle under the water and even more difficult to handle above the water and some of the settings were difficult to use in addition to keeping the lens cover from creating dark corners.

The colours that make up the images are quite nice, they really help to create the kind of effect that I was looking for but I would have prefered for them to have more structure to them. The all felt kind of flat and uninteresting. I tried to get a variation of different shots due to the low quality of the images but all it did was confuse the results of the shoot, there was no linear storyline to the images, again partly due to not being able to stay in the water for too long. despite my dissatisfaction with the shoot I still took the images in the contact sheet above and edited them all to see if I could get some better results from them.

This is the result of the editing. I only passed them through Lightroom quicky with some small exposure changes, clarity adjustments and on a few I changed specific areas. There was not much that I could do with these images other than this in Lightroom, but I have attempted editing them in Photoshop to see if I can get any different results from some more abstract editing. This experimentation is going to be shown in the next blog post.