Photoshoot Plan and Contact Sheets

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Photoshoot plan

PhotoshootLocation/settingLightingShot TypesIdea PropsEquipment
1 – pictures of grandmother (2 shoots)Grandmother’s house – in a bedroom, hallway and dining room, using windows, and plain backgroundsNatural – using window lighting, to create shadow and reflectionsMacro, headshots, half body, full bodyIdentity – generational identity, identity in her home, age identityPersonal objects, jewellery, braceletsCamera – portrait lens
2 – pictures of found images StudioArtificial Birds-eye Generational identity, age identity, the passing of timeWhite paper for the backgroundCamera, trigger, copy stand
3 – pictures of mum My house – windows, bedroom, lounge and kitchenNatural, using window lighting to add shadow and dimensionMacro, headshots, half-body, full bodyGenerational identity, age identity, identity in the homeJewellery and personal belongingsCamera, possibly tripod, portrait lens
Photoshoot plan

In my photoshoot using the copystand, I want to capture images from above, with evenly lit images, which I will then crop in lightroom as part of my editing process. In all 3 portrait shoots, I wanted to capture different shot types. I wanted to take some classic headshots, with natural lighting, as well as close up, abstract shots which only show certain parts of my subject.

After taking my pictures, I will import them into lightroom, with different collections: one for close up abstract pictures, one for headshots and one for wide/full body shots. I am planning to edit my pictures in the style of both Bill Brandt, and also photographer Luigi Ghirri. After these edits, I will experiment with collage and montage in style of my main artist, Joachim Schmid. These will inspire/ make up my final outcomes and final images that will then we printed and presented.

Luigi Ghirri

I love the grainy, vintage-looking editing style both these artists use, which will help me to edit my images to a similar style to my archival images of my mum and grandmother.

Contact Sheets

After taking my images, I imported and filtered my images in lightroom.

Here is my contact sheet for my copy stand pictures – this was an overall successful shoot. – In some of these, I used a birds eye view at home instead of the copy stand, which sometimes produced unwanted light. To combat this in future photoshoots, I will only use the copy stand in the studio. This will ensure constant lighting, with no unwanted reflections or light. – Lots of images had duplicates so I filtered these out to find my favourites using P and X tools, then cropped the images.
An image of our set up on the copy stand.
One of my contact sheets from my first shoot of my grandmother. In this shoot, I had trouble with grainy images and ISO levels – to combat this in my second shoot I used better lighting and changed the ISO settings and set the camera to manual. Due to this photoshoot’s issues, I decided to do a second in the same place, which was much more successful.

One of my contact sheets for my second shoot of my Grandmother – this was my more successful shoot. I shot with better lighting, a portrait lens and with different ISO settings which reduced the grain that I experienced in my last shoot. This shoot was more successful because of the changes I made, but also due to the weather being better for shooting. I will keep this in mind for future photoshoots.

One of my photoshoots from my second shoot, of my mum. In this shoot, although there were some successful images, I found that the lighting was difficult. I tried to use different lighting, and found that with the lights off, the pictures came out less yellow, and less blurry. I also had trouble with shaky images in this shoot, and to combat this in the future I would use a tripod or balance my camera on something to keep it steady. Overall though, I think this was a successful shoot with some outcomes which I liked.

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