My last photoshoot is in the grey dunes, further up the transitioning sand dunes. I set up my camera on a tripod to make sure all of my images where in focus. I would also use the self timer tool on the camera as I would be the model in the images. I planned on wearing a black dress and continuing that outfit throughout all of my images, again using myself as the model. The camera setting were very difficult to set up due to the movement of myself and the marram grass, so I had to use the autofocus tool in order to make sure all of my images came out clear with myself as the focus. Within my images, I had some of myself crouching down in the grass, mimicking the images at the beginning of the book where I was crawling out the sea. I think this would be a interesting concept as I am crawling my way through dunes.
After taking all of my images onto Lightroom, I was able to start picking and rejecting images using the P and X keys. Many of the images wherent up to scratch as it was extremely difficult to take images of myself as the model. I think that the images that came out good where extremely beautiful and really exaggerated the movement of the grass and wind. I think that the black dress contrased will to the yellow grass and sky as the darkness of it brought attention to me as well as the landscape around.
After flagging and rejecting my images, I went through and rated all of them out of 5 in order to start refining my decisions and options. I also used the compare tool ( shown in the image below) on Lightroom so that I was able to look at two similar images to decide which one had better composition and focus. I later decided on the two images below to end the pages of my photobook. I think that their symmetry and focal points where the best and that they made very interesting and elegant images. I gave them 5/5 stars and used the filter tool on Lightroom so that I could only view them, which would make the editing process much easier to do.
Out of the two images below, I decided on the image on the right. It was more in focused however, I took the photo into photoshop in order to fix the straps on the dress. This was a quick fix using the smudge tool. After this process I took the image back into lightroom in order to colour correct the images to black and white. I also chose one of the photo that didn’t include myself as the model in.
EDITING
During the editing process I decided to make the images Black and white like I specified in my planning. I cropped the images to my desired proportions and angled the images so that the horizon line was exactly horizontal. I started by editing the image on the left by increasing the exposure and contrast to accentuate the highlights and shadows in the black and white. In the image on the right, I centresd myself directly in the middle, bringing focus to the model. I also increased the black so that the dress I was wearing was more visible. I copied and pasted the editing process onto the image on the right to keep the tones consistent within each photograph, I plan to to this to the rest of my images.
ALL FINAL IMAGES
I think that this photoshoot was very successful. I am very happy with the images that I produced from the shoot were very unique and well-edited. I think that all of the compositions of the photographs are very centered and symmetrical so create an interesting image to look at. Although, next time I would definitely make sure that the editing process is more interesting. I would have liked to have experimented more with day/night time, weathers, coloured lights and outfits possibly. Even though the images are interesting, I would have definitely have liked to take more inspiration from artists and photographers.