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On Tuesday 26th February I had a free day in collage with no lessons, the week prior I had planned to conduct Nick Franchers photoshoot in the stables on the collage grounds. In here I started by setting up all my studio lights and kindly my friend Millie gave me all her time to use her as my main subject. I began the photoshoot experimenting with a black backdrop, around 30 mins in I realised the dark contrast wasn’t working that well and didn’t look the way I wanted to switched to white. When creating the drips I had already gone through the trail and error process using many different substances like honey, oil, water with gelatine witch eventually lead me to hand sanitiser. Using hand sanitiser I squirted it onto an old  COVID-19 and manipulated to drips the way I wanted, I found this was the easiest and cleanest method. This shoot was conducted over 4 and a half hours, throughout this time I had two other friends come and be subjects but didn’t really use any of their photographs in the edited outcomes.

 I conducted three photoshoots for Luis Antinioi Santos and I did these from Friday 15th march to Sunday 17st. At the beginning of the shoots I was trying to figure out a set up that would work closely with Luis’s series, after attempting with a stretched bed sheet I figured out wallpaper or an unpainted wall would work best. Eventually, I found a small area of wall up in the loft of my house that was getting work done to it, I taped the curtains to try reduce any light seeping into my shot and set up my tripod. Using long exposure in this way is something that’s completely new to me, it took me a while to figure out what the perfect exposure was for each subject in par with the movement of their heads. In this collection of photos I wanted to have 3 – 4 different models in their own separate montage witch I did, and I loved the way it turned out. Additionally, Some constructive feedback I could give to myself is my use of lighting, I used my phone torch on different settings depending on the subjects complexion, although it looks ok I think using a studio light on a low setting would have helped with the sharpness of each model and the picture as a whole. 

When taking pictures for Lucas Simoes I wanted to take at least two shoots in different locations, so I began by doing a studio shoot in collage, on Tuesday 9th April. I conducted this shoot in the photography hall and used both a black and a white backdrop with different subjects adding to the variety of my captures differentiating them from one another. When editing these in camera raw I thought I had possibly done to much in just the studio, additionally I regretted using the white backdrop so much and wish I utilised the darker one when capturing the two male models. Nevertheless, after assembling the page I was very happy with the way it was presented, and the white contrasted well with the darker images.  

Moving onto the second shoot I did for Lucas Simoes, on 12th April,  I wanted to incorporate a younger set of subjects, so I went to fletcher moss with my friends youngest sisters. I took a series of pictures in different settings, around a church, in a graveyard and amongst greenery, I took these as straight forward portraits as I really wanted to focussing  and emphasize the features on the girls, like their eyes, lips and hair. To finish the shoots, I also conducted one at home, with my younger sister on my house porch witch I included in the series.