24/11/14 - DECON/RECON PROJ. (Shooting)

Contact Sheet I - Caroline Wong

As shooting took place in the evening when it was dark and cold, we faced a number of problems. The first was that the lighting was near impossible to get right for the first 30 minutes or so. As I was having to use makeshift lighting such as car headlights and torches, I employed the use of reflectors to try and make the light go further but they didn't prove useful in the end. Eventually however, I managed to capture a number of shots that I thought could be used.

Another problem I encountered was with my camera as it was becoming increasingly temperamental. As we were running on a tight schedule, I was forced to quickly think of another means of photographing the photoshoot and ended up having to film and photograph on an iPhone 6. Whilst this obviously meant that the resolution of the images would be compromised, I liked the grainy effect that was left in some of the images and for the film footage, the darker clips tied in remarkably well with my vision for it.

Were I to do the shoot again, I think I would try to shoot in a similar location but with enough space to set up studio lighting (I would have also used studio lighting had I been able to take it out to a location). I would also try to document the shoot using film photography and had I had more time and the facilities to do so, I would have liked to have converted the images into black and white photograms to experiment with placing colour on the images manually through hand-painting. I think that hand-painted photos that are originally black and white have a romantic and somewhat ominous feel to them which would have tied in nicely with the images I produced.