Oops!... Deadline!

Well then, the first of our projects is due in tomorrow, not a big one admittedly, but still. Considering I hadn't realised it was due in so soon it suddenly became a big thing.

All it is, is the first part of our work based learning, so basically all that is needed is our photographers CV, our proposal and to make sure that we have an up-to-date portfolio of work on the internet.

Well, the letter is pretty much done, still a tad confused over the CV and well we have this blog and I am also looking at creating an online portfolio somewhere, some sort of website sort of thing so look out for that as I am hoping to get that started soon.

And as a final note:

Why were they trying to Catch The Pigeon??

Studio Shoot

So the other day our lecturer aranged for a model to come into the college so that we could all get some more experience in the studio. So at one o'clock on tuesday our model, Sarah, arrived and the college's make-up department worked their magic to make her camera ready.

Whist 'under the brush' we set up the studio using only one light with a beauty dish on it. We would have the model sat on a chair to begin with and have to black boards situated either side of her, which would cause a slight shadow downt the sides of her face to aid in defining it.

• Using a Canon 5D Mark II set at:
  ISO 100
• Exposure Time 1/125secs (sync speed for studio lighting)
• f/4.5

Unfortunately at this time, I cannot remeber which lens we were using..

Anyways, here are the first couple of images taken:

For the second of these images, the boards that we were using either side of Sarah's face we turned around so that the white sides were facing in towards Sarah. As can be seen, this means that the light reflects off the boards and illuminates more of her face. Also for this photograph, I had someone holding a reflector to cast some light underneith her chin and on her neck. I personally prefer the second image for the lighting which I think is a lot softer than that in the first image.

Also in these images we used another light which was positioned behind Sarah at an angle so not in the shot. Over this light we put a piece of pink coloured gel which, as can be seen, gives a slight pink tinge to the right-hand side (can especially be seen on her hair).

For our other shots we asked Sarah to stand near towards the back of the studio against our white back-drop. As Sarah was not only tall but also was wearing 4inch stilettos, we had to then direct her so that we were able to photograph her whole.

Although not a full-length image, this was my favourite image from this set of pictures:

A New Name..

You may have noticed a change of this page and that the page you're now looking at has a different name. Correct. The name Sally-Lou Photography was created for one of my project for college. The project was a website and blog unit and that was the name I chose to fulfil the purpose, however I have been increasingly disliking the name and so I decided that a change was in order.

Having what, in my opinion, is a rather common name, I decided to play around with my surname and came up with two possible names:

• And Photography
• And Photos

I have decided to go with 'And Photography', I think I just feel better about it. Unfortunately, someone on here has already taken the blogspot address andphotography AND and-photography, much to my annoyance, so the blogspot address is now http://www.and-photo.blogspot.com/ . Still takes you to the same page though so all is good again.

If you think you have any comments or suggestions around the name then by all means, feel free to leave me a message somewhere : )