Test shoot for Editorial Pastiche shoot.

So today I had my test shoot. It was important that I tested the makeup, costume, lighting and camera settings to get the exact image I wanted. I had spoken to Chris a month previously about what kind of lighting I wanted and I showed him the photo thats included in my previous design posts. He talked me through what I needed to do. This included creating a light box that creates almost natural day light. Surrounding my model with light. After speaking with Chris I decided to give this a try in my test shoot. 

1. I began with pulling down the white back ground and Putting up the poles to the ceiling. 
2. I then attached the brackets to the poles and attached the large rectangular light reflector. 
3. I then put 2 large reflective boards either side of this. 
4. This was all placed next to the back wall to create a light cove. 
5. I had a tall light over the light reflector with a beauty dish fitted. This was the light source. This light would then reflect off of all of the light reflectors and boards. This was connected by the sync lead (connecting the light flash to the camera). 
6. I set the camera up about a metre away from this. 
7. The computer was next to me and connected to my camera with the tether cable. so that I could change the settings and see what I was doing. 
8. I used a 50mm lens, SD Card, Hot shoe adaptor.
9. Camera setting were: Manual, Daylight, Raw camera image, ISO 100, Aperture 1/160.
10. I altered the aperture if needed to create the brightness I was after but only after changing the light settings either by, turning the power up or down on the over light. 

Outcome and thoughts:

I'm really impressed with how this came out. I love the skin quality and how the white feathers softly blend with the back ground. Its soft and angelic which I love. I will have to see if I can create some contrast between the headdress and the background as this is an important aspect of this shoot. I'm also really pleased with the way the skirt, bra-let and headdress came out. They go so beautifully with the jewellery and I really feel you can really see my design ideas and how they have developed. I'm really excited to see how this shoot comes out and I really feel that this will be a strong photograph to go into my Portfolio. This project has really inspired me to design some new shoots and develop my technical skills in photography.