Netley Abbey shoot

Inspiration for the imagery I want to create at the Netley Abbey shoot comes from photographer Alexey Titarenko. His images incorporate a lot of blurred effects creating a ghostly and dreamy like feel to the imagery. His work is often photographed in black and white which is intriguing. I plan to do a shoot at Netley abbey which is a ruined late medieval monastery. I feel I could create some really interesting imagery within the rooms of the medieval monastery and also outside with the monastery in the backdrop hopefully creating a similar affect to Titarenko's work looking very dream like concentrating on this blurred vision and state of the unconscious state of mind. 

I found out about Netley Abbey from my photographer she had done a shoot here before and because she knew the theme of my work agreed it would make a perfect backdrop for an image needing my kind of atmosphere. We prepared for the shoot and I made sure the model was ok to still come and that she was not going to let me down. The photographer was concerned how we would create the movement effect without any lighting and also out in the day light but we decided we would figure it out when we got there as there was no way of us carrying the portable lighting along with all the other equipment. It was a beautiful day by the time we arrived at Netley abbey which meant we would struggle to create the low shutter speed effect outside without the camera going to bright. The styling was a big element to this shoot as it was more about the figure and the background I had taken a few different options for clothing and styling so I could create a few different changing images while on such as good location. The make-up and hair I kept very simple with a dark lip and smokey eye and I done this before we left for Netley abbey so I had less kit to carry with me. 

We got 10 minutes into the shoot and hit a major issue for some reason the SD card starting displaying an error on the screen and would not less us take any more photos saying it had to be reformatted. We transferred the images to a laptop and re formatted the card and started again, still the card would not work and the photographer did not have a spare card. I thought the shoot was ruined and then realised I had brought a spare camera along with me and luckily had my SD card also this was so lucky as otherwise we would of had to of scrapped the shoot. we managed to carry on the shoot with no other major issues. 

The end result of the shoot was ok it had not turnout exactly how I had planned and wanted with the shutter speed cropping up as a problem. There were a few images I could use but I had to add the ghostly movement effect I wanted in post production. I only really had two images I really liked but edited a few different ones in hope I may have some more options. In the end I edited one of my images with a moving effect transforming the background to black and white and keeping the girl in colour with the yellow jumpsuit that I had used which I felt worked really well in the image. This image was my favourite and I was really pleased that I had managed to edit it myself below are a few more images from the shoot that I have also edited that I quite like. For the book I think the only image I will end up using is the yellow ghostly one I have edited, I planned to use some still images that I took of the building and surroundings in the book also. If I had more time I would of defiantly re done this shoot and planned the entire idea more.