This project is made for a competition "PRIDE AND PREJUDICE" where I have to match text and photos. This also is a tasks from college. I chose a sentence and split it in three parts.
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
The idea to make three shots:
First - dance
Second - step
Third - love
18/01/14
From the beginning, my idea was to make pictures in the Abbey Park in the arch, all three shots. But when I got ready, packed up and came to the place that I did not like the arch. Base it was above ground level by one meter, it was surrounded by a black metal barrier, which spoil the whole look and eventually it was closed. In addition, I realised that I could try to shoot with a telephoto lens, but I do not have that. So I gave up the idea that day taking pictures and decided to look for a suitable place.
I remembered that in the Western park also has an arch. I went there and I liked the arch more. It had the usual barrage of arches, it was in a good location on a hill, and it was opened on the ground level. I liked the arch, but I no longer wanted to shoot in an arch. There was a feeling that you need to think of something else and that there will be quite different. Then I decided to go into the city centre. In my head I already had some ideas, it remains only to find a suitable place. I walked the streets in the city center and took a few shots of my model where I would like us to photograph. My idea was to take a picture of us in front of an old beautiful building, take the first frame, so that it began with the building without touching the ground floor as possible and passers-by. I liked it and I decided to come the next day.
19/01/14 at 12:00 am
The next day I did not have an assistant (my girlfriend's sister) and I have to rely on its own forces. We have come to the places where I photographed last night and again I did not like, I do not know why, but I felt that where I wanted to photograph yesterday, will not succeed for two reasons. I had to take pictures on the narrow crowded streets and I did not have anything on that could get us what we seemed a little higher, as I had previously planned. I decided to walk again, and after half an hour I came up where I will shoot. This place is situated opposite the new campus De Montfort University and meets all my requirements.
Shoot
Had to shoot in harsh conditions. It was cold, the wind was a lot of people passed by and all naturally looked in my direction, a child who was not yet even 14 months thank God asleep. In addition, adjustment of equipment and training, all took a lot of time. I had to do everything myself and be a model, too, and talk to my girlfriend what position she needs to do and to constantly adjust it. Everything was on my shoulders and this has prevented the wind constantly, trying to overturn my tripod with a soft box (eventually he did it in the end). My girl froze. And for dessert, my camera is not always able to speak with flash, because I used the transmitter canon the second generation. But all turned out pretty well. The only thing I was not too happy with my pose, it turned tense and out of me looked bad dancer. But in general, the light, our poses and the background, everything turned out great, I was very pleased. I did what I had planned, and most importantly, in such and such circumstances.
Settings of the camera: speed 1/640, iso 800, f8
Camera 6d, 50 mm 1.4
I used Hi sync to darker background and Photoshop to make more bluer background
So the location of the equipment:
The idea to make three shots:
First - dance
Second - step
Third - love
18/01/14
From the beginning, my idea was to make pictures in the Abbey Park in the arch, all three shots. But when I got ready, packed up and came to the place that I did not like the arch. Base it was above ground level by one meter, it was surrounded by a black metal barrier, which spoil the whole look and eventually it was closed. In addition, I realised that I could try to shoot with a telephoto lens, but I do not have that. So I gave up the idea that day taking pictures and decided to look for a suitable place.
I remembered that in the Western park also has an arch. I went there and I liked the arch more. It had the usual barrage of arches, it was in a good location on a hill, and it was opened on the ground level. I liked the arch, but I no longer wanted to shoot in an arch. There was a feeling that you need to think of something else and that there will be quite different. Then I decided to go into the city centre. In my head I already had some ideas, it remains only to find a suitable place. I walked the streets in the city center and took a few shots of my model where I would like us to photograph. My idea was to take a picture of us in front of an old beautiful building, take the first frame, so that it began with the building without touching the ground floor as possible and passers-by. I liked it and I decided to come the next day.
19/01/14 at 12:00 am
The next day I did not have an assistant (my girlfriend's sister) and I have to rely on its own forces. We have come to the places where I photographed last night and again I did not like, I do not know why, but I felt that where I wanted to photograph yesterday, will not succeed for two reasons. I had to take pictures on the narrow crowded streets and I did not have anything on that could get us what we seemed a little higher, as I had previously planned. I decided to walk again, and after half an hour I came up where I will shoot. This place is situated opposite the new campus De Montfort University and meets all my requirements.
Shoot
Had to shoot in harsh conditions. It was cold, the wind was a lot of people passed by and all naturally looked in my direction, a child who was not yet even 14 months thank God asleep. In addition, adjustment of equipment and training, all took a lot of time. I had to do everything myself and be a model, too, and talk to my girlfriend what position she needs to do and to constantly adjust it. Everything was on my shoulders and this has prevented the wind constantly, trying to overturn my tripod with a soft box (eventually he did it in the end). My girl froze. And for dessert, my camera is not always able to speak with flash, because I used the transmitter canon the second generation. But all turned out pretty well. The only thing I was not too happy with my pose, it turned tense and out of me looked bad dancer. But in general, the light, our poses and the background, everything turned out great, I was very pleased. I did what I had planned, and most importantly, in such and such circumstances.
Settings of the camera: speed 1/640, iso 800, f8
Camera 6d, 50 mm 1.4
I used Hi sync to darker background and Photoshop to make more bluer background
So the location of the equipment:
We stood on a stone rectangle in half a meter in height, behind us, on the right side an old building. I used only one flash (canon 580ex) with soft box (Firefly Aurora) and it all rested on a thin tripod Manfrotto 5001b. The camera is on a tripod which was lowered to the ground as possible and thus the camera is 10 - 15 cm from the ground. All shooting took about an hour, I had to run from the camera to a girl constantly, moreover I also had to bend down almost to the ground ☺. Camera was on a timer, so that also had to wait as statues and watch passersby smile and wonder. In the end this torment was over and we were able to go with a girl to get warm in the cafe.