Contact Sheets

My fourth photoshoot was my smallest, this was mainly due to an idea which I had while in school, these were taken in the studio so that I would be able to have a neutral background to each image.

Sub-Selection

I have used the same selection system as I have in my previous photoshoots, i have used the ‘p’ key to white flag the images that i will be editing and the ‘x’ key to reject the photographs that I wont be using in my final images. As this was quite a small shoot it was quite easy to narrow down which images I will and wont be using.

Editing

In the whole shoot I only made two images black and white as I wanted to enhances the saturation of the colours from the subjects hoodie. The two top edited images are both similar portraits which I wanted to have in different formats as well as showing more of the subjects clothing and body on the right. I have again used a similar editing style so that I will have a cohesive set of images which make a smooth flowing photobook when they are finally presented. For both the black and white images and the coloured images I have decided to decrease the exposure an slightly increase the contrast so that I create a darker background to each photograph while enhances the different tones and colours in the final image.

Final Images

Below are two of my final images in a landscape format, the left photograph is a classic portrait with the subject looking at the camera, posed while the right image is of the subjects back as i wanted to show the different dimensions of the subjects clothing. I like the contrast between the two images as the right image is full of colour which stands out against the dark black hoodie and light grey background, where as the left image in black and white but still conveys a lot of emotion.

I have as got final images from this shoot in portrait which are quite similar to each other but their are either using different subjects or facing opposite ways. The image on the left is interesting as the pose tells a small story behind the photoshoot, the subject looks like she is looking towards another camera and someone has got a different angle. The two other photographs are back shots i wanted to highlight the designs of the subjects favourite hoodies which they have mentioned in their questionnaires. I turned the middle black and white as I felt that it fit better with the different tones and shading. I also had the subject in the last image have her hair behind her as I wanted to capture the details and texture which was one of the reasons I kept in in colour so that the brown would be enhanced by the lights.