I collaborated with film student Izzy Pye to shoot her headshots for her personal professional practice and use on her social media accounts and website. Talked before the shoot and sketched out some ideas for a creative composition – more than just a standard portrait headshot.
We shot in the rural part of a park with a directors chair as the main prop. It was a bright day but there were cloudy spots where I had to adapt my camera settings. It was a little difficult at times to work without an assistant; positioning a light reflector on trees and rocks and going back and forth to adjust it was a little time consuming. But overall the images came out quite well with only a few dark spots and imperfections that I fixed with Adobe Photoshop in post.
It was fun to work in a natural environment, it looks really nice and visually interesting – its a bit different but I had to take advantage of such a beautiful location on a bright day. When directing her how to stand or sit I mostly went by where the light was then by what was most flattering. Then I moved with the camera to frame the shot. This is because the light was out of my control when shooting on location using natural light and reflectors.
After the shoot we edited the photographs together, picking which we thought looked best, and I fixed patches of light and noticeable imperfections in Photoshop. Later I gave her the exported jpeg files to use as she wished.
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