Creative Media: Test Shots and Planning

For my photography project, I had explored ideas and the one that I wanted to go forward with was similar to the Sunil Gupta images with the concept of a place and a portrait.  I was going to venture out to start photographing significant doorways as I had 5 in mind ready for this concept.  However, as it turned out Sunday was a rather miserable day in Leicester with high winds and rain! The rather gloomy shot below reminds me somewhat of Lowry with his industrial images!

Not to be too downhearted about this I did a few shots indoors as the portraits themselves would be domestic.  Here are my contact sheets below, I just did these on a 2 second timer and the settings were monochrome, F3.5, ISO 200, with no exposure compensation to begin. 

The shot of my own door was awkward as I was as far back as I could be in the very small corridor to my opposite neighbours.  My door will be in the as it is very important so this is the shot, but I will see if I can find a way to get the whole door...

The EXIF details for this shot were F3.5, ISO 800, Shutter Speed 1/60. Technically the shot is okay however I do need the whole door as stated.

The other shots were around medication, sleep and reading.  The reading shots did not work so I won't post any here - I wanted these to be at a different angle and closer up.  The sleeping is okay however again these will be reshot

The EXIF details for this shot were F3.5, ISO 1600, 1/20 shutter speed. My camera clearly was on auto ISO as it adjusted to a higher ISO as conditions were quite dull.  Therefore the shot is clear and sharp as it was on a tripod the shutter speed was unaffected by shake. I will reshoot in better light and with more consistent shots for the final images. 

The other shot I tried was the medication shot, This again is okay however I want to work on the angle and see if there is a better way to do this.  I chose this as the medication was in sharp focus - I had a choice between face or medication in focus..

The EXIF details on this image were ISO 1600, F3.5, 1/15.  Again, camera was on a  tripod so the image is sharp. The ISO adjusted to compensate for dull conditions.  I will now just mock up a final piece to see if this idea will work for the final images. 

This is a mock-up and here the door is safety, and the meds are stroke I like the concept and do think this will work - I will now start shooting the images I will use for the final images in the portfolio.  I liked the black canvas but I also tried this out on grey 

I will experiment further with final canvas and colour to see what will work best for final portfolio, I will also write out the concept to add to my website for presentation.