For my third photoshoot in response to my personal study, I once again chose my whole family to be the subjects. Although for this shoot I took the photographs in a staged manner of family portraits. I chose two locations for this shoot to provide myself with a variety of images that somewhat resembled several archived family portraits I had viewed. These included an inside domestic setting, taken in the living room, and an outside pastoral setting, which was taken in the dunes near St. Ouens beach. For the inside portion of the shoot I used both natural and artificial lighting to capture these images, as there was not enough natural light to allow all members to be seen clearly. With this I used a both a medium shutter speed and ISO, as well as a small aperture. After moving outside to take pictures, I used only natural light as it was within the golden hour, providing large amounts of warm lighting to the portraits. Due to this, I used a fast shutter speed, mid to low ISO and a mid to small aperture, for these outdoor images.
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 out of focus, as well as photographs in which my family did not all have similar facial expressions.
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. With this I found that the photographs I had taken outside were my strongest due to the warm glow of the golden hour.
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 determine which of the photographs that were of high quality but too similar to each other, were the best out of them.
Editing
