Curation of the Portrait Project

 I have re-edited 3 out of 10 photographs for the portrait since some of them do not look good, and I ran out of time to do all the re-editings. Here is the link to Google Drive, that all the selected photos and their EXIFs are inside so that I can save up the space here in the blog. All my work was taken with Nikon Z fc and a Nikkor Z 24-70mm f/4 S. 

I used portrait for most of the work, because I thought it would look better than in landscape when it comes to portrait photography. And the other reason was that I am not good at handling portrait photography in landscape. Whilst the setting of the camera are more or less the same, I usually use a lower shutter speed and enlarge the aperture. I tried not to fully use the aperture, since the photographs might not look sharp. The image would not only look so noisy when the ISO is over 1000, but also it will increase the difficulties on editing for high ISO situation, and these the reason why I have to limit the ISO from getting over 1000. However, the drawbacks of using low shutter speed was most of the photographs would look blurry, especially I cannot compensate it with in-body image stabiliser (ibis) or lens vibration reduction (VR), in which both features were not available on my setup. I have used a two-point lighting, locating on either side of the studio in order to compensate the dark environment, yet somehow I think my light settings were not bright enough for me to further reduce my ISO setting. Although the settings might seem alike, different poses and instructions were given to the model so that I can take different angles of photos, including some high angles, which I had to be careful of the setup and the equipment at scene. 

I decided to keep most of the photos for re-assessment, as I do not have so much time to deal with it. But I have decided to remove Pic 6 (ZFC_5467), 7 (ZFC_5103) and 8 from my website. Pic 6 and 7 have to redo the editing, while I decide to remove Pic 8 from the album, since it is not recommended to use and I do not have time to do too much editing. 

Reflection

Time was running out when I was doing my first photo shooting. At first, I was quite confident I can use the pictures but it turned out that was not the case. And when I was doing the editing, I realised that I have left a bit too much on headroom for a quite number of photographs, and not to mention those blurry photographs due to low shutter speed. If time is available for me, I would definitely review my photos immediately and plan for another shooting, instead of just using one single shoot. Through this shooting, I also realised there's an issue for me that I always leave too much headphone when I am doing portrait photography. I have remind myself not to do so again for my next portrait shooting. 

Link to Google Drive

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18yBLq6d9mxM2PqhC0CzW5EQZoQ1Xl9h8?usp=sharing

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