Shoot 4: Hairdressers
Prepping for this shoot was difficult and nerve racking. I was suddenly overcome with nerves to ask to photograph outside of the studio and in a hairdressers where I knew no-one. I feel like I've been stuck in the studio working with individuals that I know and so I became comfortable in my surroundings, which then wasn't helpful when I needed to talk to people I did not know, and work with the photographically. It took me some time to bring myself to ask around hairdressers and barbers to do this shoot, and thats why it seems like a small amount of work in comparison to my studio shoots. However, I got the courage to ask in a barbers in the centre called Grades, where they were more than happy to donate collected hair for my still life images and let me take photographs within the store.
The shoot was partly successful, in the fact that I am really pleased with some of the images I have created, mainly the ones of feet and hair on the floor. However, due to the lighting all of the images are quite orange-y toned and they do not sit well next to any of my studio work because of this. They were also taken hand held and so are not all precisely in focus which is obviously not on. So there I will try to reshoot these, alongside shooting in other hairdressers and barbers. This barbers was a very small shop, with a lot of people stuffed in and so it was difficult to take a step back and look at what I found from afar. Feedback wise, this was commented on, that I need to move back, try and get everything into the image, consider my framing and perhaps shoot with more of a purpose. I agree with this feedback and will take it onto my next shoots. Obviously this is the first shoot of the interior of a hairdresser (apart from summer shooting) and so therefore this constructive criticism will help me develop this side of the project, which I will now focus on throughout the term break and on into the next term and ESP module.