My first photoshoot focuses on the headshot portraits and half-body shot portraits. I used studio lighting to make the images more dramatic, and to easily light up the face.

Once putting the images into Lightroom, I used the flag method to see which images I prefer over the others at first glance, and which of those I did not want to use. I rejected the images where the lighting is too dark as well as the images with poses or facial expressions I didn’t think represented my ideas for the photoshoot as well.

I then used the star rating method and the colour rating method to decide which, out of my favourite images were the ones I wanted to further develop in the editing processes. I decided on 9 photographs which were both taken in landscape and portrait.

Once choosing my most successful images, I used a repeated editing process for the images to look uniform in black and white, with a slight yellow hue to them to create a vintage and weathered look to the images.

Some of my best images