My First Developmental Shoot

Work Record Date 14/11/12

Plans for the shoot

Today I’m going to shoot in the studio using a fellow classmate. The idea of this shoot is to explore ideas of close ups sections of the human body and face. I want to do this to develop my skills in the studio and to become a better studio photographer and to show body image in different ways. There is always an element of beauty in a person, and I want to develop my skills to show this. I want to show the people that are viewing my work as beautiful and to think about a person’s body as an interesting and a thing that we should explore in more detail.

What I hope to achieve

I would like to achieve a shoot that shows a subtle and interesting beauty in different sections of the human body and how it can look different and beautiful, I want the viewer to have a nice positive feeling of my work, and to think that It is actually good and has a sophisticated way. I want to achieve a good shoot in the studio as I have not achieved this as I would have liked to and reached my full potential.

What I actually achieved

On this shoot I had a little trouble with the exposure, so many of my photographs actually did not come out, as I would have liked when I uploaded them, so I edited and printed the ones that I liked, but I went and shot again. These are the problems that I want to improve on and why I wanted to shoot in the studio, because I am not as confident in there. My second shoot was very small and was a lot better than the first; I got the extra pictures that I needed to achieve the purpose that I was looking for.  

My favorite shot from both shoots was this picture; however my exposure was so bad that it doesn't actually make a good shot.  There is a fading on the collar bone, this is hard to edit out, and does damage the purpose of the picture; however it does give the picture a mystical and clean picture. This does show a sort of angelic beauty to the picture. This was my best idea and is a beautiful picture, but there are some flaws visible. If I could get this model again I would love to redo this shot as it would be beautiful with the right exposure.

With my extra shoot I caught on film what I was trying to achieve in the first place, but without the technical problems, this is my favorite of this additional shoot. The simplicity of the photo makes it that much more beautiful. The ‘cropping’ or selection of just one small part of the face means that you can see a little of everything, and know what it is, but you don’t get the whole picture. This picture shows what I wanted it to, a simple yet effective way of showing a person’s own individual beauty.

What I am doing to do next;

This next shoot that I intend to do will actually develop from just the beauty, as to the beauty in different people, such as different ethnicity’s or different ages or even different body shapes. This shows the beauty of many different people in many different ways, everybody is beautiful in their own way, and I want to capture this on film. I still want the strong core of beauty running through the shoots though, simple close up shots of my models will show that beauty in the simplest ways.