Live on Location - Fashion shoot with Talia White

Live on Location 

Fashion shoot with Talia white

 within the Live on Location, we had a workshop with Talia White, this was using outdoor and how to photograph with the natural surroundings away from the studio where the lighting can be control, but not all shoots will be produced that way. 

The Shoot

By working in small groups, we each planned where to shoot around the College Campus. the spots we had picked was the College's swamp and the back of Tudor Grange house. these two spots allowed us to work with the surrounding given and where the light naturally hit either through trees or over tops of a building. 

planning into equipment and execution of the shoot  

To help with the shoot on location, I planned with the weather, by checking the local weather reports to see where the sun was going to be positioned at the current time when taking the images. this would help work against shadowing, over or under exposure. 

For the contrast of the images against the weather, i will be using a neutral density filter, this will help  equalise the sun's light and make no changes to the colour in the capturing image. 

all this will be shot using a DSLR camera, Nikon D3000, this will help keep control when the sun changes position as well as movement from the model and myself. 

Contact Sheet 

With using a ND Filter, and having natural lighting from the sun, my exposure time will be 1/30 1/50 1/80, this is mainly to where the sun is sitting to the surrounding of the model. 

analysis of images and making the right selection 

The images i have taken could do with improvement, however some images are fine, with minor mistakes but from these mistakes i can make the correct changes into making the images stronger and more outstanding. 

The changes needed to the images will more looking at focal, composition and exposure. this is mainly to avoid any images been cut down in the frame to where you lose a really good image or making it more filled within the frame to avoid gaining to much image waste and the eye is drawn to the model instead of the background. 

A lot of the improvements is aimed towards exposure and frame work. making more contact with the model will help draw the attention to where it should be. to avoid over exposing my images , the changes made would be to work against the light of the weather, if the sun has moved, and it becomes more cloudy, then a smaller aperture would be required to let little light in but open enough not to make it look dark to lose detail, this will help keep the model from blending into the background. 

Some of the images needed more of filled composition to the frame of the camera, this means i should have checked both ways, landscape and portraiture and be quick into making the right decision to get the best outcome, this will cut down time into having to many images of the same style. 

making the right choices of the images, I went through them into checking composition, exposure, style of image, will it draw in the attention and the clear focal of the image. by making the right choices it would help plan the final outcome into post production and applying the correct editing processed before final submission. 

The final selected images 

evaluation on the images 

searching through the contact sheet to select the final six images. I wanted the images to show variety while flowing together, keeping this woodland theme either in the background or framing the model. The images flow between colours, and the composite of the model, each showing different positions to the surroundings.

Each image has had the same editing technique, this has allowed me to keep them to the same contrast and saturation allowing the images to not look over toned but natural tones. 

overall evaluation

Evaluating the Fashion on location as a whole from planning to selection of the top four images, there is room for improvement, as Fashion is not my strongest skill but by working more to the frame of my camera and carefully selecting the right aperture, i was able to learn and understand that being more imaginative to how the model is positioned, taking charge if something else is required such as a small adjustment to how the model is either sitting or standing but also the position of her hands.

The areas of improvement would be not to hold back in to taking a small charge of how i want my image to look, work more to the composition, this can be by researching some ideas for location, to look into compositions or camera techniques to the weather, making quicker adjustments to either my own position of the camera or the composition itself.

for future improvements, i will take more understanding by planning more in dept to keep a note on weather, make the correct aperture and shutter, make minor sketches on what will work and what will not work, this will help to keep more to a brief and produce the relevant images that is required by the client.

I am happing with my own achievements into stepping out of my comfort zone and produce a shoot in fashion on location and photograph with more natural surrounding and lighting. I will take on board what went wrong and put more practice into my work and build more into the images and follow a more planned out plan.