Evaluation of Photo's

Photography Evaluation.

For this unit we were asked to become photographers, we learned a lot on how to use the camera’s to get the best photo’s.
I chose to do an engagement shoot, many of my idea’s changed. You can see from my mind map that at first I wanted to do the shoot outside in a park or a quite street with one couple, but I was unable to go outside to take the photo’s because it was raining quite heavily. So I decided to take three couples into the studio, and we just took it in turns to take pictures, I wanted to capture happy moments, so when I saw the couples laughing I just took a picture. I think I captures some nice moments, in a few of the pictures you can really feel the chemistry between the couples.
My photo shoot was professional in they way that I was in a studio, I used a Cannon DSLR 11000, I used and arranged portable lights with Gel Lights to light up the set. Also i attempted to minimise the shadows, I booked time with the couples and styled them to achieve the look I wanted by arranging make up and telling them what to wear. I also editing the photo's in post production by cropping, adjusting and retouching them.
Marianne Taylor is a photographer who does nice styled engagement shoots, I believe my photo's were only similar in the way that we both use happy couples. Our pictures were very different in the way that Marianne's pictures have different things in them such as engagement rings. She has the couples going on a little adventure to many different locations which i would of loved to do.

I am pleased with my pictures i think they look good and not much editing had to be done with them, I had loads of pictures that were not good enough the ones i have chosen were the best ones in the collection. If I had a chance to do it again I would of taken the photo's in different locations like a park or on a nice street with pretty tree's, or had different backgrounds, and I would also of maybe used lighting gels to give the photographs some colour. Also in the future I would like to build a narrative.