In May of 2017, I asked my friend Catie if she would be down to go to the local park for me to snap some pictures of her. She eagerly said "yes", and even got all dolled up and put on a pretty dress and pretty red shoes. What proceeded was a couple of hours of me trying to recreate typical portrait shots and Catie posing like the amazing amateur model that she is.
My process during the shoot was the same as the previous two: Switch back and forth between the 18-55mm and the 75-300mm lenses and hope for the best. That said, this time I remembered that my zoom lens consistently gives me blurry backgrounds, so I was more intentional about that with my headshots. I also attempted to do more full-body shots during this photoshoot, but I didn't like how they were coming out so I focused on waist-up and headshots.
This is the first photoshoot where I did extensive editing afterwards. With the last two shoots, I had learned how to brighten or darken images and I played around with the HSL tool in Canon Digital Photo Professional, but with this one I discovered that DPP has a clone stamping tool and I used it remove graffiti that was on some of the polls in the park. I do think the fact that my laptop had a touchscreen with an active stylus made the editing process significantly easier, and that ease allowed me to feel motivated to do graffiti removal for multiple photos. It was my first time doing anything like this, and I thought it was so cool that I was able to do this much with a photo.
This is actually one of my favorite photoshoots thus far, because my main goal was to achieve the standard portrait shots that you would see in senior photos, and I was finally able to do that. This was the first photoshoot where I felt a lot of pride in how the photos came out.
My process during the shoot was the same as the previous two: Switch back and forth between the 18-55mm and the 75-300mm lenses and hope for the best. That said, this time I remembered that my zoom lens consistently gives me blurry backgrounds, so I was more intentional about that with my headshots. I also attempted to do more full-body shots during this photoshoot, but I didn't like how they were coming out so I focused on waist-up and headshots.
This photo is one of my favorites from the shoot. I am a sucker for headshots with a blurry background, so I specifically researched how to do this with my camera. It took multiple attempts, but I finally figured it tout and I'm so happy that I did.
I am also especially proud of this shot. When I first took it, I couldn't stop looking at it because I couldn't believe that I was the person behind the camera for it. Now that it's been well over a year, I'm still very proud of it but I definitely see elements that could be better, such as the blown-out sky, the distracting sign, and the fact that I could have made better use of leading lines.
This is actually one of my favorite photoshoots thus far, because my main goal was to achieve the standard portrait shots that you would see in senior photos, and I was finally able to do that. This was the first photoshoot where I felt a lot of pride in how the photos came out.
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