Ass 207 - Task 1b - Advertising concept photo shoot

Once the idea had been approved, the first part of my assignment would be to secure clothing props for the shoot, I was able to secure the clothing with help of local amateur cricketers, 2 pint glasses were borrowed from a local pub and for the final prop I made the discission to use larger beer instead of a darker bitter, I felt that a lighter coloured beer in the glass would give a cleaner brighter look, unlike a traditional brown bitter.

For the shoot I used 2 lights to lighten the background, the background might be removed at a later date to allow for either landscape or portrait use. This way of working would provide a flexibility of image use later on. A single light was used to light up the model, the position of the light was to the front and slightly off to the models right.

The type of pose and the creative idea were discussed with the model and provided an understanding about what type of image I hoped to capture, we also discussed how the session might unfold as we worked together during the shoot. A few test shots were taken to make sure that the position of the lights and camera were okay, I also looked and tested both of my lenses (Canon 50mm lens and a Canon 18-55mm lens) after looking at the test shots I decided to use the 18-55mm lens for the rest of the shoot, I felt that this lens gave me the most flexibility for the shoot. To get the shot I was looking for I positioned the camera at a high position on the studio tripod, slightly above eye level, because of the angle and position of the camera I needed to use a step-ladder, before ladder use I made sure that all safety protocol and procedure was followed.

During the photo session I took just under 100 images, once I had downloaded the images from my camera I was able to take a look at all the images and started a selection process of the images which I felt met with the following requirements; good focus on the face, balanced lighting, good posture, and hopefully a range of characturers.

From the 100 images I made a selection of just 19 images which i felt encapsulated the above criteria, I imported the selected images into Lightroom to take a closer look at the individual images and if I felt that there was a need I could make changes to the colour balance of each of the images, once I was happy i exported them to a new folder on my desktop. These images would be reduced further to only 10 images, then finally I would make a final selection which would then be used and incorporated into the advertising poster.

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Making the final selection I wanted to eliminate the weaker shots and those shots that appeared very similar in both stance and facial expression.
My final choice for the prefered image to be used in the poster was the umpire_ 6. I felt that this image had a good posture balance, and great facial expression.

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