Digital Image Production x booking out a studio.

After being inspired from a recent studio lesson with Chris, me and two other girls in my class decided to book out a studio and experiment. When experimenting our focus was mainly on recreating our own beauty portraits inspired by sources from Google images, Vogue and other beauty advertisements, we had found on our phones. We began with naked lighting and no filter or effect over the light e.g. Umbrellas or reflectors. The lighting we chose at the beginning created a really nice contrast affect to the first girl who volunteered to model. The lighting enhanced her cheekbones and the rest of her facial structure but, we decided something was missing and wanted to add something more interesting to the portrait, this is were we began playing with reflectors.

The beginning poses we began to shoot, mainly consisted of featuring the hands in the shot so, we played around with the silver side of the reflector so that the fingers and shape of the models hands became enhanced and more of a focus point, alongside her face. We then began to play with the inclusion of movement in the shots, this consisted of getting the model to move the opposite way of the camera or towards the camera so that the photographer could get a good shot of the mid moment of movement. We instructed our model to let her hair loose from the bun she was wearing and use her hair to create more movement in the images. Our model faced directly at the camera, her face down to her chest completely in the shot and then instructed her to begin moving spontaneously alongside moving and flicking her hair with the poses.

At first It was quite difficult  to capture her face completely in the shot, and the first few images we had managed to take were mostly shots of her half in the image or just her hair in mid air. Because of this, I asked the model to move backwards more playing with the position she was in of the camera, and then instructed her to create the same movements as before. This worked slightly better but I felt that these types of photographs were not my favourite, I think that It would take a lot of practice in general and better communication with the model to capture the movement perfectly. After experimenting with the movement shots we began taking interesting beauty portraits which consisted of the model sitting down under umbrella lighting and in between some light bouncing boards. These created really beautiful lighting on the face, I was the model for these shots and after observing some of the pictures captured I saw that the lighting we chose rally enhanced and brightened the skin on show of the model. I would use this type of lighting again to experiment with creating my final images.