For this shoot I knew I needed to focus more on portraits, specifically of young people, and I wanted to take advantage of the good weather and the particular light during the few hours before sunset. I used a few of my friends and we went down to St Brelade’s in the evening.
The bulk of the images totaled about two hundred images, so the process of going through them took a little more time. I used the same process as before, starting off my colour coding the images I wanted to carry on with in yellow, and then going through them at the next step and flagging them as “pick” or “reject”.
After filtering out the yellow images, I went through and flagged them as “pick” if i wanted to keep them. I based this on whether they were the best of two duplicates/similar looking images, whether they fit in with the idea of my final photobook in my head, and whether they used the same sort of technique and style as the artists I studied.
This left me with 16 final images to move on and begin editing.
During the editing process I didn’t change much, only minor corrections which were easily made in Lightroom, then exported the images in with the rest of my final images from other shoots.
In the end, I think it was a good idea to take portraits with this light and in this location, and the candid nature of the images make them feel natural and conveys the emotions felt at the time pretty well, in my opinion. If I had to change anything I would probably have tried to do some more traditional, posed portraits, but I have more time to do this so it’s not a big issue.
