Photoshoot 2: : School dance studio

For my next photoshoot I wanted to keep it fairly simple in order to begin experimenting with ideas that would help inspire my other shoots. This also gave me an opportunity to get a better understanding of each individual subject and their own style of dancing; this meant I could capture and manipulate their movement in order capture and snapshot the best type of images possible that relates to their own strongest area of genre. For this shoot it took place in our school studio which is a natural environment and a place where they all feel comfortable to perform in; they were to wear something that they might be wearing to their own dance class, this would further the idea of keeping the images as naturalist as possible. In addition, for getting the images I used both a flash setting and a plain setting, however the best type of photos produced were the photograph where flashed was used as it highlighted and illuminated each of their faces and the type of movement they were doing. After taking the images I opened them on Lightroom which enabled me to sleeted the best images to use for my photo book and final printing. Looking at my photographs I decided to edit some of the images and use black and white shades as it truly highlighted the shapes that are created as they dance and therefore shows their facial expressions when they are dancing which shows the emotion concept of the photographs. After selecting the image I wanted to concentrate on I began editing them and then further refined the selection and go to my final images that I wanted to include in my photo book and final prints.

• Subject 1: (Orla)
• Subject 2: (Lucy)
• Subject 3: (Ellise)

These three images ended up being the final images that I wanted to incorporate this is because I believe the use of the flash from the camera on each subjects truly helps illuminate the refinement of their movements and is a fair representation of facial expressions. Furthermore, I went on to editing the images in to a black and white format and laid each original image next to the black and white form of the image, this enabled to show how the temperature and colour of the images truly provide a different in appearance.