Shoot 1 (The Garage)

Shoot Plan

WHAT: Take some images of his garage where he kept his mini highlighting details and his tools. Also the spare room where there are trophies and stuff he won. I want to capture the details around the house where he lived, and his my Nan who still lives there.

WHERE/WHEN: In my Nan’s house and in her garage. During the day so I can use natural light in the house to take the photos.

EQUIPMENT: I am going to use my Sony A73 with my 35mm lens to get the wider interior shots of the house and of my Nan. For the details I will use either the 50mm or the 70-200mm zoom lens to really isolate the the details I am capturing. I want to use window light for most the interior shots of the house and not use the ceiling lights as they are a different colour and make the photos look really dingy and colour contrast with the cool window light. For areas where more light is needed and definately in the garage I will set up my SL60W light with a softbox. I will put it off to the side of the work bench and point it down onto the desk as this will cause some nice shadows.

Initial Shoot – Test

I took these initial images as I was already visiting my Nan’s house. I wanted to see what the lighting is like just from the ceiling lights. I wanted the chance to edit these images first and see whether I need to bring a light when I do the proper shoot. I am happy with these imaged but I think they are lacking contrast which I can get from using an artificial light.

Edited Images

I am happy with the outcomes of these images, I didn’t want to completely change the images but rather enhance the old look and make them look aged.

Edit Process

Using Lightroom I first adjusted all the basic corrections to get the image to a good starting point and correct things like exposure, shadows, highlights and white balance. I desaturated the image slightly to make it look older. I raised the shadows and decreased the highlights to try and increase the dynamic range.
I used the an S curve on the tone curve graph to add a bit of contrast. I then raised the blacks slightly to make the image look more filmic
I added blue to the shadows to make the image feel colder. I did this to for documentary effect as no one is using the garage anymore so there is not life in it. I then added orange into the highlights to try and balance out the cold.
Because I had added in a lot of blue into shadows I needed to compensate by lowering thee saturation of the aqua and blues. I also tweaked the other sliders to make the image look more realistic.

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