Second shoot

For the first half of my shoot I am going to do a portrait in the studio. I am going to use a black backdrop and a beauty dish directly above the model, this then creates quite dramatic lighting on her face. I used three black reflector boards, one behind the beauty dish and one in front of the beauty dish, with the model in between the two. I will also have a foam board on the side.

For the shoot I used a medium format film on F.11 using colour film, film speed 125. As well as medium format I used a Canon 5D, using the same settings as above. I was really pleased with the outcome of the photo shoot. I realised half way through the shoot that there needed to be another reflector just in front of the beauty dish as when I was using the medium format camera there was flare which caused problems. I think if I were to do the shoot again I would try out different compositions and play around with lighting a bit more to see if I could achieve different outcomes. I found that I was quite limited with taking beauty shots as it was hard to ask the model to do much with just her face alone to show my idea fully. Over all, I think the shoot could be potentially used for my Final Major Project, I still have to do the second photograph which will be next to the portrait, and now I have to focus on that working with what I have so far.