WHO

Same subject as first photo shoot.

WHERE

Studio to get perfect lighting

WHAT

Extreme close ups of facial features or body parts

One point lighting / low lighting

EDITING

Black and white

high contrast

blur

WHO-

will probably use the same bunch of friends, in order to keep the same main subjects throughout the whole project

WHERE-

i’m planning on doing this shoot in a coffee shop or a similar environment, because it’s a common place for us/people in general to hang out, so it’ll feel natural. again, I’ll be taking mainly candid pictures during actual interactions, but I may also ask my subjects to pose in a couple ones. however my main focus is still keeping a natural sense to all the photos, as if they were taken in the moment.

WHEN-

it will probably be during the afternoon, but because it’s inside there’ll be artificial lighting instead of natural daylight

HOW/EDITING NOTES-

I’ll be keeping with the same editing style in order to retain the same narrative throughout all of my finished images and make a cohesive set of final photos

I tested keeping these images in colour, as there was some lovely lighting in a couple of them that I was torn about keeping or not, but eventually I chose to edit them all in black and white, as per my original plan. I used Lightroom’s “Auto” button to see how the program would automatically edit them, but after that I did change a couple things myself, such as the black and white mix of certain individual colours in some images, to make sure that I got a good tonal range and the same effect in black and white as there was when the images were in colour. I had practically the exact same process for every image, because although they were taken in different places and with different types of natural light, they were mostly very similar in terms of light and exposure.

Below is a side-by-side of every one of my final images form this shoot, before and after I edited them. I was attempting to keep the same sort of casual, spur-of-the-moment sense that they had when I first took them, so the changes aren’t wildly drastic.

Overall, I am pleased with the way these turned out, and although I am planning on editing them in Photoshop later in a more artistic and creative style, I do like the way they look now and how effective Lightroom was as a piece of editing software. Below are all of the images in their finished state:

On the 10th of september 2020, 6pm at ‘Havre Des Pas’ on the pier I am going to take photos of my sister ‘Nadia’ for my environmental portrait assignment.

I have used my sister because she has been there for me through everything. Nadia and I’s age gap is 11 yrs her turning 28 in a couple days and I being 17. Out of my whole family her and I have the strongest bond and growing up together meant we faced every difficulty with one another which helped form the current bond we share.

I chose this specific location because this is one of the locations where she used to take me as a little kid whenever we were both stressed out with home life, school or her job and spend time together just having a laugh and a good time.

I would like for the out come of the images to be moderately bright background with little to no bright colours for example white’s browns some dark-ish blues and then my sister in a bright cheery outfit in the center of the images for her to be the main focus of the photo.

PLANNING: Write a specification that provide an interpretation and plan of how you intend to explore A Love Story. This must include at least 3 photoshoots you will be doing in the next 2-3 weeks (these could include photo-assignments). How do you want your images to look and feel like? Include visual references to artists/photographers in terms of style, approach, intentions, aesthetics concept and outcome. Remember the final outcome is a 16 page photo-zine so you will need to edit a final series of 12-16 images that sequenced together as a set forms a narrative that visualises your love story. 

STORY: What is your love story?
Describe in:

• Love and insomnia.
• Love, heartbreak, self love a personal story about my best friends and how we grew apart.
• A story about a young girls relationship with two boys that have some dark moments, filled with tears, happy moments, good memories and love showing how she dealt with losing both her best friend. Stumbling through life with a smile on her face ignoring and hiding the pain.

NARRATIVE: How will you tell your story?

• Images > new photographic responses, photo-shoots recreation of moments in the story.
• Archives > old photos from family albums, iPhone
• Texts > letters, documents, poems, text messages, words with meaning.

AUDIENCE: Who is it for?

Most image makers tend to overlook the experience of the viewer. Considering who your audience is and how they may engage with your photo-zine is important factor when you are designing/ making it.

• Reflect and comment on this in your specification (age group, demographic, social/ cultural background etc.

In the first edit I used ‘p’ and ‘x’ to filter through 120 photographs I flagged 34 images. I then went onto rating the photos 5 star meaning ‘yes’ 4 star meaning ‘maybe‘. After Rating the photos I went onto colour coding and selecting which ones I would consider my final edits. From them edits I look more closely at them and compare two photos to get the final edit.

In total there were 206 photos I had to filter through them I used a system of red, green and orange: no, yes and maybe.

as there were so many I then went ahead and made another set of contact sheets of the possible outcomes and narrowed it down even more to 175 possible photos that could be used to creat a final piece/oieces.