Shoot Three - Work Diary

This shoot consists of 2 photographs of three boys and three girls, I wanted one of everyone deadpan, and one of everybody smiling. 

I was inspired by Thomas Ruff for this shoot, he does a deadpan style for all of his portraits, and although I like this style, I wanted to see the contrast between both deadpan and smiling for my shoot.

Exposure: 1/125 seconds, F stop: f/8, ISO: 200

This is the worst photograph I took during the shoot, the camera settings weren't right due to me not using the light meter straight away, the vignette effect isn't very subtle which ruins the effect of the photograph. Furthermore, the light was hitting the side of the subjects face caused a lot of shadows to show up on the models face and shirt. Overall, I am not very happy with this photograph and I will probably recreate this shoot at a later date.

Exposure: 1/125 seconds, F stop: f/13, ISO: 200

This is the best photograph I took during the shoot, I had used the light meter which told me what to put the camera settings as. In addition, I had moved the model position forwards so that the light wasn't hitting the models face. This improved the photographs immensely. I was very happy with how this turned out as I had to do minimal editing on it to be completely happy, all I did was change the colour balance on the photographs so that there was less redness.

Progression:

During the shoot I didn't place the lights in the right position, this meant that the light was slightly hitting the subjects face, this caused a vignette, I think that this looked quite good at first, however on the third model, I realised that it wasn't coming out as well as I had hoped. I decided to move the seat forwards, this got rid of the vignette effect as well as the lighting on the models faces. Although I liked this shoot, I would like to redo it, checking that the lighting is perfect before I start. In my next shoot I will compare my lighting to a previous high key lighting shoot, this way I will know if anything is wrong before I properly start the shoot. The last three photographs were quite good and you don't see the light shining on the models face like you could in the first three. 

Overall, I think the shoot was a good learning experience, however it didn't come out as planned, so I would like to do this again.