Evaluation

I was really happy with how my images came out, before and after editing. I tried my best to take a whole range of different shots so I had a variety of things to pick from and I chose the ones I liked the best. I chose my images depending on how the image and composition came out, what my model was doing as I had to pick three different angles of the face and how the image looked over all - e.g, skin, the facial expression.

I was really pleased with all the images I produced, I feel as though I tried my best to set up the studio, pick my composition in which to create the looks I wanted to. I know what I wanted to produce and I feel as though I have produced exactly what I wanted.
For both my images I wanted soft dewy skin and the lighting had to be not too harsh on the face to produce something too bright. I made sure the make up on the models were how I imagined them to look on the photos, so they would have highlighted skin, contoured features and the lips or eye brows to be perfect. This helped me out in post production because I know I didn't have to edit them too much, the skins perfect minus little things I had to change, the lips and eye brows were also perfect too so I feel as though my make up helped me out a lot by not having to do so much post production.

The colour images I had a picture in my head of how I wanted them to turn out, olive skin, glowy and the pink lipstick to stand out off the skin.
The black and white images I wanted them to look dark and a grunge feel, yet the skin and features be perfectly made up. The face to be contoured slightly and highlighted so its glowy under the lighting.

When editing my pictures I found quite easy when I knew what i was doing becauseI have never used photoshop before. The lesson with Chris was really helpful for me as I feel he explains and shows us how to do things in an easy way and if we have questions he will happily answer them. He told us two use three different tools on our images and I made sire I used all three of them on each picture.
I didn't use the tools too much as I said before I wanted the make up and composition to be the best I could make it, so my images weren't changed a lot.

When the images are next to each other with the before and after there isn't a big difference in the images but you can see the difference in the skin glow and a little more contour to the face.

Overall, I feel really pleased with how all my images came out, I feel as though for my first time in a proper studio, with proper technology and equipment I did the best I could and I have learnt a lot about working in a studio.
I feel as though Chris has provided a good background knowledge for me to progress on to better things, with his background and his work he is really good to talk to if there is a problem. In the studio when we are practicing or he's teaching us about different lighting, depth of field etc, he makes it sound really easy for beginners to understand and so now feel quite confident in setting up a studio and taking pictures - which is what I did for these images.

First Set of Images -Colour

Today I got a model and took some shots to get my final images, this models colour was pink, so I decided to use these pictures in colour.
The composition I used for these images was with a hard light next to me reflecting off two reflector boards, as the side of the studio was all black. using the white sides the light was able to reflect off them and shine on to my model.
I also used a silver reflector in my shots to add some glow in to the images.
I got my model to do a few different looks, using her arms and hands, looking and turning in different directions too.

These are some of my favourite images that I took, these ones are un-edited.

I was really pleased with how they came out, changing how she used her hands and arms made al the images really interesting and I love how glam she looks too. The make up which I did was very bronzed and sun kissed and the pink lip stick adds a little colour to the images with the white back ground too.

If I was to do this shoot again I would like to have a studio which has a white wall next to me, like we did in the practice sessions as then I don't have to spend extra time getting more equipment read which I didn't know I needed.
Also, I had to change my light three times as the light wouldn't work, I even asked the technician to make sure I was doing it correctly but it turns out the bulbs just needed changing. This was quite
annoying too as that took over more time and my model was waiting for me to be ready - even though I couldn't help the lights not working it was a little annoying.

Over all, I was really pleased with how these images came out and I had fun shooting with her. I cant wait to edit them and see the final images which I have produced.