Organisation: Photo-shoot. Lucy Marshall

For my photoshoot, I had organised for three friends, who would have made good models, to come round to my house and participate in the photo-shoot. One of the possible models was unfortunately at work, the other couldn’t make it but i still had one left. In the end, I had no choice but to take all the pictures of her.

                                            

I had already gone through everything i wanted my model to bring; including clothes and accessories etc., beforehand, to make sure that everything she brought would have been suitable. She arrived at my house for 10:00am the next morning, where i did her make-up, her hair and sorted out her costume. I tried to do this as quickly as possible as not to lose natural light.

I then took my model outside, with my brother to help me carry a few props which included my guitar and case, my banjo, an old fashioned suitcase and  a few extra things to ensure maximum potential of the photograph; white sheets (for reflecting lights) and a try-pod. We went to all of the several locations i had planned previously and took about 70-90 in each location. After this, we went back home and quickly looked through them on my laptop, only to reveal that most of them were blurred. So we took everything again, and re-did the shoot. This was a minor setback for us but, however, we carried on.

The second photo-shoot was a lot more successful. So then we changed her clothes and re-did her makeup and then went back to some of the different locations to take yet more photographs.

I was planning on doing a third photo-shoot, with 'lady gaga' kind of makeup and fashion, but by the time the makeup was done, we was losing light rapidly and only managed to get a few shots which im not impressed with anyway. But this can be an important thing to mention in my 'selection and rejection' process.

As for the other two models, they are still unsure whether they can make it or not, so I’ve asked my brother to model for me in an upcoming weekend, ready for the contents page designing period.

I also attended a local open mic night, and took some of the different acts performing there. The lighting was very dim, so most of them were thrown away (or are not going to be used) but i did take two or three which i am happy with and which i will be using in my magazine.

Lucy Marshall.