Plan

Below are my photoshoot plans for photoshoots 2 and 3. They were quite similar shoots, with photoshoot 2 being quite small – so I decided to compile them together into one blog post.

	Location	Theme	Idea	Settings	Props
Shoot 2	St Brelade: La pulente and la moye	Rural Landscapes, abstract photography	Sense of place, hidden locations, identity	Landscape, manual	Camera
Shoot 3	St Ouen	Rural landscapes, abstract photography	Same as the above shoot.	Landscape, macro	Camera

Photoshoot 2

I struggled with weather conditions in this shoot, due to poor planning on my part – because of this, there was often rain on my lens, creating less and less quality images.

As the shoot progressed, I walked to an area which I had envisioned as a good location to photograph and produced better images. I struggled with overexposure in this photoshoot also because of the bright grey skies – this ruined the quality of quite a few potentially successful images and therefore in my other shoots I decided to plan around the weather to improve my images. Even though the bright grey skies were quite inconvenient for me, the recent rain and bright white tones made some quite nice reflections in the water on the roads, where most of my successful images for this shoot came from.

Selections

These are my selections for my second photoshoot – I didn’t have many for this shoot but still selected a few images that I liked the look of to develop.

Editing

Evaluation

This shoot was probably my least successful in this series of photoshoots. I shot on a grey, rainy day, which meant the light conditions were not the best. I chose a location which I thought would be successful, but it ended up being a little too urban for what I wanted – I was trying to capture the intersection between urban and rural life and its connection to my childhood, but I found that the colours captured mixed with the poor light conditions made a shoot that had few successful outcomes. However, even though this shoot wasn’t the most successful, it provided me with things to work on for my next shoots. In all shoots after this, I tried to shoot in the best lighting possible, which creates a much better environment for capturing the strong directional light, shadow and shapes that are crucial for me in this project. Furthermore, I think that this shoot also had a lack of proper planning – I didn’t choose exactly where I was photographing beforehand, so couldn’t visualise what I was going to photograph – doing this often helps me before a photoshoot so I can think of what I am trying to create with my images.

https://www.dptips-central.com/lighting-conditions.html – a website I used as help for choosing lighting conditions for my next shoots.

Photoshoot 3

This shoot was much more successful than my previous one. The weather was slightly better and was developing this shoot from my first, where I photographed the same place.

In this shoot, with two previous shoots done, I had a much clearer idea of what I wanted to capture. I focused on looking at lines and shape in the landscape I was capturing, with the aim of producing more abstract images of higher quality. The light was better in this shoot, but I think that I shot a little too late in the day. Some images ended up being underexposed because of the lack of light, which was a shame.

Shooting in the same location was a good idea for this location – I was able to see it from a different perspective on my second shoot and also take similar pictures to my first shoot here, but with higher quality as I was informed by another shoot and new ideas.

Selections

Editing

Evaluation

I found this shoot to be somewhat successful but also in need of improvement. I think it was successful as I was more purposeful in looking for smaller, unnoticeable things in the landscape to capture, and more thoughtful with what I photographed. The weather had improved from the second shoot, but I found that it still heavily impacted the light quality in many of my images. For this reason, a lot of my images didn’t have the depth and shadow that I wanted and appeared a bit flat. However, I think that my location choice for this shoot was great, as I returned to a previous shoot location that was very important to me. I expanded my area of shooting a little as well, in order to generate a new perspective on the location. With the location being a really important place to me in my life, it made me more motivated to create quality images, to represent my childhood home and its surroundings in the way I wanted. This also meant I was more thoughtful about what I was photographing, as personal connections were involved.

Final Images from Both Shoots