Assignment 1 - Final shot

I will start by agreeing with Valerie, on choosing a very challenging location. The low ceiling, the background, which was a natural source of ambient light, and that created a large problem in relation to our model.

I will try to narrow down the issues I was faced with:

1. Low ceiling which made it difficult to bounce the lights of

2. Mix of ambient light, natural light (coming from the outdoors throughout he big windows we choose as a background) florescent light and tungsten light

3. The focus point / depth of field – the lens chosen for the shoot was a fixed one, canon 50 mm, f 1.4. The aperture chosen for the shoot: F 2.8, shutter speed: 1/200s, ISO: 400 (our target was to blur out the background, and keep the subject in focus) - the subject was slightly out of focus.

I adjusted the camera to the ideal settings for this type of shoot f.8 at 1/160s ISO 400, the result seemed to be the same: subject slightly out of focus.

4. The lighting reflecting into the background windows – requires bracketing and a more complex post production

5. The chromatic aberration around the subject, due to the background ‘source of light

Overall, not totally satisfied with the shoot, and to keep it in a “happy” note I am left with only two samples (not 100 % the best) of my shoot, as my compact flash card has decided it is time to die on me.

It was a bit of a more in depth post production process in order to bring the image to a better quality and apt for a cover magazine

As a final note: It was an experience, I will never choose a location like this one (I had my doubts about it, but…).