Planning for the final shoot:

Location

For the final shoot, I would like to find somewhere studio-like as my practice shoots have displayed the messy lighting in my home will not work out for portrait photography.

During my search for the best location for the final shoot, I experimented with the white curtains for a projector in our home beforehand to see if it would work as a white background.

Issues:

• The curtain did not reach the floor, and the back of the curtains was filled with stuffed animals (MESSY). So I could not photograph the lower part of the legs.
• A little flat and bland.

To solve the second issue, I moved a lamp in our house to serve as lighting, and it worked very well: I could adjust the light area of the lamp to focus on the model, and the light circle was of appropriate size.

The first issue was very tricky because I wanted to capture jumping and motion, which the lower legs will likely have to be included in. I tried moving away the stuffed animals but the walls of the back of the curtains were green and looked slightly horrible in the camera.

I would have to work with this issue as I and my brother could not find a time when we both could stay after school to use the school photography studio. I think if he jumped high enough it would be fine.

 

Poses

For poses, I wanted to re-use the poses that looked well in the practice shots and add some more jumping poses. I looked online for jumping poses I could potentially use for the shoot: