Project 3 Rationale

Why-

For this shoot I chose to shoot my band members and their instruments. This seemed like a really good idea because I will be shooting most of our promotional photography for the band in the upcoming years. I have never done a photo shoot in a studio with a lighting setup before so some of the shoot was very experimental. I wasn't sure of how much space I had to work with and how many people I could work into a shot at the same time. So I messed around with group shots with props, group shots without props, and individual shots with props. At the end of the shoot I ended up liking the individual shots the most. The group shots looked very forced and rigid, which is very different from how we are as a band.

How-

Coming into this shoot I wanted to have the whole group standing around me as i was sitting on my bass kick drum. In theory and in my head it looked really good but once we got into the studio space was a problem. I couldn't get back far enough to get the kick drum in shot and get all our faces too. So i through that idea out the window and just started trying different things. Working with one model is hard enough, but trying to get three semi-ADD guys to stand still was a real challenge. Once I would get one person's shadows under control someone else will have messed theirs up again waiting to take the shot. But i found that keeping everybody laughing and keeping it real casual worked to my advantage.

Critique-

Overall I liked the composition of most shots that I took, except for the entire group shot. We had to angle our bodies in such a posed way that it looked very forced, almost like a senior picture for all of us. So i ended up going with one of the more casual individual shots. I told Evan, the guitar player to throw his hair back and look cool while i was getting the exposure correct and I ended really liking the way it turned out. I feel like hey really looks like a rock star in a guitar magazine advertisement. The levels all turned out well and I was very pleased with the final product.