Shoot 9

Work Record
This shoot was a practise for a shoot I want to do in my 15hr exam. I want to create black and white images inspired by David bailey because I think I want to but coloured flowers over the top of the peoples faces to create an interesting effect. I will increase the contrast, lower the saturation, to make the  shadows as harsh as possible. I hope to achieve about 5 images which show different compositions of the face. I will do this by create different angles of the face and the angle in-which I hold the camera.

Preparation:

• Camera
• High tripod 
• The strongest light

I thought this shoot well because I achieved four images thatI am happy with and show different compositions. The two images above I thought I edited so it was black and white however they both have slight tints of colour and this is not what I was going for. I an happy with the first to images but the first one is the best. I believe I have achieved my aim of practising what I want to do for one of the shoots in my 15hr exam and I am happy I looked at david bailey because he inspired me to do the shoot  in the 15hr exam. Creating interesting shadows was more difficult them I thought so I am happy I know which ones work and which ones don't. 

When editing these images I changed the levels and curves, lowered the saturation, increased the contrast and some things to the individual images. I found this this worked to create the whiteness of the face and the black for the dark shadows too. I changed the levels and curves for the individual images because some had more light then dark and more dark then light so I wanted to try and balance them out.  

Overall I am happy with this shoot and now I know which composition work best and how to create the effect and this will give me more time to shoot and not worry about what I want and what works.

This image is the best one out of the four I create because it shows the outline of the face and it shows the harsh contrast of the shadows and the light section of the face. I think her glasses creates a nice contrast to the image and highlights the direction she is looking. When editing this image I had to play around with the levels and curves to create the strong contrast of the white and black. I believe I cropped the this image so it was tighter around her face but also so it showed all the dark and light areas. I don't think this image is good enough to be in my top 20 final pieces because I think its looks to simply but for what it is I really like it and I think some of the images I create in the 15hr exam will hopefully be better. 

This image is my favourite composition because her face is off to the left side of the image but you can still see the other side of her face. I think its the most interesting and the most affective composition but I didn't execute the editing for this image.  I did make the image black and white but I think I lightened the image using the brightness tool on photoshop and this create the shadows lighter which looks odd. I think I should re-edit this image to make it better. The image on the left is the new image and I think the editing is better and I think this image works better. 

I am not sure what I want to do for my tenth shoot but by next lesson I hope that I have a clear idea of want type of image I want to create.