As my first shoot was not as successful as I had hoped, I attempted the same shoot again. The difference this time was that there was more natural light available which I thought could improve the quality of the image. I was shooting during golden hour, so the sun was providing very bright light in my subjects room. I had him positioned directly in front of the light in order to get a better exposed image. As the light source which was directly in his room was not very big, I chose to just shoot images of my models face, instead of getting him to pose. This would enable me to make the most of the light available. To take these images, I used my phone camera as I was quickly able to take images during golden hour, instead of having to set up my camera and potentially missing the light. When I was shooting the images, it became evident that the issue was still the connection in the call which was causing the image to become pixelated and blurry. This made the image very bad quality, and not useable for my final piece which I was disappointed about. I have edited some of the images to try and improve the look of them. To edit the images, I opened them on photoshop and cropped them all to be square. I then added a camera raw filter where I was able to reduce the texture and increase the clarity. I then added a levels filter where I adjusted the brightness and contrast in order to give the images more depth and dimension. As you can see, there is a shadow covering part of the image which I found to be a distraction, but it was too large to erase. As the images give of a very serious, pokerfaced style, I thought they may look better in black and white. After giving the images a genetic edit to improve the quality and brightness of them, I added a black and white filter to them where I adjusted the red and yellow. The images initially looked a bit flat, adjusting the colours allowed me to bring back the shadows and smaller details. I will ask my peers if they think the images look better in black and white as I may try this style again. Despite the shoot not going to plan, this gave me the idea to try working differently. As I was editing webcam images to try and improve the quality, I found that this did not really work. I then thought that instead, I could get my model to take their own pictures (with directions from me), and then I edit them in a way which slightly increases the grain and pixilation, to look like it was taken during a video call. Therefore, I would have a better quality image, which still looks like it could have been taken during a video call. This still fits into the concept of adapting in order to still work with a model to do a shoot.
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