For this shoot i wanted the location to be in my garden because it was easier to control the background. I wanted to take pictures of my parents to contrast against the pictures of my friends in the later sections of the book. I used the same selection process in Lightroom with the colour labels, but this time it was easier to select my final images as I already knew what specific images i needed them to work with. I had individual portraits of my dad as well as both of my parents, and I also took a few images of the strawberry plants in the garden because they’re just begun to bloom properly.

I was working with fading sunlight at the time so I only took about 50-something images.

Then I got them down to 15 images that i felt were worth going through and editing. My editing process has also stayed pretty much exactly the same throughout the whole series: only correcting minor flaws and improving technicalities in the photos, as well as tweaking the colours slightly sometimes to fit better with the theme and the other images. Below are some examples of the before and after of a few images.

FINAL IMAGE SELECTION-

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I’ll probably only use three or four of these images and will have to use trial and error to see which fits best, but the image below I know i’ll use for sure. Of the images taken with both of my parents there wasn’t one that had them both in the right position and properly focused, so I decided to use Photoshop and splice two image halves together. This was pretty simple and it didn’t take long to produce the final product, and i think the end result is fairly seamless and natural-looking.