Photoshoot Blog

On Tuesday 15th March, I had my photo shoot. It was booked from 10.50- 11.50, but I only took half an hour, instead of the full hour. The lighting set up consisted of 3 lights. These were the fill light, the key light and the back light with a honeycomb filter. This together acted as a butterfly lighting set up. The key and fill light together make the subject look more angelic, and are also good for photographing women, hence why I used it. The back light with the honeycomb filter adds depth to the photo and creates lighting on the hair, again enhancing beauty. A white backdrop was also used.


Firstly, the model (Carlie), changed into the footprint t-shirt that I had prepared. We then went into the photo shoot room, and I began taking pictures for the front cover. In these pictures, I used a pair of black shoes, with the laces tied to each other so the model could hang them round her neck. I did encounter a problem at this stage, which was that I kept getting the top of the backdrop in the pictures. Chris Warriner suggested that I stand on a step ladder to avoid this happening. By standing on the step ladder, I also experimented with different angles. Another thing I did was asked the model to pull different facial expressions and poses to see which was best for my product.

I then used other props such as straighteners, a tv remote and a mobile phone with its charger. I experimented with all 3 of these to see which would be best for my product. I got the model to hold these objects in different ways to see which would look best. I also asked the model to look into the top left corner of the room. I found that this made her look more innocent, which was the effect I was going for.

When taking the photos, I had to make sure that the framing would be correct for the product, so I was advised to think where the text would go, with each photo I took. I managed to take approximately 80 photos, so I had a lot to choose from when considering the best ones for my product. To make sure the lighting was correct for my product, I turned the fill light down near the beginning of the shoot.

However, I encountered a problem when uploading my photos to the computer. I had run out of memory on my network space, so had to delete some old photos on my drive, and then upload them. I also have to be very careful now, in terms of how much data I can store on my network space.