Shoot 2

2^nd shoot, and its terrible! I just can’t seem to shoot a roll of film and get all the images perfect and exposed correctly. This is the main thing I wanted to get out of this as well. Produce beautiful contact sheet. However seems to be harder than expected. I think that I may have been a bit too sure of myself when shooting this roll as I haven’t really thought the images through. However this is where I imagine him, this is what I vision when I think of my dad so I think I am going to try again to get this shot.

 

This image was possibly the hardest image to print ever. It was either too light or too dark, I tried so many times but I just couldn’t get it right so I cheated and decided to scan it in instead. Above is the scan and below is 2 of the prints that I did in the darkroom. I really like this image too I just wish that there were maybe more light on the subjects face and this would be one of my final images. I really like the stance of the subject, the way that he’s stood in the shed doorway, blocking your view of inside, so you wouldn’t know, I like the shadows created by the fence, and the crop of the image. So annoyed about the light on the face.

Was thinking about overall layout and thought that maybe capturing images such as this would make a really nice story if I placed them together with other images from the same shoot? To show my dads passion and what he is into. Just a thought I had while on location and something that I might consider later when I come to that stage.  

So lighting inside my dads shed was appalling. And this image trying to get it at this exposure was sooo hard! It’s so dark and really no lighter tones in the image. Maybe next time put a studio light in the shed. Or maybe have him facing the other way so that the light that is in the shed is on him.

When shooting the image I thought at the time that it would be too dark so what I decided to do was take my dad outside the shed and have the same pose, with the bird in his hands, this was so that the natural lighting would capture the features in both my dads face and also the bird too. However I think that this image now looks too posed and doesn’t have the natural look I was hoping for. I am finding this really hard to get right, hopefully if I do another roll of film I might be able to get a better image or better idea of if its going to work.