For this exam Shoot, I plan to implement my long exposures into a studio setting. I am going to be using a studio spotlight with a snoot on it in order to make a small spotlight directed at my subject's face. I will be using both the painted mask and the plain mask in my shoots and overlaying the shots in photoshop.
For this shoot, hope to present mental disorders in the way I did in the previous shoot, as multifaceted and complex, while honing studio techniques such as lighting and using studio backgrounds.
However, here is an image from my shoot that I didn't feel was very successful.
Shot on F22 at 1/6 of a second.
This was one of the last images from the first half of my shoot before I switched to the painted mask. For this image, I had told my subject to shake his head but only a small amount. While I expected the blur to be small with this shot, I still wanted there to be enough blur to distort the image. However, the image came out with a very small amount of blur, so it looked as if I was trying to take a photo at a faster shutter speed but camera shake had effected the image. This small amount of blur meant that the image also appeared to be out of focus, even though I had focused the camera onto my subject's face.
Also, because of the lack of distorted reality as a result of a lack of motion blur, I feel this image doesn't link to my subject of mental health as well as some of my images did. Although it still incorporates the mask to present a mental disorder, I felt that the slight blur of the image weakened the dark mood of the image as a whole.
Finally, I felt the lighting from this particular image could have been more low key. I find that too much of his face is lit up, which was likely a result of bad positioning of the spotlight. Perhaps if I had placed it more to his right, only one side of the mask would have been lit up, creating a much harder shadow than what I achieved.
For this shoot, hope to present mental disorders in the way I did in the previous shoot, as multifaceted and complex, while honing studio techniques such as lighting and using studio backgrounds.
Here is an image from my shoot that I feel was successful. This image was shot with an aperture of f22, a shutter speed of 1/6 of a second and an ISO of 100. This was one of the first photos from the shoot. One reason why I like this is that I feel it links very well to my topic. The image creates a sense of distorted reality, and a sense of there being two sides to a personality, as you can see two faces in different positions. This ties in well with my subject of mental he alt, as people suffering from mental illnesses such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar may experience things like distorted reality and having two contrasting sides to their mind. I also feel this image was a success from a technical perspective. For one, it's exposed exactly how I wanted it to be; it's not overexposed, which I owe to shooting with a shutter speed of less than a second. It's also not underexposed, as this could have been a possibility with using a spotlight with a snoot as your only studio lighting in a dark room. I also like the amount of motion blur I achieved; it was just enough to capture a few stages in my subject's movement but not blur the image so much that you can't make out there is a face in it.
However, here is an image from my shoot that I didn't feel was very successful.
Shot on F22 at 1/6 of a second.
This was one of the last images from the first half of my shoot before I switched to the painted mask. For this image, I had told my subject to shake his head but only a small amount. While I expected the blur to be small with this shot, I still wanted there to be enough blur to distort the image. However, the image came out with a very small amount of blur, so it looked as if I was trying to take a photo at a faster shutter speed but camera shake had effected the image. This small amount of blur meant that the image also appeared to be out of focus, even though I had focused the camera onto my subject's face.
Also, because of the lack of distorted reality as a result of a lack of motion blur, I feel this image doesn't link to my subject of mental health as well as some of my images did. Although it still incorporates the mask to present a mental disorder, I felt that the slight blur of the image weakened the dark mood of the image as a whole.
Finally, I felt the lighting from this particular image could have been more low key. I find that too much of his face is lit up, which was likely a result of bad positioning of the spotlight. Perhaps if I had placed it more to his right, only one side of the mask would have been lit up, creating a much harder shadow than what I achieved.
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