Plan for third shoot- Plants and Flowers:

This shoot is in replacement for my first shoot as that didn’t work out at all. For this shoot I am going to be buying some plants maybe some flowers just to see what they look like, but I will probably be just buying and photographing different plants. I am going to be taking these photographs in the studio, I will use 2 lights either soft boxes as they are good for even lighting or honeycomb lights if I want the lighting to be a bit harsher/stronger. Again, like the other shoots I am going to be using my Sony DSLR, with my 18mm-55mm lens. I am going to go and buy the plants right before the shoot from Solihull so they’re fresh and not beaten up on my way to college. There are plenty of shops in Solihull to get plants from so I don’t have to worry about that.

Evaluation for plant shoot:

I brought one ivy plant for £1, one magenta celosia plant for £3 and a bunch of pink calendula flowers for £3, which altogether cost me £7. All of the flowers were from Morrisons as I knew that they were cheap in there. I decided to buy a bunch of flowers because most of the plants were either beaten up or dying and wouldn’t look too nice in the photographs. In the studio, I used 2 continuous soft box lights to light the plants and flowers as they gave me simple even lighting that was easy to control. I also used a product table that has a white background that will be easy to get rid of on photoshop. The shoot was a success I got the right photographs that I needed out of it that were eye level or birds eye view and that were also clearly lit.

I am going to do another shoot like this as I need more photographs of plants/flowers. I am also glad that I used a bunch of flowers in this shoot because I think they worked out better than the Ivy and if I think about it now, it would be kind of boring or monotonous to have just plants for my final photographs as they would all be green, just maybe different shades of green so I’m glad I’ve used flowers and I will be taking more for my final photographs.