Photoshoot

Photoshoot plan:

I had a few ideas for the photoshoot before setting off to take photos, but I prefer working with my surroundings and going with the flow, but I would always have a plan in my head. Above are some ideas that I had for images, however I didn't end up taking them, but chose a different style as this weren't possible in the time I had.

I asked a few friends to come and help me with my shoot, but by the time be got round to it, it was too dark and not enough lighting was present to create some good photos. Therefore, I had to reschedule and decided to use my other friend whose garden was quite large and her house very light and airy.

Abs:

For this shoot, I wanted to take the photos of Eloise Smith, who originally was an electro/folk artist, but due to the product of the photos, is now a folk/alternative singer.

Inside:

I asked her to dress in summer clothes (as I had set the article in summer) and wanted a really natural look to her. I didn't want her to pose too much as I felt candid shots would capture more intense and intriguing images.

These were the first shots taken. I love the colours that are present here; the blue, whites, beige and the natural tan of her skin. The light source is generally from one side, which creates a nice contrast and highlights on her skin and clothes and with editing, will show up nicely. In the mid shot, I wanted to positon her to the side of the frame, leaving space for her to look into and space for text, if need be. I used a high angle shot here to capture the movement of her playing the guitar without it being straight on. I like this angle as it seems as if she is concentrating and is really into the music. The other shots are a variety of close up shots. I really enjoyed taking these as it is difficult getting the focus right and the products are really flattering. I really like how I've incorporated the lines of the guitar into diagonals and the use of colours to frame a shot.

Some of these images would look nice as a selection as they all compliment each other well.

Outside:

These shots were taken just outside Abs's house, against her white stone wall. I had her change her clothes here to vary the colours and show that this is a different mood to the last.

These are my two favourite shots from outside. I love the space that surrounds her in her position slightly off centre. The both provide and show her character and carefree personality. The blues and greys are working well together and though there isn't much lighting here, it can be edited and lightened. The mid-long shots here would be good for any of the pages, really, as they could be adapted easily to fit them all.

These photos are close ups of her face. We were experimenting with using the guitar against her face and how these photos would turn out.

The first three seem quite musician-y whilst I really like the fourth. In the centre of the frame, it shows character and personality, and considering that her face is hidden, a lot is shown about her, even though not much of her, physically is shown. These shots would be good for smaller shots and the article.

Bench:
Here we moved up to the top of the garden to the bench, where I look some high angled shots of Abs, some candid, others not.

I think the contrast between her dark clothes and the guitar is important here as it emphasises the music, rather her being just a random person being written about. I especially like the second and fourth images as the engle in intriging, the lighting is flattering and the positioning against the pole frames the shot.

These were some extra ones that I liked.

I love the detail of the second image and how the eye looks past her body and to the point of the guitar. I like the comical effect of the first image but I am not sure where it would be use within the magazine.

Jack:

After looking through the images taken of Abs, I realised that I did't really have enough variety in my shots and I needed another person to include, otherwise is would be Eloise all the way through the issue.

I chose to use Jack as he has a lot of character and is quite confident and I felt this could be transferred into the images. When shooting these, I had a front cover shot in mind (as the first lot didn't produce one that I could use) so we shot a lot of long-mid shots of Jack and (again) a guitar (but no strings this time as it was from the art dept.)

I really like these low angle shots as they show him to be confident, powerful, superior a d his stance, with the feet apartm seems quite definate. These were taken inside the school, but I really like how the border of the building matches his trousers and a teal colour mixed with grey is seem through all the images. I especially like the

These shots were less effective as they didn't include the nice levels and structure like the others did. However, I do really like how his personality comes across in these and also the focus point on the last image. It is really eye-catching and is intriguing.



With all of these photos, I tried to vary the angles and shot distances as well as position them differently in the frame. Perhaps because Abs was shorter, that the high angle shots worked better for her and low angle shots worked better for tall Jack.

I will try and include a selection of the images here in the magazine and hopefully the photographic style of these shots is similar enough to create a house style through my magazine.