Practise shoot distortion and effects

These are some of the practise shoots I done at the beginning of the project with one of the photographers that would be collaborating with me for my project. I wanted to test using a slow shutter speed and long exposure, to capture images that were slightly distorted and had various movements within one image to see what effect I could create without using photoshop, it also allowed me to see how the photographer worked as I had never worked with her.

 This was an idea I felt needed to be tested before the shoot as I had no idea how or if it would work effectively I created a mood board with various images on that I showed to the photographer and we tried to see how many of these we could create purely with the camera effects and lighting so we knew when it came to actually shooting the final look what was achievable. It took a lot of time to work out how to get parts in focus and also how the lighting should be especially to capture images 3 and 4  experimenting also with materials such as netting, sheer fabrics and light and dark colours to see how this would work within the camera effects and if they would pick up. 

Issues discovered when doing this was the camera having a mind of its own the camera would not stay in focus on the face within parts of the shoot, and also with using slow shutter speed it was one of them things that could either work really well or not it was just about not giving up. I discovered that this shoot could either work or not work when coming to the final outcome but if it did not the photographer said she could always create this effect in photoshop if worse came to worse.

I am glad I practised this idea as it made me realise it is achievable without editing solution and it made me realise that I had to really plan it especially if I wanted to create it on a location as this could be harder to create without all the lighting. I plan to use this effect on my first shoot 'obscurity' and see how I could make it work with some of these images.

Mood board for the practise shoot