First shoot

My intention for this shoot is to take photographs of body parts of my subject that could include body art, which includes parts such as the neck and arms that could include tattoos, photographed in a couple of different angles, as well as parts such as the ears that could include ear piercings, I will do this to get a feel of how to photograph these parts of the body, what will look good and what won't. I will also photograph the piercings and tattoos this subject already has to add towards my body of work.

For this first shoot I photographed images of my chosen subject, following my plan and photographing body parts to experiment with ways to photograph certain body parts once I get into photographing subjects with body art. I feel that doing this as a first shoot will help to develop further with my shoots and know how I will photograph these things, it has helped me to experiment with different ways of doing this, so that I can go into it with an idea of what I need to do. I feel that in terms of what I planned to shoot, I have been successful in photographing images to achieve my aim, whereas in terms of the images being lit successfully etc I have been unsuccessful in achieving the correct exposure within some of the images that I came out with. Many of them could of been a lot brighter, by using different camera settings and more lighting. Overall, although the images were not correctly exposed I have achieved my intention in what I wanted to do within this shoot.

From this shoot I have chosen two of my favorite images to edit. In photoshop I used the raw file to boost up the exposure to balance the image to the correct brightness etc, I gave them some contrast, vibrance and saturation. I used tools such as selective colour, creating a layer adjustment, to brighten up certain colours and tones within the image. I also used the spot healing brush tool to correct anything that needed correcting. I used photoshop and all of these tools to edit the picture making it look more successful and appealing, giving it the correct exposure, brightening up the colours to bring more colour into the image and making it look less dull as well as adding contract, which all contribute to making this image look a lot more successful. I chose to edit these two images because I feel that they are the most successful images from this shoot, they are composed well and meet the intentions of what I wanted to achieve and taking these images further and working on them in photoshop has helped me to develop further in achieving creating successful images.