First photoshoot evaluation

For my first photoshoot of my music portrait project I was set up and ready in the studio at 10.30 on Monday 19th November. I set up the lighting with just a honeycomb high up above him to give a lot of shade accross his face as he wanted quite dark/misterious pictures for some shots of just him by himself. Once the drum kit was introduced I used three point lighting as I wanted to capture the flour in the light.
As this was client based work, it involved discussing with the client what they were after and offering my ideas. I exchanged ideas first with all the possible clients and then I chose who I wanted to work with. Then I arranged more details of the shoot, e.g; lighting, props, variety. Benji wanted to have water on the drum kit but this posed a threat to the equiptment and the backdrop so I suggested flour instead as it is much easier to clean up and doesn't cause damage.
After we finalised the details I then found some examples of what I thought he wanted and showed them to him and he was pleased with them. When it came down to the shoot it went smoothly and it was very comfortable. I gave direction well to Benji and felt that I was good at commanding the shoot.

I have edited ten of my favourite shots of him and have emailed them to him.
Some of these examples are;

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1. This image I added a large black area for further editing (writing, information about the musician) I am pleased with the desaturation

 

2. When i first opened this photograph in photoshop it had very harsh shadows from the lighting (shown in the image) so I edited the eyes and changed the contrast, brightness, exposure and edited out some of the shadows.

 

3. I like this image because Benji holding the drumsticks suggests that he is a drummer without the kit being in the shot, I like the shadows cast by the overhead honeycomb lighting and it creates a dark feel

 

4. This is my favourite image of the flour as it's something different to do with a drum kit. Playing a drumkit can look very stiff on camera and the flour adds movement to the image. It also looks great against the back drop.

 

5. This is the same image as the one above except I have double the image ontop of each other, change the opacity on one and desaturated the photo and also added a brown/red colour filter. The double image effect gives it even more movement and I like having only half the image edited

 

6. This photo is in my mind a really good example of music portrait. It shows clearly who the musician is and the instrument but without showing the whole drumkit, it can sometimes overwhelm  the client. You can see symbols, a drum, drumsticks and the musician. The lighting also really compliments the model, I changed the lighting effects on photoshop.

 

7. This image is in the similar effect as what I did for one of my book covers in my earlier project. I took the same image three times and placed it ontop of each other, changing the opacity to create an overlapping image. I then changed the brightness, grain, exposure and colour filter. I think this image looks quite creepy and dark, but I am really pleased with it.

 

8. The original image did not show Benji's head as I accidently cut it off when photographing so I edited another head in from a different picture to make it more noticable who the musician is because the flour looked really effective in this one.

 

9. For this image I used the filter under Lens Correction called Chromatic Aberration and it gives it a 3D effect, I think it's really unique and interesting.