A. Portraiture Framing – I think I’ll come back to testing different frames then add it to this blog because I’m not fully confident with it just yet.
For some reason, I only got full-body portraits and didn’t notice till now so yeah definitely need more practice with it. Next time around I’ll add the methods that I’ve researched like making conversions related to the subject and worldly topics, small talk is relevant as it’ll relax the model. I also will research and learn the different frames you able to do when taking portraiture.
In the two images above you can see that the left is of Ben looking out into the distance and in the next one, he looks directly into the lens. I asked because I want one picture of each person I find to look in the lens to create some humanist tones in my photography book.
I was mistaken, didn’t notice but there were three other portraits in shorter frame sizes and all I did was slightly correcting with crops to make more straight.
B. Fast Movements – This was a test for myself to see if I could take images of moving objects with at least shutter speed noise/blur as possible.
C. Survey Tester – With the model from A & B Practices (Benedict) I made a test survey so I was prepared for the next day which was the first shoot of the whole project.
EXPLAIN HOW IT WENT
D. Editorial
This is an example of the type of simple easy edits I do with slidders for a RAW image. If I include more edits to any images I’ll show proof in this Practices blog.
Beforehand Afterwards
E. Familiarising with the Sigma 10mm f2.8 EX DC HSM Fisheye lens (Nikon) before planned skate culture idea. Tavistock’s outside area, one model walking so I’m able to get used to capturing the fast shots with this particular lens.
F. Nikon Speedlight SB-700 Flash Gun is an extra experiment for adding lighting to the frames when needed and if it goes well I’ll consider for other ideas it might seem useful.
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