Plans for the Shoot:
Today I am doing another personal shoot exploring the very festive theme of Halloween. I have brought in a carved pumpkin, some sweets and fairy lights. I am going to use the dark blue background as this will contrast nicely with the orange of my pumpkin, and will give a 'dark starry night feel' to my shoot along with the fairy lights.My main aim of this shoot, is, using the fairy lights and the sweets, I want to evoke a very sweet innocent emotion, but to contrast it with the scary connotation surrounding pumpkins and Halloween.
Along with the dark blue background I am also going to experiment with the Boom to strengthen the use of lighting in my work, but this may not necessarily work with the fairy lights, so for now I am just going to experiment.After I have finished the shoot I am going to download and edit the images, before continuing with a few outstanding work diaries I have left to do for progress check.
Shoot Evaluation:
Despite my initial thoughts on this shoot, the results came out like nothing how I was expecting, due to the problems I experienced through shooting. Firstly, there was a struggle with setting the camera properly because I was using fairy lights in the pumpkin, which was having an effect on the flash, and the brightness of the preview images on the camera. In the end, I had to set the aperture to 16 and a 1 second shutter speed, which meant that I had to use the stand for the camera as the results would have blurred because of this slow speed. This limited me quite a bit as I wasn't able to frequently change my angle and height, as I wanted to experiment a lot with some more extreme close-ups of the details on the pumpkin. I also initially wanted to create a very autumnal feel to the shoot, but the table and white cloth I was using didn't look very special in the images, meaning I had to use an all black cover over the table, which overall made the images darker. Although this created a new contrast of light and dark, it took away my initial contrast idea between the orange colour of the pumpkin and the navy background. Nevertheless, I have some images which I feel I will be able to work with, and I am also going to create an animation. This is definitely giving me something to work with in the future and to create an all new shoot.
The first image is my favourite from the entire shoot, because the editing was really effective - I had to use strong curves to darken the edges around the pumpkin to allow the centre to 'glow' more. I think whilst my initial 'contrast' for this was to be horror and fantasy, or good and bad, through the use of the 'scary' pumpkin and the fairy lights, there is also a much more vivi contrast of light and dark.
The second image I was looking forward to seeing because I preferred the composition as it showed more detail compared to the first image for example. However, when I experimented with the levels and curves, the colour of the pumpkin became too strong and there was no distinct contrast between the 'glow' and the actual pumpkin, which I didn't like. I think to improve this I might experiment with a black and white filter to give it a spookier effect.
The first image is my favourite from the entire shoot, because the editing was really effective - I had to use strong curves to darken the edges around the pumpkin to allow the centre to 'glow' more. I think whilst my initial 'contrast' for this was to be horror and fantasy, or good and bad, through the use of the 'scary' pumpkin and the fairy lights, there is also a much more vivi contrast of light and dark.
The second image I was looking forward to seeing because I preferred the composition as it showed more detail compared to the first image for example. However, when I experimented with the levels and curves, the colour of the pumpkin became too strong and there was no distinct contrast between the 'glow' and the actual pumpkin, which I didn't like. I think to improve this I might experiment with a black and white filter to give it a spookier effect.
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