For my second photoshoot responding to my personal study project, I chose my entire family this time to be the subjects. However, the manner in which I took these images were different from my first shoot, as for this shoot I chose to take photographs with the aim of capturing candid moments, rather than staged ones. These photographs were taken at my family’s Christmas dinner. This was a result of both being one of the only times in the year when we all get to see each other, as well as being an occasion many associated with spending time with loved ones and making memories. I only used the artificial lighting already provided in my house with no extra set ups for this shoot, again presenting the candid nature of the images. This lighting however I did find hard to work with, due to it being quite dark with the subjects in movement, meaning it took some time to adjust and alter my camera settings to fit the conditions. Here I ended up using a high ISO, mid to high shutter speed and small aperture.
Image Selection
Here I started selecting and narrowing down the images I wish to edit by first flagging the images I believe are of good quality, using the ‘P’ key to do this, as well as flagging the images I don’t wish to develop, using the ‘X’ key. With this I discounted images that were perhaps too dark or over exposed, as well as some which were blurry due to the movement of the subjects.
After I had gone through the 170 photographs that this shoot was comprised of, I then filtered out all the images I do not want to edit and went through the ‘P’ flagged images rating them out of 5. Here I was able to see which photographs were the most interesting composition wise, and would best be able to communicate my narrative.
Once I had done this, I filtered through my photographs again this time choosing to look at the ‘P’ Flagged images rates 4 and above only. Here I was able to view the best products of this shoot. Finally, I narrowed down the best of my images by colour coding them, with green being my strongest photographs and yellow as the weaker ones. This allowed me to select images that showcased a variety of poses and angles making singular composite pieces.
Editing
