Overall evaluation of Shoot 2
Once again I felt prepared going into shoot 2 having an image in my head of what I wanted to achieve and an understanding of how i wanted to achieve it. Having my camera on a tripod to cause as little vibration as possible with my models on two chairs with the intentions to in some of my images having the models sat on each other however having trialled this in the end it didn't work because of the camera wouldn't focus properly with one model at a different height than the other. I decided to paint the models face each using two colours only different colours on each of my models this proved to be a success and failure the success being it enabled me to see which colours looked best on the chosen ethnic background compared to shoot 1. The outcome of this is that in shoot 1 green really stood out on my mixed race model however in shoot 2 with a model from a different ethnic background the green didn't work as well as shown below in some of my first images. Which meant before I continued I had to add more paint to make it stand out, and also to act as more light for the camera to focus on. The camera faced more difficulties in that it had two people to try and focus on which meant I found it hard to know what to set the camera to focus on in the end i set the camera to focus on the left hand side models inner eye as this seemed to work best.
Getting the models to do different poses which I had planned to do getting them to look in different directions proved to be successful also having the models having there heads together touching also worked well specially when i got really close to them the only problem with this was that the eyes couldn't be focus for the camera as they couldn't be seen as well, so for this pose i decided to change the focus point to the lips which worked well as the camera liked the focusing on the boldest colour in the image.
The main problem which I faced in this shoot was that the UV light wasn't strong enough to light up both models which made the images a lot darker than Id hoped which meant i had to change the exposure in photoshop to allow the images to be light enough. Looking forward to if I choose to do two models again I will instead of buying a UV bar light i would buy a stronger UV lamp which would allow the images to be lighter and light up the models more. If this wasn't a possibility I could buy another of the UV bars and this would be enough as one would light up one model and one would light up the other. Lastly I would have allowed more time in which to take the images because my models only had a certain time frame and i didn't appreciate how long the paint took to do on two models which limited me on how many pictures I could take.
Overall I am pleased with the final images which I have chosen and edited i think that the viewer would be able to relate them to my intentions. I have learnt a lot of techniques and practical considerations which i will defiantly plan for next time if i decide to use more than one model.
Below are all of my images in contact sheets separately will be my final images from this shoot edited and evaluated. (for this shoot i took around 250 pictures in raw)
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