Week 2 Studio

My second time in the studio was so much better than the first week! We knew what we wanted to do and what we wanted to achieve. We all got ready and set up the studio in record time as we knew what had to go where and how to set it up.

We started off the same way, one person was the model, one arranged the model, one arranged the lighting and the reflector and then we had some one taking the shots.

Studio set up

This time the lighting was a hard light so we bounced it off the white wall to get a reflection on to one side of the face, adding structure and shade to the face.

We all loved having fun with this as we all knew we had to practice certain things, such as, the front face on image, side profile image and a jaw/cheek side of the face.

We changed the lighting around facing it up and down and further back and further forward to see the different images we could get. Which ones worked really well was when the light was facing the wall and the light was reflecting off the wall on to the face but we also used a reflector as well to get the extra shine on to the face making the eyes pop and the lips look really good.

We all had a really good time shooting in this studio, we got two of the girls to model together as well which proved tricky as the light was shining on the wall still so one was lighter than the other but the reflector was a really big help, lightening up the other model to make her look just as good as the one nearest the light. We all swapped over and got some really, really good shots!

We then changed studios with the group next to us. They had a hard light too but theirs was shining straight up to the ceiling, so no light was coming from anywhere apart from the reflecti0on from off the white ceiling. 

At first all the shots we took were really dark as we didn't know we had to change the settings on the camera until Chris came over and showed us.
Once the camera had been changed we could see a huge difference in the brightness. It was so much better and we could definitely see that we was doing it slightly wrong at first. 

In the pictures the dark ones are when we first started in that studio and the brighter ones are when we changed the settings. 

The end shots that we got were really good! We all had this flawless looking skin and out features really popped off the face. They looked really good and I was very pleased with these shots.

I really enjoyed myself in the studio as we had more of an idea on what to do, how everything gets set up and what shots we knew we had to produce. I liked the first studio lighting we worked with as we could change that to get slightly different looks with changing the lighting but in the second one our whole look looked great. Smooth and flawless but I wasn't keen on just keeping the lighting in one place as all the images start to look the same.

That was the only thing I didn't like that we couldn't change what the image really looked like in the second studio as the lighting was just the same in each shot.

Overall, I loved being in the studio the second time around. We all knew what we wanted and what we had to do so we got on with it and produced some really good images again.