I booked Long Street studio yesterday and I am so pleased with the outcome! Having used the studio last week I knew I wanted to frame my subject slightly differently and I also realised why I was not overly pleased with my lighting- I forgot radio triggers- Oopps!
Anyway I was off to a good start, my model felt more comfortable and rehearsed with the expressions she would be pulling and I also found that taking photos during conversations we were having about different memories/scenarios enabled me to capture a more realistic expression.
This time I used a Nikon D3100 to take the images however as I shoot in RAW I had to convert all the files to JPEG to be able to use them on Facebook and this blog.
I really want to print out some of my favourite images and ask people to decide which emotion they feel it portrays.
During the shoot we watched this video to help us think more about different expressions :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW0PaKOXxQI
As you can see I had to play around with lighting again but I’m really happy with the over all effect.
I also asked my model to turn around and face away from the camera as this would make for a different feel to the images. It is easier to guess the emotion if the model when the viewer can see the facial expression paired alongside the body language, however when the facial expression is concealed it makes it a lot harder to know how the subject is feeling. This is the beginning of the idea I am exploring- how do you know what emotion an individual is experiencing? Sure we can guess by their facial expressions and the way their bey is posed however theorists suggest that there are only four different muscle expressions that our face is able to pull, the rest is only achieved by cultural beliefs. .
