Shoots 1- 5

Evaluation: I think that the work with fairy lights was really interesting, and playing with blurring and long exposure times added some depth to the images. I disliked the photos of the dogs and I think in future I will exclusively use human models. Some of the sprinkle stuff had a good start but it needs to be built on a bit more and I would like to change the background behind the model to something blanker and with no over-exposure. The end images of distortion added a new idea to the shoot and they were super funny photos. Overall, I think there were a lot of things to improve on and none of these photos were super striking or well done. 

Shoot 2

7/5/24

81 images

Evaluation: 

What worked? There isn't much I like about this shoot, and not a lot worked well. 

What didnt, and how could this be improved? The overall feel of the shoot and more precise planning for photos, theres also a lot of irrelevant feeling photos and too much repetition of zooming in. 

What are you going to do next time to extend your idea? Set up the photos better by picking better subject matter, lighting, focus, and framing. 

Evaluation:

What worked? Some of the lighting was interesting otherwise it was not a good shoot. 

What didnt, and how could this be improved? Overall uninteresting and not useful and some of the lighting was very mismatched to the subject matter and was too dark. 

What are you going to do next time to extend your idea? Choose different and more interesting subject matter that feels more carefully chosen to the theme.

Shoot 4- 

5/5/24 

89 images 

Evaluation:

What worked? The objects matched the images and put focus on selective areas, the colours and patterns, the reflections from the tiara onto the printed photos, the collage background of photos. 

What didnt, and how could this be improved? The lighting and shadows over some of the photos

What are you going to do next time to extend your idea? Move locations to somewhere with better lighting or into a studio with artificial lighting to improve these photos. I don't think there's a lot to extend on here. 

Evaluation: 

What worked? Some of the photos of Dad on the bike coming from the left were good and the idea for the house photos and cars are there 

What didnt, and how could this be improved? The white colour of the sky in a lot of the photos is glaring and there are some harsh reflections on some of the shiny objects. There's also some uninteresting imagery and some of the photos seem fuzzy. 

What are you going to do next time to extend your idea? To get some full body portraiture work of Dad and change angles to suit the lighting better, although shooting at a better time of day would work better.